By Scott Bestul

Man, put a pair of awesome boots—Cabela’s Air Revolution by Meindl— on the line, and folks get creative in a hurry! Hurteau and I pored over 300-plus caption entries and did our normal arm-wrestling over which we thought were best. As usual, we narrowed it down to 11 that were all stellar. Here are the 10 runners-up, in no particular order:

“Say Uncle!!” from Fishman24

“Honorable mention, 2012 National High School Taxidermy Competition” from Cuz

“Please hold still during the CAT scan.” from BigTex

“Dang, not another PA Game Commission poaching decoy! They get me every time!” from Dan Sahd

“I wish I could quit you…” from BuckshottOO

“Boone & Crockett officials are still trying to decide how The Kitty Buck’s rack should be scored.” from guyandarifle

“Bambi soon realized that the shortcut through the catnip patch may not have been the best idea after all!” from SoCalBowhunter

“The lions make this look easy on Animal Planet!” from RGW3

“The DNR is introducing mountain lions to control the deer herd. My girlfriend’s uncle’s son-in-law got a picture to prove it.” from Kris Goetz

“They call him…The deer whisperer.” from Buckshott000

These were all excellent entries that came whisper-close to walking home with a free pair of boots. But the winner—a man who’ll hopefully have some happy feet this fall—came from Josh Giannino, who submitted this great caption:

“After the third shot from the back deck missed, I decided to throw the cat.”

Josh, we'll be contacting you soon so we can ship you your boots.

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from buckhunter wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

That is one well deserved pair of boots to Josh. Congratulations.

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from Ontario Honker ... wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Hmmm. Not an honorable mention from page two of the entries? Did you guys notice there was a page two? I didn't figure it out till almost too late.

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from Steward wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Congrats on the boots. That's a good line.

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from Ryan O'Blenis wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

That is Hilarious! Nice Going.

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from Gtbigsky wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

I will say that Josh's entry was good and congratulations on winning the boots. However, this is one of the first of these contests that the winner actually posted something funny or unique and deserved to win. I understand that the contests is judged by people and therefore its totally their opinion as to whats victory worthy and what isn't but come on guys. Most of the time the winning and runner up captions are pretty lame. I am going to keep posting captions in hopes of winning and one of these days Ill get it. With my luck I'll probably only win a novelty prize but I will love it anyway.

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from SoCalBowhunter wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Great caption and win, Josh!

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from Josh Giannino wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Did not expect to read that haha thanks everyone

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from sgtsly wrote 48 weeks 6 days ago

I don't get it.

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from 2Poppa wrote 48 weeks 4 days ago

sgtsly, Josh got it!

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from Buckshott00 wrote 48 weeks 3 days ago

Great Job Josh!!!

Thanks for the multiple Runner Ups Guys! Next time I'll try harder and win!

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from guyandarifle wrote 48 weeks 1 day ago

I gotta admit I thought I had a pretty strong entry and did make the cut but Josh's entry made me laugh. Well done and congrats Josh.

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from Gtbigsky wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

I will say that Josh's entry was good and congratulations on winning the boots. However, this is one of the first of these contests that the winner actually posted something funny or unique and deserved to win. I understand that the contests is judged by people and therefore its totally their opinion as to whats victory worthy and what isn't but come on guys. Most of the time the winning and runner up captions are pretty lame. I am going to keep posting captions in hopes of winning and one of these days Ill get it. With my luck I'll probably only win a novelty prize but I will love it anyway.

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from Josh Giannino wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Did not expect to read that haha thanks everyone

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from buckhunter wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

That is one well deserved pair of boots to Josh. Congratulations.

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from Ontario Honker ... wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Hmmm. Not an honorable mention from page two of the entries? Did you guys notice there was a page two? I didn't figure it out till almost too late.

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from Steward wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Congrats on the boots. That's a good line.

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from Ryan O'Blenis wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

That is Hilarious! Nice Going.

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from SoCalBowhunter wrote 49 weeks 2 days ago

Great caption and win, Josh!

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from sgtsly wrote 48 weeks 6 days ago

I don't get it.

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from 2Poppa wrote 48 weeks 4 days ago

sgtsly, Josh got it!

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from Buckshott00 wrote 48 weeks 3 days ago

Great Job Josh!!!

Thanks for the multiple Runner Ups Guys! Next time I'll try harder and win!

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from guyandarifle wrote 48 weeks 1 day ago

I gotta admit I thought I had a pretty strong entry and did make the cut but Josh's entry made me laugh. Well done and congrats Josh.

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