Joseph Mawle Quotes

I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

If you go out in the woods in hunting season, your going to get shot.

[It is forbidden to] shoot off a gun on any unnecessary occasion except [at] an Indian or a wolf.

I grew up in Iowa, so I would go hunting. I took a hunter's safety course in eighth grade to get extra credit in school.

I started hunting at 5 years old.

My uncle used to take me out at night shooting rabbits.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn't have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.