Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
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09/05/21 07:44 PM
09/05/21 07:44 PM
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Posts: 5,756 Williamsport, Pa.
jk
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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
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: foxhunter52]
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09/05/21 07:49 PM
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Posts: 6,007 Rock Springs, WI
Zim
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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
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
#7348706
09/05/21 09:27 PM
09/05/21 09:27 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,694 Wisconsin
Green Bay
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Wisconsin
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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
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
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09/05/21 09:52 PM
09/05/21 09:52 PM
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Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 10,855 Asheville, NC
charles
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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.
Last edited by charles; 09/05/21 09:54 PM.
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: ky_coyote_hunter]
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09/05/21 10:01 PM
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GRP
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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.
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
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09/05/21 11:02 PM
09/05/21 11:02 PM
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Posts: 34,988 Central, SD
Law Dog
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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
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
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09/06/21 07:18 AM
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Posts: 14,194 Michigan
Trapper Dahlgren
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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 ,
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
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09/06/21 10:52 AM
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J Staton
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J Staton
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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]
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09/07/21 08:49 AM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 2,239 SW WI
trapper20
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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
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Re: Hunting as you get older.
[Re: BKS]
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09/07/21 08:58 AM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,988 Central, SD
Law Dog
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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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