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Hunting Glossary

HuntingNet.com has comprised a database of many of these phrases and their definitions to help you gain a better understand of hunting terminology.

The hunting world is filled with a variety of different terms and phrases that may mean one thing to a seasoned veteran but make no sense whatsoever to someone who is just starting out.

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Rack Search:

A rack is a set of antlers.

Rattling Search:

The use of two objects (usually antlers) that when banged or clashed together, mimic the fighting of two bucks. This is used to lure deer into shooting range.

Recast Search:

To send a dog on a mark a second time. If a dog starts out to the mark and returns to the handler and is resent, he is said to be recast.

Recurve Search:

A bow design which features limbs that bend away from the archer at the tips.

Reflex Riser Search:

Features a grip which is closer to the archer than the ends of the riser. This results in a short brace height and a longer power stroke. Thus creating a faster bow but generally more difficult to shoot than deflexed risers

Refuge Search:

A place where animals have plentiful food and supportive environment. In some places animals are protected from hunting, other locations people are allowed to hunt in refuges.

Remiges Search:

The wing feathers of a turkey.

Reticulum Search:

The reticulum, the second chamber of the stomach, holds already chewed cud in a clump. The main functions are the breakdown of plant materials into digestible molecules, and filtering out of foreign material.

Retired Gun Search:

Used in multiple marks. After the BB has thrown the item to be retrieved, the BB moves to a concealed location so when the dog returns to the line and looks out to their mark, they are hidden from view.

Retrices Search:

The tail feathers of a turkey.

Rooster Search:

Full grown adult male game bird. Pheasants, turkeys, etc.

Rub-off Search:

The process of rubbing off the velvet from the buck’s antlers. This occurs during the prerut. Buck’s will rub-off by using a tree or any other protruding object.

Rubs Search:

Bucks rub tree branches with their antlers, displaying dominance and marking territory.

Rumen Search:

The rumen is the first chamber of the four part stomach. It is also the main digestive chamber, containing billions of microorganisms designed to break down food into materials usable by the digestive system.

Ruminants Search:

Ruminants are animals with four chambered stomachs, consisting of the rumen, reticulum,omasum and abomasum. All the chambers are needed to process the large amount of low nutrient food eaten. This type of stomach also minimizes exposure to predators- letting them eat quickly without chewing. Then go back to concealment where they then properly digest the food.

Rump patch Search:

The area on deer around tail, rump and upper legs that is white.

Rut Search:

Rut is the six month breeding season. Hormones in the pituitary gland in the brain trigger instinctive needs to breed. Bucks become aggressive with each other to compete for does, they scrape off the velvet and their antlers harden. Does physically become ready when their sex organs prepare to help them get pregnant.