Have you every said this is my last hunting trip/season based on health?

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I think this is the first year, I wont buy a licence. I so want to go but all the young guys that I have mentored over the years. All of them have family
conmentents and can not go. My old group is all dead. I stopped hunting for a bit until I got into mentoring others. And hunted with them for the last few years. Now, I am back on my own. With heath issues.
 
kamlooky said:
Take a shotgun and go plunk some grouse.
Never say never.
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I agree.... knew a guy that was friend of dad's in my youth...... he passed at 94......

But right up to then, he carried his double barrel down our unmaintained gravel road daily to work on his garden...... picked off a few grouse here and there.....

When we did deer camp there, he showed as he pleased and gave tips..... and never would take a stand no matter how much I asked him to...... but he always showed at end of day to see if we were successful....

I made sure he got his share of meat every year and it was appreciated......

Never stop being as involved as you can......
 
Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep going and keep hunting. It adds to our days on earth.

I always enjoy the visits from the old hands. They add to my hunting camp pleasure and take me back to days shared with my dad before his passing.

Best wishes on your hunting season this year.
 
An older hunting buddy of mine has had a couple of years off from our annual moose hunting trip due to health issues. He always threatens to stop going because he feels he can't do as much as he use to. He does most of the cooking so that is a big help all on it's own.
I drag my old diesel toyota up there (it's my quad with heat and wipers) and typically I get him to drop me where I want to hunt and pick me up at lunch or at dark...depending on the day. I let him have the truck all day so if he gets tired of walking or sitting he can drive around and look for a moose. It works good for both of us.
He also likes to drive so he does a good chunk of the driving up there and back.
 
I decided four years to quit hunting due to health issues and never really missed not going out each fall. A couple of month's ago I sold off all my firearms except one, my old inline muzzleloader. I also kept all the assessories for it just in case. If I get the urge to go for a walk and a sit somewhere, I can still legally shoot a couple of deer.
 
ya, I have a great deal of difficulty hunting these days but I love it so much I would never make the decision to quit unless I was forced too physically.
It's too much a part of my life and what makes me the man I am.
BUT I'm very broken physically and with that i carry a lot of pain and it's really starting to catch up to me.
I will hunt till I'm in a wheelchair..... then we'll see.
I figure I got 3 to 5 years left on my legs and I'm sure when I can't walk anymore, my friends will still wheel me into a good shootin spot hahaha
 
I can relate the body giving in on you and have had my fair share of physical ailments lately. I was going to pass on deer hunting last year due to doctor's and wife's orders but my nephew of all people walked into the shop and said" If I have to carry you to the swamp I will". Way to guilt the old boy into hunting with a statement like that and I tend to take things like that personally.

Long story short I hunted as much as I could. Weather was 75 degrees all week and hunting sucked and deer were not moving had 2 by Saturday night which we are usually tagged out by Tues or Wed. Sunday morning comes finally a little frost in the air and I did not want to get out but sucked it up. Turns out the two old boys, myself and another fried my age with bad knees, that were not supposed to be hunting were the only ones to get up and we both shot bucks that morning. Luckily mine went down in the field and I could drive the truck to it, loading was a chore but it got done. Buddy buggered his knee worse, by being to stubborn to call for help and is just getting around the surgery now. Needless to say the youngsters took a lesson in humility and fortitude that morning.

Just when you think you are done you may have one more hunt left. Good luck and if that chair needs a push I am sure I or a few others here may be able to help. Yes we have the retired hunters come by on butchering day and they all leave with a feed of backstrap and we take pride in doing so as many were instrumental in implementing and maintaining the local muzzeloader hunt we have today.
 
I live to hunt, I'll be going until I just can't go anymore! I won't sit out a season for any reason, cuz ya just never know when your number gets called! Last yr could have unknowingly been your last hunt!
 
Have bad feet from Diabetese and now the chemo therapy from my cancer treatment is messing with my feet even more, debating with myself whether or not to buy a license and plan a hunt.

One consideration is that regardless the money goes to conservation
 
The last few years my Pa was alive he still came out to bush camp with us. He generally stayed in camp and did the cooking/dishes and then would walk a few hundred yards from camp either hunting grouse or finding a good place to sit and watch an area. His guidance, wisdom, cooking and humour were always a welcome addition to camp and everyone said so openly.

In his later years, when we didn't go to bush camp very much anymore, he bought a couple of 410 single shot shotguns and took my children hunting with him on our own land. My daughters own those shotguns to this very day and both hunt regularly. My middle daughter took up the Eva Shockey challenge and shot her elk while pregnant a year ago.

I pretty much quit big game hunting a number of years ago but I still buy my Upland licence and try to get out as much as possible, and we do our best to lay a hurtin' on the coyotes around here. I also run my own "trapline" of game cameras on our land just for poops and giggles. Shooting and firearms are pretty much a way of life in our family and I am lucky that my sons in law are both avid shooters and hunters as well. This might sound odd but for the last few years I have really enjoyed buying new firearms and giving them to one of my family as surprise gifts. No occasion, just SURPRISE! I also have assembled a few Mauser 96's that I bought from TradeEx and gave them to family which gives me a reason to spend time at the bench and enjoy putting interesting "puzzles" together and whittle on some wood stocks.
Dave​
 
Last year I bought my bird license in August and went out a number of times. Later in the fall, I was in an accident and I broke a few bones. I didn't hunt after I got out of the hospital. My regular hunting buddy died last year.
This year, I haven't bought a tag yet. I am still waiting for my appointment to see a specialist about my shoulder. I guess I am going to sit this year out, probably be back at it next year.
 
I would like to think I have two or three more decades in me, but I am going through this with my father... he have up waterfowling ten years ago, then quit moose hunting five years ago... it is a bigger struggle each year to keep him out in the whitetail woods every fall... but we are good for this year.
 
I'm not quite 60 yet, and this was the first year that I really noticed how much more strenuous bushwhacking seems to have become. I guess the bushes are getting tougher? :)

In any case, I've pretty much admitted that some of the more physically-demanding forms of hunting are probably out of reach now; it looks like that Altai Argali isn't in the cards for me.:) But I recall how brutal it was to be forced to sit out an entire hunting season a number of years ago due to a serious auto accident, and I don't intend to throw in the towel as long as I am able to still get out there. Hey, you can have a fatal stroke or heart attack anywhere; at home, in your car, at the grocery store or walking the dog. I'd rather kick the bucket while hunting!
 
My friend told me if I didn't leave the house the battle was already lost. Sometimes it takes a few $ to hunt with diminished mobility. You can't take it with you, and revenue Canada will take their's...
 
emerson said:
My friend told me if I didn't leave the house the battle was already lost. Sometimes it takes a few $ to hunt with diminished mobility. You can't take it with you, and revenue Canada will take their's...
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Your friend gave you good advice. We have an old fella that hunted with us for many years who is now battling Alzheimers. He couldn't tell you what he had for lunch,but,he still knew where he was and which watch he used and how to get to it and was the only hunter to drop a Buck on last years gun hunt. He's to the point,now,that he's having trouble remembering names,dates and places. He needs to write everything down that he wants to do. He still wants to hunt with us this year,he can still shoot and handle a firearm alright,but,the guys are scared to death if he wanders away,we'll never find him. The sad thing is that's he's only 50 and in excellent physical shape. I'm glad I'm not the hunt boss that has to make this decision. It'd just tear me up.
 
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