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    Tahr must be to

    heading away for a week in the Tararuas next week, got go for longer now, takes longer get there and back
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    Older Members?

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    My old man dirtying his wagon. Two nephew’s in tow.
    He’s 74 now and still keener than useless young me.

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    Turned 60 last week. ''Hunt smarter, not harder.'' and as a whitetail hunters quote. ''You don't get fitter hunting Whitetails, you get fatter.''
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    Yep, 64 and out shootin at the weekend.....
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    While I might not be as good as I once was, Im as good once as I ever was!

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    71 this year.
    Still getting out chasing pigs with the dogs etc. once a week.
    A bit slower than the young ones getting to the bail .
    Carried a hind out the other day (100m to the truck) haha., legend.
    I Have 100 traps in the kaimais which keep me busy when the weather is ok and am not working.
    Fortunate to be in reasonable health an will keep hunting as long as I can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nevereadyfreddy View Post
    Fortunate to be in reasonable health an will keep hunting as long as I can.
    I like to think of it the other way around: "so long as I stay hunting I'll keep in reasonable health"

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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    I like to think of it the other way around: "so long as I stay hunting I'll keep in reasonable health"
    That is how I think now and like a few others on this thread I've been through the mill in regards to health issues,heart etc,old news now.
    At one time I had convinced myself that that was that and I was poked as far as hunting went. Fused disks,others not lookin great etc.
    But nah as time went on I was back into it,but careful as we go.
    I honestly believe that if your frame of mind is not too bad then yeah,go for it but know your bodies call and take it easy when need be.
    Bugger ol age but hey If it's commin to an end,,, then I'd like to be sittin on a ridge lookin down into a bush filled gully watching mist slowly creepin it's way up...... lol What a load of dribble eh..bugger it why not.
    It's a old age thing right?

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    Sadly we dont have a choice how or when we die in our life time, but what we do have the option of is how we choose to live it.
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    Until Jacinda and co came along that is !
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    Greetings All,
    This has been a very good thread and I thought I would, as a card carrying old fudd, offer a few observations on the old and the young. When we were young we moved through life looking forward. Every new thing was grasped with enthusiasm. We made mistakes, some of which left our elders mumbling in their beards having made similar mistakes in the past. We were young fit and the future seemed endless. Our elders knew better.
    As we became old there was more of life to look back on than look forward to. New things were regarded with suspicion or even hostility. We tend to cling to our old ways event to our detriment. At some point on or about our sixtieth birthday we loose all ability to tolerate the endless repeating of yesterdays mistakes by the younger generations and we may descend into being a grumpy old fart.
    None of this is carved in stone. As older rifle people we may not breathlessly embrace every new cartridge or handloading widget but should try to profit from some of the useful new kit and try not to reject new stuff out of hand (I am thinking of electric vehicles, climate change and the like here). The future will arrive whether we like it or not and we will have to deal with it. I can't speak for the young as my membership card for that group has long been cancelled but they could profit from learning from the older generations experience where relevant.
    Regards Grandpamac.
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    I would suggest, that most of us here are at the positive end of the age scale, all the young guns, are communicating in Tinder or Kindling or some such thumb driven, method...

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    I’ve even mulling over all that’s been lost in my lifetime ie freedom to choose whether to wear seatbelts and helmets etc (good!) and the loss of firecracker and centre fire semi autos (bad)

    Sadly the ( bad) list has got longer and longer-as time has gone by, I would get depressed if I listed all the (bad) changes I have seen in the last 55+ years…

    But life goes on!
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    Quote Originally Posted by turtle View Post
    Am I allowed to say this still ?
    Absolutely! You earned the right in jungle green.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil_H View Post
    Reading this thread there are a lot of guys here that truly impress me and I can only hope to be doing what they are doing when I reach their age.
    I am determined, myself, to surrender as little physical condition to age, as health, circumstance and environment demands. My diet over the last 10 years has changed seismically, my exercise, while not as intense as little as 10 -15 years ago is more focused and regular.

    As others here have already expressed here, within the landscape of what your general health already is, either by natures design or accident, what we retain is all about choice.

    Here a couple of pictures with quotes that I keep looking at to spur me along........

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    This guy was 73 years of age when this was taken. First time I saw it I thought it may have been @Tahr....I still have 7 years ahead of me to get myself looking like that...

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    I like that idea that "I will change the way I age"

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    But this one I like the best. Don't be put off by what others can do, just get out and do something and you are already ahead of those on couch.

    Cheers
    Phil
    Well said Phil

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    We’ve got a family friend who comes out pig hunting with his son at the farm, he played a big part in my hunting interest. He’s 85 now and uses the quad a bit. We had him on a horse the other day, and he looked every bit as capable as a bloke half his age.


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