So after watching endless hours of my favorite hunting videos online it seems like the most popular expressions after coring a deer like an apple are: "Oh my gosh I drilled him", "I smoked him", "I crushed that one", & the ever popular "Dude I worked so hard for that deer!". The bowhunting jargon cracks me up I love it and I was just wondering what are some of you guys' favorite expressions after a successful shot!
Ha ha I love the effect buck fever has on people right after the shot, you feel like you have been holding your breath for about an hour and a half and are about to pass out
I think I have steve snow syndrome! Most of the time when I shoot a big buck, I'm excited but at the same time I just sit their for a couple minutes look around and then it sinks in..... Steve cracks me up, he can shoot a 200+" whitetail and look glum. "Ah I just shot one and yeah were gonna get down and check him out. My first pope and young from 2005 I nearly passed out after I shot him. I guess I seem too serious making sure I put a good shot on the animal and knowing he dropped. I get more excited when I'm walking up on the buck!
My first bow kill and P&Y last year ...I said to myself I smoked him lol...shaking, breathing heavy, heart beating, it was intense even more so cause he only ran 40 yds within sight of me and his bone hit the ground and there he lay. Heart pumps just thinking about it
Without exception everyone that I've been with that drops their first moose says this when they walk up on it; "Oh... My... God!... What have I done?!" Another good one is; "Holy crap! You just shot a brown bear! Don't screw around, Breath, do everything by the book, Breath, go back to camp and get the rifle, Breath, Holy crap!"
Anytime someone says "Rage in the cage" I want to punch my TV. Different people react in different ways when they shoot animals. Two things I don't like are crying and when someone acts excited about making a terrible shot. Neither one of those things has any place in hunting. If you're gonna cry, save your man card and do it off camera.
This is my pet peeve. When you watch some hunting show and it's a bad or marginal hit and they turn around and tell you how they "smoked him"
Right after the shot I either say bad hit or good hit. I hope for good hit everytime, but sometimes things happen. With my buck last year I knew it was a good hit and I must have repeated it quietly to myself about 15 times really really fast. I didn't see the buck drop so after tracking through heavy brush I literally didn't see him until I was right up on him. First words were "OH MY GOD" really really loud followed by lots of cheers. Anybody in the woods would have thought I won an 80 million dollar lottery, when in reality all I did was shoot my first buck that happenned to be a 170 class deer. Emotions are an awesome thing! I can't wait for that feeling again!!!
"Without exception everyone that I've been with that drops their first moose says this when they walk up on it; "Oh... My... God!... What have I done?!" LOL!!
I don't say anything after I shoot. I'm usually a pretty extroverted person at work and in my personal life. I'm the opposite when I'm in the woods or on the lake. I'd rather listen to someone else talk than do it myself.
If I am with someone, I usually say where I think I hit it. High, low, back etc... I save all the good stuff for later in camp. That way I can add alot more to it. "It was like a 120 yard shot on the run and I nailed him dead center!"
