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!

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.

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.

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…

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

Semper Fi Gary

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.

Not me!!! Only 83 1/2.......jk

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."

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.

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.

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

That's exactly the way I wanna be

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.

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.

There should be something you can chase while trapping. Just slow down a bit and get after it.

I am 73 and have had both hips replaced. Spent 5 hours in the last 2 days shoveling snow.
I take no medication. Can get around pretty good and trap what and where I can, surely not as much as I did 20 years ago. Might be a little challenging getting up some steep stream banks, but I find a way. Right now my trapping problem is 3 feet of snow on the flats and bigger drifts, just when I was going to set some rat traps. Knowing this storm was coming I pulled down my few coyote and fox snares just in case I could not get to them (and I cannot).

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are”. Credited to Satchel Paige

I talked to Frank tonight. He's having problems with neuropathy in his legs and couldn't trap in Mississippi this year. He's hoping to get feeling back and trap again next year. He's 85 now. He caught 138 bobcat on the quail plantation since 2018 and 284 bobcat total. He wants to break 300 bobcat. If we get a bobcat season in Ohio next year, he's going to trap on his property close to Canton. He said he would rather catch one in Ohio than anywhere else.

Keith