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.

Deer lingo