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 Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: janie]
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11/17/13 01:48 AM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
WTH??? Thats BS.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: janie]
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11/17/13 02:10 AM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
I'd be on another lease then. Sorry to hear that Janie
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: MikeC]
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11/17/13 02:11 AM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
I'd be on another lease then. Sorry to hear that Janie No kids no wives, I would have been out of there.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 02:17 AM
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A natural progression.
You get older, you've killed 100's of deer it just isn't as exciting as it once was.
I know guys who are older(70's) and they may actually go sit once or twice a year. They don't care to kill anything and they are ok with it.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: MikeC]
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11/17/13 02:28 AM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
I'd be on another lease then. Sorry to hear that Janie The individual who "reports to the lease manager/owner" has never been fond of female's or kids. It is what it is. I offered to sleep in our truck, so the fellas had full access to the bunk house. No response. I know when I'm whipped.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: janie]
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11/17/13 02:38 AM
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It is also would be discrimination. There is info about EEO that covers renting and leases. From memory I think it said it is a federal crime to discriminate on leases, didn't mention house, apartment or hunting lease. 
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: janie]
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11/17/13 03:09 AM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
Very sad. I work hard at making my property family oriented. One year, one of the hunters, his wife and two children came in a couple of days before Thanksgiving. They had their family Thanksgiving dinner at the camphouse. Some of the guys began to drift in later that afternoon and got turkey leftovers for supper.  I hope you can find a place like ours.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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I am kinda there now...I really enjoy sitting in the pickup or in the blind with my son and grandson. Don't hunt alone any longer because I can't walk very far and I would be in a mess if I had to look for one. I have and will try to continue to do my "watching". My son really enjoys hunting and his family loves venison. We have had a time since losing our hunting place two years ago. We are lucky to have a couple small places to hunt because of good friends. We are hoping to get back down to a friends MLD south of Sonora this year. I am the chief cook and bottle washer. Once I couldn't wait to deer hunt...now I just enjoy the opportunity to be involved with my family...
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 03:43 AM
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My 16 year old granddaughter has just told me that she wants to hunt. That's great news to me. Like aeb, I've been working on building up the whitetail gene pool on our place, and I can see that my efforts have been successful. Maybe the grandkid can shoot one of the nice bucks that we have now. I've been passing on the big bucks and hunting spikes and culls. And then there's the pig and coyote hunting that I really enjoy. So...I'm still involved, but not really 'hunting horns' any more.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 05:49 AM
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Wow, there's a lot of emotion/nostalgia in this thread I know I've slowed down a bit but not too much yet. some of you have done what I'm doing now and that's passing to the next generations the wonders of the great outdoors and a life well lived. I think it's pretty awesome we get the opportunity to do that, my Dad didn't get to he died when I was 10. We're blessed!
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: janie]
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11/17/13 11:03 AM
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My pop is 81. We still make a week long hunt in the hill country. Been doing it for 22 yrs
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 11:26 AM
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Great comments. I am asking the same questions of myself; when to stop if ever. I don't want to be a pain to guides or friends; but realize what you could do in your forties is not possible as you enter your seventies. Just so grateful for the opportunites I have had. However, I love the Toby Keith song phrase " I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was." Not quite done yet.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 02:01 PM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
I'd be on another lease then. Sorry to hear that Janie The individual who "reports to the lease manager/owner" has never been fond of female's or kids. It is what it is. I offered to sleep in our truck, so the fellas had full access to the bunk house.thatoo No response. I know when I'm whipped. Theyed be looking for TWO replacements, sorry ta hear that. 
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: 1860.colt]
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11/17/13 02:45 PM
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It's a natural progression for most. Having the blessed opportunity to sit where I want, when I want there is none of the inherent competition that exists in most leases/clubs. This morning I watched around 20 does and fawns come in from every direction, and an overachieving small 6 pointer chase as many as he could-unsuccessfully- until his tongue was hanging out.
I love the woods, I love the feeling you get when seeing deer, I love watching bucks grow over the years. I no longer feel that I have to shoot one to prove anything to anyone- including myself.
An acquaintance came out to the place several years ago. The conversation evolved to deer hunting. He remarked how he was and had been on a lease with his son for many years, and his son could not understand why Dad didn't want to shoot deer. His dad told him "because I'm not mad at them anymore".
It's the natural progression of a hunter. With age comes increasing respect for the animals you hunt coupled with an evolving respect for life- in any form.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 02:46 PM
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Haven't fired a shot in several years, I guess I'm more into seeing other enjoy themselves than myself. The next buck will have to go at least 170 before I pull the trigger and that's only going to happen if GOD smiles on me. Looks like I'm going to have another surgery on my left shoulder and my bow hunting days may be over (Not much left to work with). So what do you do when you decide to call it quits? I'll continue to do my Vet hunts as long as I'm able to but at a some point you decide it's over for yourself. Maybe just being able to share is the end result and I've always enjoyed that. I hate that you've worked your body into being worn out, but that must be due to many miles. As an elder, you're doing the right thing teaching others, and taking vets hunting. In any case you're still seeing the sunrise and set, and you're still in the field. When I'm worn down I plan to have a very cushy box blind that I can easily get in and out of. I'll be happy to sit and read a book, in the quiet. If I get a shot, that's just a bonus. (That's my attitude now!) Hopefully the Optometrist can still keep my vision good enough to cover a whole bunch of ground like I do now. Ha!
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 03:01 PM
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
WHAT? You're a hunter, you hunt. Gender doesn't make the equation. I'll sponsor you on my lease. With what's-her-name along to keep it all above board.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 03:16 PM
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I quit killing in the mid nineties. I will give up the hunting with my grandkids and hopefully great grans when I kick the bucket. I think I get buck fever worse now than I did when I was doing the shooting. 
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 03:29 PM
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Wow, FiremanJG just described my present hunting style. Box blind, heater, swivel chair, good book, hot coffee,great binocs, rifle in the corner. It sure works for me. I'll shoot a spike or cull per year, for the freezer, and then hunt the evil coyote or pig. My hunting today is nothing like my hunting at 20 or 30 years of age, but I still enjoy it. I'm so lucky to have my own little place, with my own blinds. No hunting pressure at all, and few (if any) rifle hunters within a mile.
I guess that the only problem I have is that the biggest buck on the place will be in my front yard quite often eating acorns. That puts him in the no-fire zone, per the wife. I can't seem to get close to him outside the no-fire zone. I say that I don't hunt horns anymore, but that guy has great antlers. I might have to make an exception and hunt those horns.
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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11/17/13 04:15 PM
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As long as I am eating, I am hunting for food! I understand where some get bored of the leasing/traveling routine. I was fortunate/unfortunate enough to have several time periods in my life when I was unable to hunt (Military service, graduate school, first baby). Now, baring no bad family situations, I am in it for the "long haul"! Buying your own land changes the perspective as well.
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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At just past 69, and 3 years later after getting over a 5 year series of mulitiple medical events, a dozen or so surgeries of various kinds, 18 months + of PT rehab and semi successfully avoiding the diagnosis of permanent paralysis of my right shoulder and arm, and finally giving up on the idea of regaining functional sight in my left non shooting eye after a 13 years fight...I ain't thru hunting or fishing just quite yet....mebbe next year, or the year after, or the year after, or...
Here's a BIG Time Shout out and Thank You to the folks at the Dallas Veterans Hospital in Dallas in 5 different Specialty Clinics & Judy St Clair the PT Specialist Dept Mgr at Bonham who would not give up on putting me back together to acheive a reasonable Quality of Life when all I could see ahead was " why waste the effort".
Can I hunt or fish as I could at 60, or 50, or earlier ??? obviously not. But that doesn't mean I can't accept the physical limitations of my earthly body, work around the fact that I'll never pull off a high altitude Rockies Hunt again and enjoy my remaining time doing what I like best to do before being called Home. I learned to shoot longer ranges on moving live targets in the Trinity River bottoms west of downtown Carrollton in the late 1960's on river rats we had baited with stale bread and had a blast doing it. A 243 at 250-300 yards with maxed out HP's is spectacular...and I'd love to find another place like that even today...who needs prairie dogs anyway.
Most of my gang of Lease Partners are already gone or on the porch in the rocking chair. The one I am closest to just had a rotator cuff rebuild last Friday that lasted 3 times too long on the table to get everything to attach and hold in place ... at 72 ... but took one last hunt 2 weeks ago that finally convinced him he could not hit anything after missing 3 shots on 3 different deer 'cause the rifle was so wobbly on his shoulder & LOL of course took the 30'06 instead of an ex wifes 243 to baby the dinged up shoulder with...and this is a guy who used to guide the Western Slope of Colorado and sleep thru blizzards in snow banks...I think he's done but won't admit it. He just survived a 2+ year Cancer battle, had started to get his weight back and was enjoying getting back in the game when the shoulder fell apart.
Nope I ain't thru just yet, Venison still tastes the way it always did for me, and big horns would be a bonus but are not necessary... but this explains my "work around" attitude in looking for Less Recoil Solutions and limiting my shots to 300+ yards since I have very little if any Depth Perception with just the right eye to work with.
Mebbe some day someone will find me "asleep" under a tree with a rifle in my lap...and that's as it should be, since my biggest nightmare is to be incarcerated in a hospital bed by a greedy Doctor who refuses to Honor my Do Not Resusitate - No Heroic Measures Order.
Ron
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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A year ago. Our lease is no longer "female's welcome"
WTH??? Thats BS. WOW, have seen leases were people argue over rack size, now this  would quit hunting on that lease
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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[s][/s][quote=WileyCoyote]At just past 69, and 3 years later after getting over a 5 year series of mulitiple medical events, a dozen or so surgeries of various kinds, 18 months + of PT rehab and semi successfully avoiding the diagnosis of permanent paralysis of my right shoulder and arm, and finally giving up on the idea of regaining functional sight in my left non shooting eye after a 13 years fight...I ain't thru hunting or fishing just quite yet....mebbe next year, or the year after, or the year after, or...
Here's a BIG Time Shout out and Thank You to the folks at the Dallas Veterans Hospital in Dallas in 5 different Specialty Clinics & Judy St Clair the PT Specialist Dept Mgr at Bonham who would not give up on putting me back together to acheive a reasonable Quality of Life when all I could see ahead was " why waste the effort".
Can I hunt or fish as I could at 60, or 50, or earlier ??? obviously not. But that doesn't mean I can't accept the physical limitations of my earthly body, work around the fact that I'll never pull off a high altitude Rockies Hunt again and enjoy my remaining time doing what I like best to do before b
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: WileyCoyote]
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11/17/13 05:28 PM
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At just past 69, and 3 years later after getting over a 5 year series of mulitiple medical events, a dozen or so surgeries of various kinds, 18 months + of PT rehab and semi successfully avoiding the diagnosis of permanent paralysis of my right shoulder and arm, and finally giving up on the idea of regaining functional sight in my left non shooting eye after a 13 years fight...I ain't thru hunting or fishing just quite yet....mebbe next year, or the year after, or the year after, or...
Here's a BIG Time Shout out and Thank You to the folks at the Dallas Veterans Hospital in Dallas in 5 different Specialty Clinics & Judy St Clair the PT Specialist Dept Mgr at Bonham who would not give up on putting me back together to acheive a reasonable Quality of Life when all I could see ahead was " why waste the effort".
Can I hunt or fish as I could at 60, or 50, or earlier ??? obviously not. But that doesn't mean I can't accept the physical limitations of my earthly body, work around the fact that I'll never pull off a high altitude Rockies Hunt again and enjoy my remaining time doing what I like best to do before being called Home. I learned to shoot longer ranges on moving live targets in the Trinity River bottoms west of downtown Carrollton in the late 1960's on river rats we had baited with stale bread and had a blast doing it. A 243 at 250-300 yards with maxed out HP's is spectacular...and I'd love to find another place like that even today...who needs prairie dogs anyway.
Most of my gang of Lease Partners are already gone or on the porch in the rocking chair. The one I am closest to just had a rotator cuff rebuild last Friday that lasted 3 times too long on the table to get everything to attach and hold in place ... at 72 ... but took one last hunt 2 weeks ago that finally convinced him he could not hit anything after missing 3 shots on 3 different deer 'cause the rifle was so wobbly on his shoulder & LOL of course took the 30'06 instead of an ex wifes 243 to baby the dinged up shoulder with...and this is a guy who used to guide the Western Slope of Colorado and sleep thru blizzards in snow banks...I think he's done but won't admit it. He just survived a 2+ year Cancer battle, had started to get his weight back and was enjoying getting back in the game when the shoulder fell apart.
Nope I ain't thru just yet, Venison still tastes the way it always did for me, and big horns would be a bonus but are not necessary... but this explains my "work around" attitude in looking for Less Recoil Solutions and limiting my shots to 300+ yards since I have very little if any Depth Perception with just the right eye to work with.
Mebbe some day someone will find me "asleep" under a tree with a rifle in my lap...and that's as it should be, since my biggest nightmare is to be incarcerated in a hospital bed by a greedy Doctor who refuses to Honor my Do Not Resusitate - No Heroic Measures Order.
Ron Wounded Warrior
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
[Re: 1860.colt]
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I'll never quit until it ceases to be fun.
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Go get him! Shoot him in the face!
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Re: So when do you quit hunting?
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