I have had the pleasure to introduce all five of my kids to hunting. Two are big time still, two go with me to humor me and be good company and the last has no interest anymore. Grandkids are still a couple years off and only then with mommy’s consent. I figure the eldest will gladly be my hunting partner for the next decade until he discovers girls or goes off to college. I hope to shoot another 20 years but will give it up whenever I can’t do it well enough to have fun. If grandkids are shooting then I’ll just go watch them and enjoy that.
I’m good. Me mum taught me how to go down a slide when I was a little bitty baby.
___________________________ mmmm….motor boatin’
A 60 horse bike, and a 60 horse boat. Keep it under 80, brother.
Best, Ted
_________________________________________________________ I can almost hear the soft rock on the radio, and taste the Diet Pepsi. Sorry if I hurled on you.
There is an easy way to know when it is time to stop hunting and shooting....
If you are a shooter and a gun owner, but feel compelled to vote for anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats., then it is well past time to hang it up. This foolproof test shows you are unable to connect the dots, and you are obviously too mentally unfit to handle firearms. In fact, you should probably stay away from sharp objects like pencils, and switch to crayons.
Unfortunately, there appears to be no cure for this affliction, and you will die stupid.
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
_________________________________________________________ I can almost hear the soft rock on the radio, and taste the Diet Pepsi. Sorry if I hurled on you.
This thread started in 2018 regarding giving up hunting. There are likely very very few of us who have not been forced by events outside our control to give up some physical/recreational activity which we enjoyed, and likely was part of who we were. Some emotional/relational "traumatic amputations" are also pretty painful...and just don't heal. And although diet and exercise matters, most of what determines our long (and good) health is our genetics...for which we have no say...and for which we shouldn't brag. But we can do our best to deal with what we get. When my FGF was in his teens, he had something wrong in his gut, and went to the early days of the Mayo Clinic and was told he would be dead in 2 years. So he went to Central Baptist Seminary in KC Kansas, started waiting to die while giving his life to ministry, continued to have lots of problems (some of which was likely gluten sensitivity which no one knew about back then), and lived to 107.
There are many once young men who were at the 99th percentile who lost a lot, and spent time at Walter Reed, who are more of a man than I'll ever be. They had to decide, as each of us must, if we want to just live...or be alive.
I don't have time for reading books right now. I took down all the window shutters around my house, which required removing 180 screws. Had them repainted. Today I'm putting them back up, on an extension ladder, by myself again. Stopped for a few minutes to get something cold to drink, and cool off. Back to it in a few minutes.
Don't quit. You are never beaten until you give up. Scrap on!
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