Buzzard rifle patchbox

[Cades Cove Fiddler]

  ... Wayne,... my late uncle who went through two wars as a NCO in the 101st Airborne Div. fondly called that emblem on his division shoulder patch, the "pukin' buzzard", .... !!!

[shootrj2003]

I live in ny now but always called them either one interchangeably,I was brought up mostly in the south,but most people here use both words.

[Craig Wilcox]

Those turkey buzzards are fairly smart - whole gang of them journey south in the winter, spend their time around Tampa and Sarasota.  Get whole herds (flocks) of them.  I think they like the "tourists" from Michigan and Illinois.  Don't take naps around them!

Would really like to hear more about the rifle.  How is it coming along?

[hanshi]

Well, being an original Georgia Cracker I've always called and heard them called "buzzards".  And yes, I do know what they actually are but it makes no difference to me.  My grandmother called them - a lot of people did - "carrion crows" (pronounced "kyarn crow" in the deep South).  And that Buzzard Rifle would make a fine companion to my famous "Buzzard's Breath Chili".

[WadePatton]

Well, being an original Georgia Cracker I've always called and heard them called "buzzards".  And yes, I do know what they actually are but it makes no difference to me.  My grandmother called them - a lot of people did - "carrion crows" (pronounced "kyarn crow" in the deep South).  And that Buzzard Rifle would make a fine companion to my famous "Buzzard's Breath Chili".

I always wondered how to spell "kyarn" because I heard it many times.

Another expressive exclamation of the South is "Hee-yow!"  And after turning that one 'round in my head a few times, I sorted out that it was a contracted version of "Here now!" which sounds ridiculous if you grew up hearing things like:

  HEE-YOW!  get away from them buzzards before you get kyarn all over yourself and hafta sleep in the shed 'til the smell wears off.

 

[Nordnecker]

HEE-YOW[/i]!  get away from them buzzards before you get kyarn all over yourself and hafta sleep in the shed 'til the smell wears off.

 

I'm gonna have to remember that one