Noticing your lab puppy fast asleep with his head on the toe of your boot in a make shift waterfowl blind as you wait for the next flight of birds .

The bugle of a big bull elk calling out all challengers and then protecting his herd of cow elk .

The first time you see a frost dog on a cold clear winters day or night ,.

The sound of a Colman double lantern and stove firing up in your tent after a long day of hunting .

The look and sounds of excitement as you hand a fishing rod to a young person to reel in a fish at a kids fishing day and then getting to help by holding the rod so it doesn't end up in the lake when they first see how big the fish is that they have caught !

Great idea for a post Jack !

The mention of hoppes number 9,brings back memories of my father cleaning his model 11 Remington while I, as a young boy ,watched in amazement as he disassembled and reassembled it.

The first sound of geese flying overhead in spring migration or the swans high pitch call during fall migration

Just the other day I was oiling some stuff and my son asked me what the smell was I said hoppes no.9 and if your lucky you will never forget that smell.glad to see others have the same memories with that smell as I do. I'll add the sound of little footsteps running around the house

Again Gulo, thanks for kicking off such a wonderful thread. It is very nice to get away from the political diatribe that seems to be so prevalent on this trapping forum.

My pleasure, Mike. I see one multiple times on here, that most assuredly I shouldn't have missed in my original list. That is the smell of Hoppe's No. 9. What good memories that stuff always brings. I love it!

Jack

Ok I have to ask Hoppe's No.9 is that a muskrat lure?I never did a lot of water trapping so that's why I'm asking,now if you asked how Carman's Pro's Choice smelled I could relate.

Either you are pretty young or didn't hunt growing up. Hoppes #9 is the only thing I used to clean firearms when I was young, not even sure if anything else was available.

Hoppe’s No9 is a gun cleaning solution…

Sundance beat me to it…lol.

A reasonably full shrimp pot or crab pot.

Watching auroras with spring owls hooting, especially boreal owls.

Puppy breath.

The "gluck" of a bull moose coming in.

The sound of a return "thwack" on a deer, elk, pronghorn, _______ after the shot.

Whistling wings of a flock of goldeneyes.

The sound of a canoe paddle as it strokes across a placid lake.

A pheasant exploding under a shorthairs point after a couple inches of fresh powder snow. Time freezes for me.

Thank's,wrong on both accounts started to hunt in 1974,shot my first Ruffed grouse with a wrist rocket sling shot,never paid that much attention to the brand name of the cleaner,it jogged my memory when you stated what it was thank's again.Another great pleasure hearing a buck grunting while chasing a doe through the November woods waiting to see if it's a good shooter.

When your grandson is sitting in your lap and kills his first deer. Then in a few more years, he does it all by himself and you walk over to see his grin.

Walking home from school and setting on the back porch steps listioning to my Mom sing to songs playing on the radio. I would give anything to here it again.

Everyday I came home from school she was singing. Then my sister was killed and she never sang for a long time. I would guess maybe a year and a half. Then one day I came home and she was singing again.

The smell of autumn and spring, freshly cut grass, the aroma of good pipe tobacco, the sound of a flushing grouse...

The faint smell of smoke and the haze in the air from the forest fires up north.

The American flag standing strong off a flag pole
Hearing a whippoorwill in the early morning, soon before the turkeys start to fire off
A topwater rockfish or trout crash your lure
A fall sunrise when you’re offshore in the ocean
A sika deer squeal in the phragmites at sunset
The smell of a fresh cut cornfield
The five minutes before legal shooting time in a duckblind - can be incredible!

Could go on and on...

Yup!!