A day in the woods and seeing no deer. Talking to fellow hunters and they are excited atseeing tracks..... but no deer?
YOU CAN'T EAT TRACKS, NO MATTER HOW YOU COOK'EM.
I like the above as well and may start to use some, if only in thought.

My wife always says this to herself right before sheshoots adoe......"meat is meat and we all have to eat"

"I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent."

"Life in the open is one of the finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right."

"I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow."


Fred Bear

"I have hunted almost everyday of my life...the rest have been wasted". --Primos


"And dar he was---gone!" ---Da Thirty Point Buck

Vegeterian, Indian word for bad Hunter.