Besides hunting and reading, I also enjoy watching classic movies, and once in a while I come across a dialogue or phrase that is relevant to both hunting and shooting. Here you will find four of those instances, and if you haven't watched these movies they are great entertainment.
"What is important?
To hit the target.
When?
The first shot.
Why?
Because I might not get another."
Dialogue between Matt Calder (played by the laconic Robert Mitchum) and his son Mark Tommy Rettig) in the motion picture River of No Return (1954), just before they save Kay Weston (Marilyn Monroe) and her no good boyfriend Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun) from the rapids.
What do you think was in my mind when my family and I rafted down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, a.k.a. River of No Return, last year? We didn't find their homestead, but stopped at Buckskin Bill's! But that is another story.
"Oh, Harry, have you done any hunting lately?
No, why do you ask?
Too bad. A man should never lose his hand at hunting."
Dialogue between Uncle Bill (Leo G. Carroll) and Harry Street (Gregory Peck) in the motion picture The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), based on Ernest Hemingway's short story.
"Bring up your gun, put your finger on the trigger, and take a deep breath to steady your nerves..."
Just about every character say this to our beloved hero Reuben Soady (Jeff Daniels) in the classic Michigan's Upper Peninsula deer hunting movie Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001).
There are some many great one-liners in this movie that if probable deserves a post exclusively for them.
"I'll never forget the first deer that I shot."
Brigadier General Nicholas Herkimer (Roger Inhof) on being told that his leg must be amputated when he bleeds to death during the surgery in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939).
