What’s your favorite outdoors idiom/colloquialism?

[Singapore_swing]

I’ll start. Some I’ve heard here and some I’ve heard elsewhere:

Kentucky windage: holding off target for wind

Texas heart shot: a shot up the brown balloon knot

Wisconsin tuxedo: full carhartt bibs and jacket

Etc.

 

[Billy Goat]

I thought Kentucky windage was actually elevation, just they are backwards down there.

 

[TSAMP]

Common hunting colloquialisms

I've got my 40's well within view, so young for this forum sub group, but folks who know me say I'm an "old soul" because I'm always saying weird stuff they've never heard of. To me, my sayings are pretty common. "There's more than one way to skin a cat." Seems pretty benign but the Gen Z's...

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Here ya go

 

[WildBoose]

I thought Kentucky windage was actually elevation, just they are backwards down there.

Being a native Kentuckian I have always interpreted Kentucky Windage as "spray and pray", "fire for effect and adjust" both windage and elevation.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Adapting to discomfort.

 

[Iafarmer]

That critter is so old and tough you couldn’t get a fork in his gravy!

 

[MarlinMark]

A good shot on a critter that drops right there.......... "Looks like you stole his bones."

 

[ProStaffSteve]

You get what you get, and don’t talk shit

bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

It ain’t the heat, it’s the gosh darn humidity (for when it’s really cold)

 

[Idaboy]

"Keep your nose to the wind and your eyes along the skyline"
- Del Gue

 

[Zerk]

Texas heart shot: a shot up the brown balloon knot

Wisconsin tuxedo: full carhartt bibs and jacket

Etc.

Never that in UP or WI. As for Texans its just fun to screw with Texan, Why in texas we shoot deer up the butt.

They closed liquor stores for 61 hours. I hope I don't have to specify, TX, not WI. We don't have that much goverment.

 

[Gingerman]

Don't pass up on the first day what you'd shoot on the last!

 

[ODB]

One shot, meat
Two shots, maybe
Three shots, heap shit!

 

[LoggerDan]

Skookum- logging term derived from PNW native term- strong, stout, powerful.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I suffer from iseemea. I see me a better spot

 

[Phaseolus]

Indifference to adversity

 

[Rokbar]

"Steep as a Mule's Face" Straight up in other words.

 

[Legend]

"Type 2 fun".....when it really hurts! Type 2 fun is where memories are made.

 

[full choke]

It's a chill wind that blows no warmth.

 

[FlyAK]

A good attitude- costs nothing and weighs zero ounces.

 

[EastHumboldt]

As a language/grammar nazi, I must observe that some of you have mistaken aphorism for idiom. I’m willing to concede we should include aphorisms in this thread so long as no one thinks they are idioms.!!!

aphorism - a pithy observation usually containing truth or wisdom, often humorous as in: “There’s no money above the third fret“. “Country musicians play three chords for thousands of people, while jazz musicians play thousands of chords for three people”. Or “ It doesn’t matter what bullet you miss them with.”

Idiom - A colorful piece of language whose meaning may be well known and understood by colloquial speakers but is not literal or apparent from the words used. As in: Beat around the bush, stabbed in the back, piece of cake, a tall drink of water.

This one‘s not really hunting related. “He’s All hat, No cattle.“.
“Antlers make poor soup” may be both an idiom and an aphorism.