So here I am 55 and wondering if I'll still be ambulatory at 70 to still go hunting.
I sure hope I can do this past 70 with the amount of jingle I have wrapped up in this.
Wifey was born on a horse so she can still ride
I would add I really try to buy good gear because when I croak she will be selling all my crap here to you guys.

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Originally posted by DUKE NUKEM:
So here I am 55 and wondering if I'll still be ambulatory at 70 to still go hunting.
I sure hope I can do this past 70 with the amount of jingle I have wrapped up in this.
Barbie was born on a horse so she can still ride even though she has intermittent joint problems.
As of now we are still both lean and still mountain bike. Majority of Barbie joint problem were diagnosed back to dehydration having been a transplant of WA and OR.
I would add I really try to buy good gear because when I croak she will be selling all my crap here to you guys.

Hey Duke, somebody hack your account? Or just a heavy Bourbon night?

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Originally posted by rnovi:

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Originally posted by DUKE NUKEM:
So here I am 55 and wondering if I'll still be ambulatory at 70 to still go hunting.
I sure hope I can do this past 70 with the amount of jingle I have wrapped up in this.
Barbie was born on a horse so she can still ride even though she has intermittent joint problems.
As of now we are still both lean and still mountain bike. Majority of Barbie joint problem were diagnosed back to dehydration having been a transplant of WA and OR.
I would add I really try to buy good gear because when I croak she will be selling all my crap here to you guys.

Hey Duke, somebody hack your account? Or just a heavy Bourbon night?

Just bored. Trimming thousands of cases is mind numbing.
I have never drank alcohol BTW. I'm more of a skirt chaser.
I guess I need to go build something so I'll stop thinking.

Relax DUKE, I have an uncle living in Cyprus who is 88yrs old and still ' shoots flying' regularly with his 12ga s/s!

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Originally posted by lal:
Relax DUKE, I have an uncle living in Cyprus who is 88yrs old and still ' shoots flying' regularly with his 12ga s/s!

That's good to here.

My dad hunted until he was 85 when a stroke did him in.

Duke,
You've got today! No promises about tomorrow.
You only need to wake up once hooked to the tubes and monitors to know that today is the day to live.
Enjoy today.
Bfly

You're a baby yet.

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You've got today! No promises about tomorrow.

Greatest response ever, and none of us are even guaranteed the whole day.

I'd go with the 300 WM pushing a 180 grain TSX or TTSX. I'm currently using IMR 7828 in mine.

Live life. I had a custom built rifle made when I was 60. I ain't taking the money with me.

Take care of your self and stay in shape. You will be fine.

I am 57. I am an exercise fanatic. Some days as much as 4 hours a day. Among other hunts, I have 2 sheep hunts this year. I am not going to stop or slow down any time soon. Nor do I see any physical issues forcing me too.

The year is 2065 age 97.....

The last thing I remembered before going to the "light".

I'm just on this side of 80, had a stint and two baloon plastwhatevers in my ticker, total hand reconstruction, and back surgery this year, The eyes got bad so got glasses and lasiks surgery, I have shot so much I don't hear well, and that caused Bursitas but its been my only bad year so far.

But I'm back horseback now and steer (team) roping again, The damn hand finally got to where I can shoot the big bores again. I hunted deer and elk this year and I hunt coyotes ever now and then..

Yes you can keep hunting if you want to, but only if you want to. There "will be" more pain involved as you age, the mornings are tougher, and you may have to pace yourself, but all these things that take effort will keep your body fit and able, so my advise is remember getting old ain't for sissies and you just have to cowboy up!

Oh yeah! Don't forget your metamucil. You will most likey have to piss a lot as the prostate ages, and with heavy clothes on that's a bitch, and you might forget where you are and how you got there so carry a bull horn on a sling with you everywhere you go and write your name on a tag and pin it to your shirt!

Surestrike,

Wouldn't that be great!!!!!!!!!!

Damn Ray. After reading your post, I feel so good now.....

You will be able to do whatever you keep in shape to do. And that means not sitting on your butt any more than is genuinely needed. Every kind of physical activity helps as long as it isn't too strenuous, and you get at lest 7 hours sleep every night.

Most important, keep your total daily sodium intake below 1200 mg. That is easy if you read the labels on everything until you know what fits your preferences/diet. It does mean to stay away from ALL condensed soup, bakery prepared pastries, bacon/ham/cheeses and McDeath meals/burgers, etc.

Low sodium versions of most foods, even french fries, pretzels and potato chips are okay. Canola cooking oil is totally sodium free. Beef, and other meats are okay as long as you prepare them at home without salting them either during cooking or afterward. All fruits and almost all veggies are perfectly okay too.

You really want to protect that heart, and most commercially prepared cooked foods are a fatal no-no because of the high sodium levels american manufacturers have addicted us to.

I wish someone had explained all that to me before I began living mainly on weiners, sausage, bagles and lots of bread products.

Anyway, Good luck and best wishes.

AC

P.S., Online the US government provides a printable 26-page single-spaced list of almost every food product there is, with its sodium content for one serving of each...it is list #17. Can't recall right now if it on the FDA site or the Dept. of Agriculture site, but if you get really interested, I'll look it up for you.

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Wouldn't that be great!!!!!!!!!!

Impala yes it would be great. And even better when I left my lovely bride that morning she was just getting back from her morning swim. After a night of playful antics of course...

Surestrike!
I'm calling you out on that one. There are no sandy beaches in Northern CO!!!

Whenever I start feeling old I book a hunt. Great motivation to stay in shape and I haven't regretted one yet.

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Originally posted by pagosawingnut:
Surestrike!
I'm calling you out on that one. There are no sandy beaches in Northern CO!!!

I concur. I lived in CO until 1989 and the girls there did not look like that. I did however leave for AZ after it was 20 below for a week in CO. The other deciding factor is the indigenous female gender of AZ mirrored the fine trophy you posted. As most here have stated after returning from Safari a fine trophy is surely worthy of mounting.
I will add I do prefer my trophies to be more heavily augmented.

They do look like that, you just have to get their baseball caps off, untie their pony tails and get their ski parkas off ...

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Originally posted by pagosawingnut:
Surestrike!
I'm calling you out on that one. There are no sandy beaches in Northern CO!!!

Pagosa,

This is my story and I'm sticking to it!

My father is 73 and is still hunting and is in great shape.
My grandfather hunted reindeer in the Norwegian mountains when he was 81.
I hope I will be able to hunt reindeer at that age too.
But in case I don't, I try to get as much hunting done now as possible

Duke I would be glad to keep your "good gear" down here. That way she won't be able to sell it.

The least I can do for a "good gear guy"!

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I lived in CO until 1989 and the girls there did not look like that. I did however leave for AZ after it was 20 below for a week in CO. The other deciding factor is the indigenous female gender of AZ mirrored the fine trophy you posted. As most here have stated after returning from Safari a fine trophy is surely worthy of mounting.
I will add I do prefer my trophies to be more heavily augmented.

Here I go again being an outlyer, but I am different. As long as she is in shape, takes care of herself, and has good eyes, a great smile and the right heart, I am happy. Plastic is expensive and fake. You can't fake a heart... Just go with me, revel in what I revel in, and be strong where I am weak, weak where I am strong. Be my companion, not my millstone, and we will be just fine. And we will hunt/fish together as long as my physical frame will last. I am currently fighting cancer, and although I will beat it, it changes one's priorities.

BTW, I have been divorced for 13-1/2 years, and in my estimation, overwhelmingly, if they are on the street, there is a reason they are on the street!

Duke, you are of the age where taking care of yourself involves more than exercise... get that colononscopy yearly or as often as the MD advises, take care of that heart, and think young. Makes a world of difference. I am almost 59 and am having a custom 400 H&H built, hoping to head to the dark continent in a year or so. I won't be able to walk six or eight miles for a buff due to a bad back, but I will make the most of what I can do.

We only get one crack at this globe. Make it count.

If I lived in Colorado and that lady was hanging around my abode, I'd order truck loads of sand and water, a quart jar of Viagra and build a beach!

Dream on dreamer!

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Originally posted by Black Fly:
Duke,
You've got today! No promises about tomorrow.
You only need to wake up once hooked to the tubes and monitors to know that today is the day to live.
Enjoy today.
Bfly

+1 Very well said. Don't put off your plans Duke. Tomorrow may never come for you.

Hey, duke:
I have no idea as to your physical condition. Lottsa broken bones from bull riding? Played pro football & ended up with every injury imaginable? But, in general, I don't think you should worry very much. My "thing" in hunting is for Dall sheep. I have absolutely no intention of quitting any time soon, and I'm 66. True, we can't go this year but we sure as the dickens are going next year. I keep telling my partner that if something happens to me in the mountains, he's to just leave me there for the bears. doesn't go over too well with my wife but...
My advice is that you should do what you want as much as you can while you're still physically able. Every year you don't go is one year less that you have to do it. Keep it up & don't stop. At your age, you're just a young whippersnapper.
Bear in Fairbanks

I'm 53 now and I hope to still be sheep hunting at 85. Probably take me that long to find a legal one. Looking forward to facing down a cape buffalo charge at 90. Probably take me that long to save up the money.

I'd kind of like to be like my great grandfather. He got married at 103. The neighbors asked him why he wanted to get married at 103. His reply, "didn't want to, I had to".

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Originally posted by mart:
I'm 53 now and I hope to still be sheep hunting at 85. Probably take me that long to find a legal one. Looking forward to facing down a cape buffalo charge at 90. Probably take me that long to save up the money.

I'd kind of like to be like my great grandfather. He got married at 103. The neighbors asked him why he wanted to get married at 103. His reply, "didn't want to, I had to".

Nice! My friend's grandfather is 98 and is looking for a girlfriend, though I have my doubts. When he walked up to their Thanksgiving dinner table last year his great grandson said "Great Grandpa, your fly is open!" Without skipping a beat he said "Can't get up, can't get out" and sat down to dinner...

I think you have to find something to keep yourself in shape when you go past about 70 at least..I rope steers with family members about two or three times a week in the summer and I'll rope about 25 head or more on two horses and I'm plumb wore out these days..I also rope competively on some weekends..Taking care of both horses, keeping them rode and in shape to rope is a chore and sometimes I have to make myself do or my wife nags me into it...

If you become a couch tater, your toast..Most folks only hunt hard, a few weeks out of the year, not counting varmints and tree stands, so the rest of the year requires some thought as to exercise..weight and stuff are good but cardio is the secret. I rope and ride because I'm adverse to walking every day.

Do it its worth it and will hopefully add years to your life unless you slip on a banana peel and break your neck@

Thanks guys. I'm still around and still vertical. lol

I'm 62 and could hunt if I wanted to. I have just lost interest. But, I still like shooting, reloading, and rifle collecting. I shoot every Friday morning at the local range. I find shooting and reloading just as much fun as hunting. Besides, all of my hunting buddies, the guys I used to work with just all vanished when I retired. They no longer call, email or come by. They never respond when I tried to contact them. So, I just said to hell with them and I just do things by myself. I have more fun anyway as a grouchy, grumpy, old fart. But, I do still play guitar and banjo at clubs in Tampa, so I have enough of being around people.
joe

Hell Joe, don't worry about them not calling if you live as long as I have all the bastards will be dead, Most my old friends have died of old age and my good clients have gotten too old to hunt, natures way of making life easier! ..

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Hell Joe, don't worry about them not calling if you live as long as I have all the bastards will be dead, Most my old friends have died of old age and my good clients have gotten too old to hunt, natures way of making life easier! ..

Tell you what, Ray; you row and I'll steer. roger

I agree Ray, I agree.
joe

I just turned 62 while guideing a bear hunt last week,we have a fairly long trapline,have a gillnetter in Bristol Bay,guide or hunt sheep almost every year,hunt and kill a moose or 2 (wife's)every year, live the rigors of bush household ai,,keeping about 10 machines running, and a big house (by bush standards,and just had a couple of enjoyable hours with my wife. 4 years ago had the whole heart shebang and take a bunch of pills. My guess is I'll probably still be going at 70!

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Hell Joe, don't worry about them not calling if you live as long as I have all the bastards will be dead, Most my old friends have died of old age and my good clients have gotten too old to hunt, natures way of making life easier! ..

Ray, your memory must be slipping as you still have plenty of PITA friends to help keep you on the straight and narrow

Dad and I last chased elk when he was 75. It's been 10 years and he's still bugging me to go again.