Hunting terminology pet peeves

[ivorytip]

haha, have you ever seen a herd of moose? a large grouop of moose just chilling? and geezedel, you hurt my brain with all of that biological crap. im a redneck here give me some slack

 

[ivorytip]

i belive they call it "yarding" not common to see large groups of moose together, however, i have seen a bachelor herd of 5 bulls together once and that was wierd.

 

[Timberstalker]

I don't watch many huniting shows, simply because I don't think like many of them. One word that has made into the hunting world that I cannot stand is, "ATHLETE". Since when do you have to be an athelete to be a hunter?? When I was in high school all the "athletes" were at practice while I was out killing deer, now they all sit on their azz and watch football while I'm out hunting. You don't have to be an athlete to be an excellant hunter.

 

[Timberstalker]

I think I am going to start calling a group of moose a muster. Actually I am going to call the patent office and put a trademark on muster of moose, so some gun writer 30 years from now can talk about how the infamous Edelweiss coined the phrase muster.

In the Navy "muster" is the term for roll call of your troops in morning "quarters" (what the Army calls formation).

I LIKE IT ! A Muster of Moose, thats good.

 

[Drhorsepower]

Actually all of them are subspecies of deer. Moose being the largest of the clan, and the Alaska-Yukon and Kamchakta moose being the largest of all deer on the planet.

A lot of people call pronghorn antelope "goats". And even their scientific name is antelocapra americana, not capra anything, so they are NOT goats. But I don't really get upset about that either.

And reindeer and caribou are the same sub species of deer, both are rangifer tarandus.

Of course the stag thing really isn't that big either. Red deer are cervus elaphus and American elk are cervus canadus. So that's not that much of a difference. As European moose (elch, Alg, elk, in the native language) are alces alces, and ours are alces shirasi, alces gigas, alces andersoni or alces americana.

Calling a elk a stag isn't taxanomically as wrong as calling a pronghorn a goat.

Either way I think it's kind of silly to get worked up over. Then again I hate the term harvest, with a passion so to each his own.

Ivory tip what do you call a herd of moose anyway? A flight? A bundle? A sack? A muster of moose?

Calling pronghorn, goats is my pet peeve, they are not a goat, actually not even close! They aren't even an antelope, but that's the closest thing I guess. It's one of those things where I wonder who came up with calling them a goat and what they were thinking.

I think doing it on television just shows your ignorance.

 

[Bitterroot Bulls]

I guess I am guilty of most of this stuff: "Shooter, harvest, monster, etc." I kind of like it when people get excited about hunting.

I guess it just doesn't bother me as much as it does some other guys.

I don't care for the ridiculous inflated B&C scores on most hunting shows. If those are the real scores I have seen A LOT of 180 mulies out there.

 

[Drhorsepower]

True that last paragraph bb.

 

[THelms]

I think I am going to start calling a group of moose a muster. Actually I am going to call the patent office and put a trademark on muster of moose, so some gun writer 30 years from now can talk about how the infamous Edelweiss coined the phrase muster.

In the Navy "muster" is the term for roll call of your troops in morning "quarters" (what the Army calls formation).

Hahaaaaa... no, no, the plural for moose is MOOSEN! Just ask Brian Regan... just about crapped my pants on that one.

 

[hardstalk]

many non hunters will ask if I "caught anything" while hunting...

I can handle "harvest" but I don't "catch stuff" when I hunt...

More than possible to catch deers!! Haha.

 

[Shaun]

Diddnt want to read through them all so I am not sure if this one was already posted. But Freak Nasty is the one that annoys me more than anything

 

[Roboz]

Stan Potts - "Just give me a minute folks"

Cant stand any of the Dream Season team members, they all think pretty highly of themselves.

 

[HuntWYODon]

Calling pronghorn, goats is my pet peeve, they are not a goat, actually not even close! They aren't even an antelope, but that's the closest thing I guess. It's one of those things where I wonder who came up with calling them a goat and what they were thinking.

I think doing it on television just shows your ignorance.

Ahh ! finally found someone else that doesn't like the term goat ! The only goats I ever hunted were Spanish (feral) goats on Catalina Island along with feral hogs. I like to call them lope's or loper's.

 

[HuntWYODon]

i belive they call it "yarding" not common to see large groups of moose together, however, i have seen a bachelor herd of 5 bulls together once and that was wierd.

What about a "band" of sheep ? Who thought that one up ...?

I agree with someone on this thread about naming animals they are hunting.
I call them either dead or alive.

 

[HuntWYODon]

Yeah, that's 'No Guff', Shockey seems like one of the good guys.

Have you ever seen his wife ? WOW ! I saw both of them at the Sportsman's Convention 2009 Salt Lake.
My girlfriend got mad when I wanted to go up and talk to him and ger her autograph... LOL ! He was a nice guy.

 

[hardstalk]

Shockey's wife looks like a Shania Twain clone, only prettier and not a vegan idiot.

I blew coffee out my nostrils. Thanks edelweiss!