When to Retire from Huntting ???

[Larryjk]

buckhunter, Don't always depend on someone else to do the "heavy lifting". I have a friend who "imposes" himself on others so he can pretend he is still a great hunter. He is in a motorized wheelchair and definitely gives the impression everyone is supposed to defer to his needs, not infrequently but all the time. He is at the stage where he is being avoided. He is 72 yras. of age and wants the one fellow who usually gives in to his requests to take him antelope hunting several days while he looks for a really nice head. Since it is a major drought year there aren't many big heads but that is what he wants. I don'tknow if it is the big head or that he really wants the days afield because he knows the days are numbered. Anyhow, don't give yourself this kind of a reputation.

[Rapier]

Let me tell you a short story: The fellow that drew the plans for my new home, shop and guest house at the farm, drove up to ask about drawing my plans when I was out on the tractor. He broke his neck when he was 19, dove off a bridge and hit a turtle. He had a wife and a son. Wife is dead and son is in his 40s today. This guy is an agressive business person, lives to hunt and hunts by himself, in a motarized chair. He had a shop in a little town build him an all aluminum electric operated shooting house that extends 15 ft high. He spends all day, every day of every season, waiting for a deer to walk into his shooting lanes, where he can drive to them in his chair. His brothers cut his lanes for him with a tractor. He hooks up, drags them to his van and lifts them onto the rear with a hoist, drives into the van and drives the van to his MH where he has a skinning rack. He fills his freezer every year.

I have watched this guy for four years and he is amazing in his dedication to hunting. He taught me one thing, I do not have any problems, after watching him.

If you want to hunt bad enough, you can hunt right up to your last breath. Just go around the obsticles.
Ed