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Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8553933
Yesterday at 09:27 PM
Yesterday at 09:27 PM
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el vado, nm
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el vado, nm
I'm in great shape for the shape I'm in! I can go about 4 hours them I start feeling all 77 years, got a knee brace 20 plus years ago --keeps the surgeon away. Killed and butchered our Elk still trap about everything I can catch just not too many at once! I keep looking ahead!

Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8553934
Yesterday at 09:29 PM
Yesterday at 09:29 PM
Joined: Aug 2010
Asheville, NC
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Asheville, NC
I am 79+. Almost deaf. Candidate for cochlear implant. Had an MRI of my ear canals today. Got a bum knee replacement so I cannot walk very far. Almost severed an index finger with a radial saw. Now it "kills" me during cold weather. Had kidney and colon cancer surgeries. Had five rotator shoulder surgeries. Had a heart ablation. Deer hunt every year. Taken at least one deer each year for 53 seasons. About guit drinking - it bothers my gout. Getting old is tough.

I am going to keep chugging. Got my name on a list at a retirement community being built soon.

Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554014
Yesterday at 11:39 PM
Yesterday at 11:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
Otsego, MI 68
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Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554015
Yesterday at 11:39 PM
Yesterday at 11:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2010
Central, SD
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Joined: Dec 2010
Central, SD
Depends on what group I’m with I can be the youngest or the oldest one depending on the groups. Either way I can keep up with all of them the younger ones make it easy for me working ain’t their thing.


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

Jerry Herbst
Re: Old age [Re: K-zoo] #8554022
Yesterday at 11:49 PM
Yesterday at 11:49 PM
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49th State
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Originally Posted by K-zoo
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I am the opposite of that. Just told AV today that if I knew I would live this long I wouldn’t have taken as good of care of myself. Not even kidding. I honestly don’t want to be around past 76….. lol…

Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554032
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
I'm 86 and I'm still hunting and trapping. Shot 2 deer had to have help getting them into the truck but I got it done. Still ran a coon lime this last fall caught some rats and I still feel pretty good. Got a new knee and had my Pacemaker replaced but I'm still above ground.
But I have been a little stressed out lately. The wife changed our TV provider, and It's been a real chore re learning the new system. I hate CHANGE. LOL


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Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554042
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Joined: Dec 2006
Wisconsin
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Semper Fi Gary


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Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554105
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Minnesota
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Joined: Nov 2023
Minnesota
I'm 68 and still get around pretty well. Mary and I have a goal of walking 5 miles per day. We probably reach that 95% of the time. Trapped some marten, got a deer, picked some blue berries made some maple syrup. Stiff, sore hands my biggest hurdle. I bought an old cable skidder to clean up some budworm balsam and spruce alot harder to climb in and out of than 40 years ago, go figure. I believe you have to keep trying, keep moving and keep learning. Take Care.

Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554107
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Williamsport, Pa.
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Not me!!! Only 83 1/2.......jk


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Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554112
6 hours ago
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2A Sanctuaries-W. OK & N. NM
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2A Sanctuaries-W. OK & N. NM
52 here--I respect you old guys doing what you do.

One of my favorite movies lines is when an old James Caan told some young punks that were flexing on him: "the only thing you can assume about this broken down old man is that he's a survivor."

Re: Old age [Re: The Beav] #8554115
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sseMinnesota
Originally Posted by The Beav
I'm 86 and I'm still hunting and trapping. Shot 2 deer had to have help getting them into the truck but I got it done. Still ran a coon lime this last fall caught some rats and I still feel pretty good. Got a new knee and had my Pacemaker replaced but I'm still above ground.
But I have been a little stressed out lately. The wife changed our TV provider, and It's been a real chore re learning the new system. I hate CHANGE. LOL

That’s the attitude. I’m 66 and over the last year I’ve lost around twenty-five friends, family and or close acquaintances. So older age really hit me. Stay real active more the most and got plenty aches and pains but just push through. Problem is most of my friends are younger so I’ve got no one to complain to. LOL Can’t wait until trapping starts every year but wish time didn’t go so darn fast.


Ah,for the life of a millionaire,say some,but just let me stay a trapper. Bill Nelson
Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554198
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MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
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The key is to stay busy. I told my wife I wasn't going to work past 80. She said, why do you want to quit when you're so healthy? I told her, that's why I want to quit. I don't want to quit when I'm not healthy. I want to be able to still do things.
I have been running a food shelf for 28 years. I go to the health club Monday - Friday and workout. When the weather gets warmer, I'll be cutting wood in my woods. I don't burn wood anymore since my outside wood boiler died. So, I give the wood to my neighbor free of charge. I just want the exercise. He has a nice shooting range he lets me use whenever I want to. I've been fighting buckthorn in my woods too. I make walking sticks out of them and give them to all my friends. I like to eat fish, so I go fishing when the weather cooperates.


Stop giving them free benefits and they will deport themselves.
Re: Old age [Re: waggler] #8554201
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Minnesota
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Minnesota
Originally Posted by waggler
My mom amd dad both beat cancer in their 80's, they then live until 96 and 97 respectivly. The last few years of each of their lives were pretty, no, very miserable; both physically and cognitively.

I don't want to go that route, my plan is to stop fighting any major ailment in my seventies, and try to die in a timely manner.

Maybe you and I will go on a bear hunt... For a big brown...

And we'll incite a charge... And have forgotten the bullets...

That would take us out quick


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Re: Old age [Re: Trapper7] #8554202
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Minnesota
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Minnesota
Originally Posted by Trapper7
The key is to stay busy. I told my wife I wasn't going to work past 80. She said, why do you want to quit when you're so healthy? I told her, that's why I want to quit. I don't want to quit when I'm not healthy. I want to be able to still do things.
I have been running a food shelf for 28 years. I go to the health club Monday - Friday and workout. When the weather gets warmer, I'll be cutting wood in my woods. I don't burn wood anymore since my outside wood boiler died. So, I give the wood to my neighbor free of charge. I just want the exercise. He has a nice shooting range he lets me use whenever I want to. I've been fighting buckthorn in my woods too. I make walking sticks out of them and give them to all my friends. I like to eat fish, so I go fishing when the weather cooperates.

That's exactly the way I wanna be


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www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com




Re: Old age [Re: Snowpa] #8554291
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Joined: Feb 2008
UP of Michigan
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ya i hear what you all are sayin and its true we done wore our bodies out,but we keep going because thats what we know how to do,and ya i haver lost a lot of friends in the last few yrs have lots of memories good and bad, just do what we can do i hope to trap a few beaver come breakup....you guys all take care.


Billy
Re: Old age [Re: billy] #8554304
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Akron, Ohio
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Akron, Ohio
Well I'm not quite as old as some of you but 60 years old and feeling it. I want to retire and able to but its a bit scary as I still open the shop every day at 5:00 and know
I'll miss it. However, business has been the best its ever been, I'd like to say due to Trump but reality is its because of the way I am.I Have plenty of hobbies. The thing
that keeps me going and want to do better (health and fitness) is my 30 year old son and 2 grandsons. I want to be there for them as long as I can for hunting and fishing.


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