![]() One of the staff told me: “Remember, plenty of laughter, but no shouting.” And do you know, he was right? Very good advice. I had my hair done the other day and when the hairdresser showed me, I said to her: “I could fall in love with myself all over again!” And, last of all, having a good sense of humour doesn’t hurt. There is nothing wrong with passing a 2- or 3-year-old buck, but I try to say something like, “He’s a little young, or he’ll be bigger next year…” With a buck 4 years old or older and pushing 150, I never worry about saying anything because I am too busy trying to kill him.Try to get through each day without hurting anyone. What miffs many viewers is when they see a guy pass on a 4- or 5-year-old 150- or 160-class buck and then whisper nonchalantly, “He needs another year…” The majority of hunters who watch these shows will never get the chance to hunt a private farm like that, and they would damn sure never pass a 150-inch buck in hopes he’ll live another year and put on 15 more inches of antler. He needs another year: This phrase was made popular by TV people who hunt prime, well-managed farms and ranches with a good number of mature bucks running around. It just seems to pop out in the heat of the moment, or maybe he’s heard it so many times on TV that he just subconsciously blurts it. Whatever, we try to edit it out. When a friend or acquaintance of mine goes out with one of our cameramen he knows my rules, but more than half the time when I review the footage, I hear him holler, “He’s down, he’s down…” as the buck runs off and falls. I have 2 rules for people who hunt on my TV show: 1) shoot any buck that makes you happy and 2) do not, I repeat do not, watch him run off and then look into the camera and yell, “He’s down.” I don’t think this term is so derogatory as it is overused. And curiously, it is reflexive for many people who hunt on TV. He’s down!: If I hear another hunter scream this after he shoots a buck on TV I’m going to scream. If you say “rage in the cage” today you’ll sound like a rookie. ![]() This phrase is not derogatory in any way, and it’s still cute, though tired and so yesterday. Rage in the cage: This was a cleaver phrase when it became popular several years ago when the Rage cornered the broadhead market: I put a Rage in the (rib) cage and the buck didn’t go far. And pet peeve, we don’t “snipe” deer we shoot them with a rifle. Plus, the people I know who do choose to hunt do not consider themselves assassins. It is not a stretch for this person to think, “Do these guys go out and shoot deer in cold blood or what?” We don’t, but terms like assassin give the wrong impression to people who choose not to hunt. Thankfully, I have noticed a discernible decrease in the use of this term on TV and social media recently.Īssassin: Some hunters, relatively few I hope, refer to themselves online as whitetail “assassins” or “snipers.” This might seem fun and innocent, but imagine a non-hunter is surfing the web or tagged in a Facebook post and “deer assassin” pops up. That big 10 is on the hit list… Well, we are hunters, not hired guns or assassins. Hunters review hundreds and thousands of cam images of deer and begin to assemble a “hit list” of bucks they’d shoot if given the chance later in the season…. ![]() ![]() Hit list: This term originated in the Midwest and can be traced back more than a decade to the boom of trail-camera usage. Act and talk like you’ve been there, which means avoiding these overused and annoying words and phrases. But some words and phrases are not okay, anytime, anywhere, not in any hunting camp or situation. In deer camp hunters blow a lot of smoke and talk a lot of smack, much of it not appropriate for mixed company.
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