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Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348587
09/05/21 07:32 PM
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Utah
I find my reverence for life has increased year in and year out for the past 50 years. Yet I still love to hunt and trap.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348593
09/05/21 07:44 PM
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Williamsport, Pa.
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Almost 80 and just bought a doe license for the first time in many years. I had trapped sort of hard and last year took to ice fishing instead fo trapping once the ice formed. I just enjoy being active in the woods with a gun or bow or traps in hand.........jk


Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: foxhunter52] #7348598
09/05/21 07:49 PM
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Rock Springs, WI
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I still get up at 4:00 Am on opening morning of rifle deer season. I just never wake up 5 times to check the clock.
Still stay in a tree for hours looking around , spend a few more reading a book.
Our home is in the woods so most of my stands are within a couple - three hundred yards of my house.
This allows more time in the woods and less travel time, not as much stress trying to get somewhere.
Seen a lot of things over the years, be it in a tree, on foot along a river, or on a quiet hunt in a canoe.
I still like to kill things, likely always will. I enjoy the field to table aspect.

zim

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348623
09/05/21 08:18 PM
09/05/21 08:18 PM
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I’m a die hard trad archer and still enjoy deer hunting. I’m 63 and when I was younger I wouldn’t have dreamt of sitting in a stand. Now I enjoy sitting, reading a good book, and waiting for dinner to serve itself at my feet! It is my quiet time to just enjoy being out of the house or workshop.


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"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain

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Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348645
09/05/21 08:30 PM
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Indiana
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I really started hunting deer at 13 with a bow. That's when I could pull back the 35lb bow requirement. I was raised by a single mom that did not like guns so got my first little bow at 5. My boys finished wearing that one out.
I had an uncle that hunted but he hunted for himself. I would get a ride to his house and my cousin and I would walk a 3 mile radius to hunt by ourselves. I killed my first several deer with a bow sitting in the forks of trees not deer stands. After 2 years my grandfather and dad bought me a loggy climber.

At 15 I bought my first shotgun a single shot Steven's at a farm auction. My mom hit the fan the gun was keep at my grandparents. I fought and work extremely hard to get to hunt. Raised in an apartment in town by a single mother that is a hairdresser. Read every magazine and watched rented every video on hunting I could find. Infacr a video is how I learned to gut deer not from my uncle.

I started trapping in my early 20s fir a few years then quit. Starter again a few years ago to teach my kids.

I used to live to hunt and fish. Today I'm 41 I still love it but mainly take my kids. I don't take a gun or bow but every now and then. I did shoot one rabbit last year and one dove. I can't stand sitting in a stand hunting for me ( to much else to do) but I will sit there all day hunting with my kids.

I never got really into antlers. Sure they are nice but I would rather eat doe. Last year the boys shot 5 deer the year before that 6.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348674
09/05/21 08:53 PM
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Frazee, MN
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I enjoy hunting more now than I did when I was younger. Its just not that big of a deal if I don't harvest anything.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348706
09/05/21 09:27 PM
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Good post. I used to be manic about it - hunted everything from opening day to season close. Now I don't need to kill anything but still enjoy getting out and experiencing the outdoors with someone else.

Brian


Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348708
09/05/21 09:28 PM
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Maine, Aroostook
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Hunting has been my passion since I was a kid. Been at it for forty-five years. The passion is still there but the legs aren't.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348723
09/05/21 09:52 PM
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I have several deer rifles but I decided this season to just use my Rem700 7mm-08. It is a LVSF fluted light varmint with aluminum bedding blocks, and a Trigger Tech trigger. It is a shooter. Low recoil and very accurate. Whitetails hate it.

A 7-08 is about all the recoil my 75-year old shoulder can stand, after two rotator surgeries.

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Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: ky_coyote_hunter] #7348729
09/05/21 10:01 PM
09/05/21 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ky_coyote_hunter
How about the "I'm going to shoot the next trespasser on my property stage" ?.....After encountering an accumulative army of poachers over many years I think I'm between the method and sportsman stage, but ready to revert back to the shooter and limiting out stage on the next interloper. Lol.

I'm with you. Nothing more infuriating to work so hard to keep a cattle farm going, then go on a winter day for a hunt to enjoy the land. Only to find someone has already been through.


For by grace are you saved by faith, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348752
09/05/21 10:50 PM
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Have some fun with that, Zim! Good luck!

Moosetrot

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348759
09/05/21 11:02 PM
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Dang forgot about Turkey hunting that is the only hunting I still do I tried hunting about every critter and ways to hunt them and Turkey still lights my fire mostly because less people are out there.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348782
09/06/21 01:12 AM
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You start realizing your own mortality and appreciate life a lot more. As a kid I would shoot songbirds with my red rider daisy for shucks and giggles. Now I don't enjoy killing unless the animal is bothering my standard of living and causing problems. I kill 2 deer a year off of my 155 acre farm because that is what my family uses each year. I don't celebrate it like I did as a kid. Just a shopping trip. Now when I kill something it's for neccecity , not for fun.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: VaBeagler] #7348795
09/06/21 05:56 AM
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^^^ This.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348820
09/06/21 07:18 AM
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i don't have the drive to hunt deer as much as when I was young. but I believe it all about having some one to do it with , if you have people that are really into hunting then it make's it better for you , I have two uncles in there middle 80s that still love to hunt ,go to camp, they have son, and grandson that go for a week or two , since my dad died in 07, his friend quit hunting and so did some of mine , I sold camp was just not using it , I have great hunting right at home ,

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348939
09/06/21 10:52 AM
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Well all this talk about hunting had me step out back for a sit amongst some hickory trees. No limit but it will do.

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Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7348961
09/06/21 11:20 AM
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nice !!

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7349059
09/06/21 02:47 PM
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My hunting has slowed a little as I get older. I find it more fun to go back to the old ways-recurve-flintlock. All the new stuff to make everything easier does not sit well with me.That being said I leave for an elk hunt tom.for 2 weeks and will be home for a few days and then off to NoDak for ducks for a week. Been taking the grandsons to ND and it has been a blast!! I have never slowed down on the trapping-LL my whole life.

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7349625
09/07/21 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BKS
Has anyone else stopped caring about hunting as much as they did when they were younger? I mean like changing directions on hunting to say only small game vs deer hunting and everything else? I to the point about the only hunting I want to do is some squirrel hunting and some trapping. My days of climbing trees to shoot Bambi are definitely over.
The more laid back pace of squirrel hunting and a small hobby trap line are more my speed these days.

I’d like to hear anyone’s opinions on this.



I miss hunting in groups and the comradery. now everyone has big buck fever and wants to hunt alone in some fancy blind. i still do it for food, but the most enjoyment i get is hunting with the kids

Re: Hunting as you get older. [Re: BKS] #7349632
09/07/21 08:58 AM
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Things have changed for the worst many animal populations are way down and tags are hard to get for big game. Rules are changing all of the time now it seems never ending trapping not impacted as much so far but it’s coming.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
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