Hunting Strategy Quotes

You don't go hunting for a deer and shoot 50 rounds.

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

I don't know if I'm a clutch hunter, but I'm an avid one.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

Wolves can't catch what dogs do not expose.

Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.