I've quit doing a lot of the foolish things like floating the river for ducks or even going duck hunting at the lake alone. Fear isn't the reason, just the realization I can't handle a bad situation alone anymore.

I'm not that old, just sat behind a desk for too many years. Well, that and a stroke and heart surgery. The post about staying home and blowing one's head off was way more scary than any foolishness I might think up in the way of hunting risk...Geo