Consolidated Dictionary & Guidelines for Backcountry Hunter dialect

[PNW bow hunter]

All,

PLEASE RESPOND WITH ANY TERMS THAT NEED TO BE ADDED TO THIS LIST. THE HUMOR IS TONGUE IN CHEEK, BUT THE LIST IS REAL

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT MODS MAKE THIS A STICKY POST, SO FNGs AND NON-MEMBERS CAN ACCURATELY DECIPHER AND INTERPRET POSTS ON THIS SITE

Backcounty hunting can be one of the most challenging, fulfilling experience there is.

THEREFORE- It is vital that you use as many abbreviations and expressions as possible whenever you post. This is especially important if you've never actually hunted backcountry or only done so a few times. In such cases, you can shield your actual "FNG" status by rapidly adopting this jargon. Proper use of jargon, abbreviations and terms will ensure that everyone knows you're In-The-Club, and as awesome an expert backcountry hunter as you know you are... perhaps even one of the coolest Bruhs ever... maybe even, dare I say-- an INFLUENCER!?

Mere Mortals may recall the days of the Decoder Ring in cereal boxes, today we have Google and AI. Sometimes, you may need all of these to decipher posts by the cool kids on this site.

At great personal risk, and at risk of being evicted from this site. I offer the following DICTIONARY AND USAGE GUIDE, this will be a work in progress and I will updated these Guidelines regularly, as my time permits and as the Cool Kids language of Backcountry Hunting Studs evolves:

1. HUMBLE BRAGGING- creatively and correctly deploying as many abbreviations and terms from this dictionary as possible when posting and describing your EPIC hunt, KIT and RIG in order to ensure that your mundane life appears as truly unbelievable as you know it is.
2. FNG- "Fuc*ing New Guy"- aka new member to this site. Best known for NOT understanding proper use of backcountry jargon. ALSO: 1) making new friends by immediately asking where to find honey holes, 2) If a 6.5 PRC is good for Grizzly at 1000yds, 3) Posting a Classified Ad for something they don't own, 4) Actually having the balls to wonder why a 30-06 at 2700fps is more deadly than a .308 at 2700fps.
3. BRUH- a far cooler adaptation of Brother. Field Identification feature: Typically RUNNING a Mountain Ops Flatbrim, often with full beard, growler in hand, and RUNNING the newest generation of KIT known to man. Bruhs are often masters of backcountry lexicon, with colorful posts that make sitting on the couch seem like the most dangerous, exciting and self fulfilling thing that ever happened.
4. RUN/Running- THE Swiss army knife of Backcountry verbs and the single most powerful verb in backcountry lexicon, this ONE verb shows that you are indeed a legendary backcountry hunter. It is deployed in place of the verbs "to USE, DRIVE, SHOOT...". Example- "I'm running Sitka KIT, a 6.5 Creedmoor and a Ford Raptor".
5. RIG- You don't own a TRUCK or RUN (drive) a TRUCK. If you backcountry hunt, you own and RUN a RIG. Get over it. You especially do NOT RUN a Subaru, or at least you rarely admit it in public.
6. OVERLANDING RIG- when you drive your RIG more than 50ft off paved road in order to camp.
7. KIT- You don't own gear, you own and use KIT. You are a backcountry warrior, even if the howl of 35lb coyotes makes you wet your panties. Backcountry hunters and hunter wanna-be's are only 1/4 notch below Special Forces and Navy Seals. We RUN KIT, not GEAR, got it!?
8. STP- Sierra Trading Post, discount and close-out KIT available there, often at great prices. Never type out the full name, it takes too long and now that you're a cool kid, you are too important for that.
9. BOAL- "Buck, Bear or Bull of A Lifetime". A legendary elk-bull that you're TARGETING to HARVEST or Have HARVESTED, or worse-- a legendary BOAL that someone HARVESTED out from under you or STOLE.
10. HARVEST- Killing that does not involve blood, skinning, gutting or anyone actually seeing a dead animal. It is the sterile, peaceful death that also overcoming hunting and hunters. Also similar to the quiet elimination of backcountry wintering grounds for elk/deer, as Californian, Washingtonian, hedge fund and other tech-money compels ranchers' heirs to subdivide multi thousand acre ranches located in wintering-valleys into sterile communities of 2nd and 3rd 8,000 sq ft ranchette homes for remote working. Don't worry though, the new Ranchette owners drive electric trucks/cars and have purchased carbon credits to offset their new homes.
11. BUILD- verb, originally used by gunsmiths and fabricators and other highly skilled technicians to describe the skilled effort and work they put into actually making a rifle or welding and fabricating custom truck parts. Co-opted by Bruhs and others that pay these craftsmen to do the skilled work that they cannot so on their own rifle, bow or truck. So diluted and emasculated that the strenuous effort of placing stickers for KIT on the back window of your RIG, qualifies as a BUILD... As in, "I spent hours on the interwebs Googling and looking for the perfect Kuiu sticker for my BUILD. It was exhausting." Use the BUILD word with pride and toast yourself with a cloudy, sour microbrew.
12. SPIN UP/SPUN UP- a more mature way of stating the you're paying and contracting someone to do your BUILD, rather that plagiarizing or co-opting their effort as if you did the BUILD. Use-case- "I'm having a CF "Carbon Fiber" barrel SPUN UP for my PRC.
13. Eyes-On: Backcountry hunters know how dangerous their TARGET Animal can be. So dangerous that they never see it or spot it, they GET EYES ON IT. Why? Because well, like sniper teams know, it might just shoot back.
14. Manufacturer Broadhead Names- these must be the most fearsome of all possible names, sounding so deadly, that the mere whispering the broadhead's name at the animal will cause it to fall over dead, like a fainting goat. Also critical that the edges of said broadheads have WICKED serrations. And that the broadhead be as WIDE as possible, or have as many edges as possible, despite the fact that required force for penetration increases at the square of edge width.
15. WKR- Well Known Rokslider. When you've been here long enough to make thoughtful posts to help FNG's make sound choices, seen the same question asked 20 times and yet managed to control your Tourrette's well enough not to kicked off by pushing your own idea of humor too far, and/or resisted the urge to individually taunt Humble Braggers about their KIT, BUILD or RIG.
16. BASIN- that magical HONEY HOLE of a bench, somewhere near Neverland Ranch, where legendary BOAL's hide, surrounded by impenetrable deadfall, impossibly steep terrain, 15 miles back from the trailhead and uphill both ways. This is where some A-hole will kill YOUR TARGETED BOAL right out from under you, leaving you forever shattered and broken, forced to post and whine of your epic loss on this and other forums.
17. MORE Later...

Thank you for your service to the Rokslide community!

Your post clears up a lot of things I have been struggling to understand.

I’m only 43, but more and more I find myself thinking “what did that person just say?”.

It’s all making sense now!

 

[fngTony]

Thank you for your service to the Rokslide community!

Your post clears up a lot of things I have been struggling to understand.

I’m only 43, but more and more I find myself thinking “what did that person just say?”.

It’s all making sense now!

Some days I understand my teenagers better than this place

 

[grfox92]

Boomer = old ass hat that thinks his way is the only way and is better then everyone, has seen and done it all, rooten, tooten model 70 shootin SOB, has forgot more then you'll ever know.
Yearns for the good ole days, has max points in every state, wears white new balance sneakers and suspenders.

Just for reference.

The M70 needs to have an older Japanese made scope, back when they were gloss black. And when people mention it, say something like "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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[WeiserBucks]

No Fudd?

 

[Hnthrdr]

Boomer = old ass hat that thinks his way is the only way and is better then everyone, has seen and done it all, rooten, tooten model 70 shootin SOB, has forgot more then you'll ever know.
Yearns for the good ole days, has max points in every state, wears white new balance sneakers and suspenders.

Has max points, and an opinion on every unit, although he has never hunted the state, still waiting for the “right” year to draw his tag

 

[5MilesBack]

Probably need to add basin. Those magical spots between 2 peaks that are loaded with trophy animals because you have secret paid scouting techniques.

Basin is easy.........A basin is a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface. Basins are shaped like bowls, with sides higher than the bottom.......just like a sink.......i.e......basin. There may or may not be any animals in said "basin".

"Growler" is definitely a bull elk that sounds more like a growl than a bugle.

And the only time I "run" all year, is during elk season when I need to catch up to the herd or get to a specific spot in a hurry.

Also, not sure how you wrote the dictionary for "backcountry hunting" and failed to define "backcountry"........LOL. That must be where that overlanding rig is camping.

 

[Wrench]

Guess I’m not a true BCH then. I don’t know what a kit is. I drive a truck. Never wear a flatbrim hat. I never run anywhere or anything. I don’t shoot a 6.5 prc and never will. I don’t know what a growler is unless I’m referencing what type of bugle an elk has. I do have a beard but it’s not a full on duck dynasty one.

Wait, maybe I am a true back country hunter because I abbreviated it earlier.

The original KIT is the keep in truck gun. Once the youts started filming hunts it transformed into some collection of shit you need to rip all the parts you intend to eat off a buck or bull.

The spin/spun is rather saddening to me as a gun plumber. We gun plumbers used to use those terms and now it appears that any clown who may have never owned a depth mic let alone know how to read one has taken over the creds.

 

[jjarrell]

Hilarious. And educational for this FNG.

 

[Sherman]

Gun fight - when a hunter takes multiple horrible shots at a trophy animal leading him to blame his gun, take another hunter’s gun, continue blasting at said animal, resulting in an extremely unethical kill, while, more likely than not, wearing Kryptek clothing.

 

[awbowhunter]

BBD= Big Buck Down or Big Bull Down
DRT= Dead Right There

"Epic" and "it was a fire drill" could be defined as it pertains to backcountry.

 

[Bluumoon]

Every morning after a couple swigs of coffee.

As we don't want to confuse elk vocalizations with movements, may I suggest "Grumpy" as the official alternative.

 

[Mag_7s]

"Big shout out to @inserthunter for connecting on this trophy buck/bull" Translation: I'm not able to fill tags but still want to stay relevant and get likes on the Gram.

 

[Dos XX]

I get the terms "growler" and "groover" mixed up, much to the chagrin of my rafting buddies.

 

[Wrench]

I get the terms "growler" and "groover" mixed up, much to the chagrin of my rafting buddies.

You duece a growler on the groover.

C'mon. 101 shiznit.

 

[Olympics777]

This is hilarious. It drives me nuts when guys say they are “running” something, usually guys who just bought that thing…

 

[Wrench]

This is hilarious. It drives me nuts when guys say they are “running” something, usually guys who just bought that thing…

So do I say, "what glass are you running?" ....or must I ask, "what optical sighting system has been installed upon your rifle?"

 

[Olympics777]

So do I say, "what glass are you running?" ....or must I ask, "what optical sighting system has been installed upon your rifle?"

I mean “what glass do you use” would be the normal way of saying it. The 2nd way is pretty fun though.

 

[Wrench]

You use. Sounds mighty jersey shore to my Selkirk mountain ears.

 

[Traveler]

Can someone include a clean and clear standard for what “getting into elk/deer” means? I have heard it used to mean we were within 30 yds and we saw some way over there with glass…

 

[MattB]

So do I say, "what glass are you running?" ....or must I ask, "what optical sighting system has been installed upon your rifle BUILD?"

Fixed it for you. You need to up your game.