I've been TRYING to eat better, after decades of not.
FWIW, my Dad made it into his 90s, smoked since he was 12, popped first beer by 0700, and deep fried everything.
I think genetics plays the biggest part.
At least I hope, lol

Great work!

I hurt mostly on the ground so when I get to a spot I like I first kick the leaves away from where I will be kneeling.
Next I like to make a few soft deep grunts, then I'll use a stick I carry in my backpack and rub a sapling near me and add in some ground noise. I'll finish up that with a few more soft grunts.
If I have no reaction to that within 45 minutes or so, I move 50-100 yards and do it again.
In another week or so I'll eliminate the tree rubbing and make it sound like a buck is tending a doe, with ground sounds included.

If you have does with early dropped fawns the doe estrous call can be deadly now

We hang them by the head at camp (field dressed), mainly to let them drain in the beginning. Then at home for skinning and breaking down we hang them by the hind legs.

Just the way we've always done it.

With the low water, the summer runs into the bank really show up. You can see these summer bank dens are not very high in elevation. Just enough to hold a nesting area.

Floods and droughts really knock muskrat populations down.

When do you get to start shooting them down there?

Morning. 34 F, 10 MPH E wind.

I've always hung mine by the back legs because once the hide is off it's easier to split them in half and quarter them. I use a sawzall to split them.

This is what I use, I don’t have any problems with this one or the others.

Congratulations! I would be proud to shoot one like that.

Prayer sent for the clots to continue to decrease and you will continue on the road to full recovery.