Old Age and Hunting

[MCgunner]

Just a cautionary note, before I had to have my triple bypass, etc., I was huffing and puffing just walking a half mile. I went and had a cardiac catheterization and they wouldn't let me leave the hospital until surgery was done. Get yourself checked out good or that heart attack you mentioned just might do you in.

Yeah, it's been worrying me. I just got on a new medicare replacement policy and have been taking advantage of it with check ups and such. Between me and the wife, we've got something every week. I've been putting it off due to lack of insurance, but this is a pretty good policy and I'm taking advantage of it.

 

[Captcurt]

Yeah, it's been worrying me. I just got on a new medicare replacement policy and have been taking advantage of it with check ups and such. Between me and the wife, we've got something every week. I've been putting it off due to lack of insurance, but this is a pretty good policy and I'm taking advantage of it.

Me too. I also got a free Silver Sneakers membership to the local gym. I can go anytime, plus I have a treadmill at home and a stair climber. It has helped me a lot when it comes to dragging Mr. Big Stuff to a point that I can drive my ATV. I turn 67 next month and don't feel a day over 80.

 

[MCgunner]

I think I just need more exercise. I worked on the garden today best I could. Can't turn soil until the drizzle quits. I am going to start walking in the woods, too, when I don't have hard labor to do in the garden or something. I did feel better today.

 

[Skoghund]

In a couple of weeks I'll be 69. Worked out in the forest yesterday and thinned out a 2 small plantations with the brush cutter. Had a friend, 79 years old, stay for a couple of nights because he wanted to look at a hare dog he's thinking about buying. Last night it snowed and today its raining and just above freezing but we were out with my neighbor hare hunting with his dog. Well we sat round a fire and grilled sausages, drank coffee and talked BS in the rain for 3 hours till the dog had had enough. The world is a much better place now after all the bull talked this morning round that fire.

 

[SoonerMedic]

Killed five deer in the 2017 season; four from tree stands and blinds. i dragged a big doe over 100 yards to the truck: One should really do that stuff before he's 78 years old.

Was doing OK until my knee acted up: As a result i was unable to do much still hunting. Knee is presently doing well with cortisone shots and a brace.

Will continue to hunt hogs at least one day per week. Pray tell, if i live until the 2018 deer hunting season, i'll not change one thing. If worse comes to worse i'll simply buy a four wheeler and drive to my stands and blinds.

My offer will always remain. If you need any help, I'm only a phone call away!

 

[alsaqr]

Thanks, SoonerMedic. If the spring rains come we can plant some summer food plots in April. .

 

[MCgunner]

Well, I broke out the tiller today. Moved 34 bags of compost, tilled about half the garden (the raised beds). Heck, I had to clean the carb jet (been sitting a while, though it had Stabil in it) before I started cause the thing wouldn't run.

Anyway, did all that and didn't totally wear me out. Okay, I'm kinda pooped, but hey, that woulda tired me out a bit 10 years ago.

 

[bikerdoc]

Ya'all need to take my sig line more seriously.

You only got so many heart beats dont waste them on exercise.

To be fair the rest of the quote says " get out and do stuff.

 

[Armored farmer]

I may only be 53 but i certainly enjoy hunting from our elevated, heated blind.(Trump Tower)

 

[Loyalist Dave]

How many are still hunting at the age of 80 or better? I have but given up all together as I can no longer walk any distance

I'm sad at hearing that. I think that you could, like Armored Farmer above, hunt from a blind, even deer, with only the getting there and back being the problem.
Perhaps if you mentored a young hunter or two, they could help you get out there, and you could help them be hunters and/or be better hunters?


LD

 

[Armored farmer]

My dad is 83. He says he enjoys reading about hunts and trappers and frontiersman more than he likes sitting in the cold himself. I csn see the logic in that.
He does, however, defend his bird feeders from squirrels with his Daisy bb gun.

 

[FL-NC]

Wow. I'm only 50, but after so many miles with a ruck, so many jumps, so much running around in body armor, so many explosions, cold weather injuries, hot weather injuries, etc. I'm definitely beyond "fair wear and tear". Last year I ran a 6:18 mile. Getting old ain't for sissies!

 

[Kano383]

Just back from a ten days hunt in the bush. Average 10-15 miles per day in all sort of cover, hills, broken ground, thick bush, swamps, long grass. On that hunt I was with a colleague and mentor, old African guide, who is 74 and hunts some 100 - 150 days every year, carrying a loaded .458 in his hand.

Got a friend who’s been hunting since the 50’s, he’s now 85. Last year he drove his truck across Africa, 3,500 miles, carrying a few tourists to show them various Parks and Reserves “to get fuel money”. Met him with a young chick fifteen years younger than him some time ago...

Other friend of mine is hitting 70, regularly hunting two-legged gazelles in the downtown watering holes.

No obese people around here (very few imported cases), cattle is fed grass and has to walk for it, vegetables taste like the way God intended to, weather is clement, elevation is 4,000’, maybe these all contribute? Also, the environment is such that it’s mostly very active and enterprising people who hang on long enough to put roots in this soil.

Anyway, I’m close to sixty now, and feel like 40-somethings in Europe are acting old...

 

[eastbank]

my wife says I get my exercise hunting-fishing and pushing my luck.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I'm only 50, but after so many miles with a ruck, so many jumps, so much running around in body armor, so many explosions, cold weather injuries, hot weather injuries, etc. I'm definitely beyond "fair wear and tear".

Have you a chiropractor? I didn't for years. Thought it was mostly snake oil. Super-stupid on my part. I should have been getting adjustments years ago.

LD

 

[Sav .250]

Age can be the deciding factor for some. Like they say, all are not created equally. Health being a huge factor as well.
Some simply lose the desire. That happens.

All good thing come to an end......sooner or later. Enjoy it while you can..

You mentioned the 80`s........... I`m looking back at that number and still hunting.

 

[SoonerMedic]

Thanks, SoonerMedic. If the spring rains come we can plant some summer food plots in April. .

I can't wait! If possible I'd like to buy a couple different types and perhaps we can try to section out the plot and monitor the growth to see what they prefer. I think maybe a simple electric ribbon fence around the plot would help keep the hungry mouths out to allow it to grow up.

 

[SoonerMedic]

Ya'all need to take my sig line more seriously.

Reported!

 

[FL-NC]

Have you a chiropractor? I didn't for years. Thought it was mostly snake oil. Super-stupid on my part. I should have been getting adjustments years ago.

LD

No, my back isn't too bad. Mostly knees/ankles.

 

[alsaqr]

I'd like to buy a couple different types and perhaps we can try to section out the plot and monitor the growth to see what they prefer

We can do that.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

No, my back isn't too bad. Mostly knees/ankles.

DUDE! That's exactly what happens. When your spine is out of alignment, you don't necessarily have pain in the spine area. It's common for people not to feel any problems. It translates into leg problems and such. I too carried a ruck and also got banged around..., then when I became an LEO was in a series of car accidents and fights over a 27 year period. The last accident I finally got chiropractic care. They showed me my x-rays and degenerative results of being out of alignment and then gave me the number of accidents AND the years in the past when they happened. It was because they were so accurate (they had no access to my med records for those on-duty injuries or events) that's when I let them work on me. I figured if they could spot stuff wrong and tell me when it began..., they might know something.

The worst that can happen is they can't do anything for you, AND like any other type of doctor, get two independent opinions.

LD

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Wow. I'm only 50, but after so many miles with a ruck, so many jumps, so much running around in body armor, so many explosions, cold weather injuries, hot weather injuries, etc. I'm definitely beyond "fair wear and tear". Last year I ran a 6:18 mile. Getting old ain't for sissies!

It ain't just the years it also the miles and a LOT of the "roads" I traveled when younger weren't paved. Heck, some weren't even roads...
Saturday was our annual "Bunny Stomp" get together where a few of us go hiking with our stick bows and call it rabbit hunting. Saw some but none were harmed. On the up side, no arrows were lost either...
I kept up with the younger guys OK but was real glad that I had a chiropractor appointment this morning.

 

[Captcurt]

It ain't just the years it also the miles and a LOT of the "roads" I traveled when younger weren't paved. Heck, some weren't even roads...
Saturday was our annual "Bunny Stomp" get together where a few of us go hiking with our stick bows and call it rabbit hunting. Saw some but none were harmed. On the up side, no arrows were lost either...
I kept up with the younger guys OK but was real glad that I had a chiropractor appointment this morning.

That sounds like fun, but with the cost of arrows I am a little leery about slinging some at a rabbit. I cringe every time I shoot at a deer. I think, $8-$10 for the arrow shaft and $6-$12 for a broadhead, then if you have a lighted knock you tack on another $5. I guess that I need to go back to the recurve and rig up some wooden shafts with blunts. Now that would work.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

That sounds like fun, but with the cost of arrows I am a little leery about slinging some at a rabbit. I cringe every time I shoot at a deer. I think, $8-$10 for the arrow shaft and $6-$12 for a broadhead, then if you have a lighted knock you tack on another $5. I guess that I need to go back to the recurve and rig up some wooden shafts with blunts. Now that would work.

I'm a selfbow/longbow guy and the Ace hex head blunts fly well and don't dig in much if ya miss. Bright feathers for the fletching can be a big help too.

 

[Browngirlsdad]

I was blessed to witness my grandad shoot his last quail with a little .410 Topper off his walker when he was 84. He was blocking out a field we were pushing and I had watched that quail run the edge of the field for about 100 yds. I got within 40yrds of the end where grandpa was leaning against the truck with his walker in front of him and the bird flushed right at him. It turned down the road at the last second. He lifted the gun off his walker where it was resting and down went the bird in a shower of feathers. He couldn’t hardly see, but it was just like old times. He put the gun across the dash of the truck and we loaded up. It was a great day.