I just read Geezer Meat Hunting and that's for me. I have been fortunate to have hunted several western states and Alaska and Africa both twice. Not as much as some but still no complaints. There isn't much room for any more big game mounts and the small game has spilled over to my "Man Cave" house in the U.P. as the wife calls it. There is a Woodcock mount there nestled between a Sharptail and a Hungarian Partridge from Manitoba.
I can deer hunt here in Michigan with a rifle from November 15 through January 1 and although I hunt most of those days I usually end up taking a doe. My brother (a non hunter) and his wife love the meat and as my wife isn't much on being a meat eater and heaven forbid she sink her teeth into a backstrap I shoot and process the doe for them. In recent years I have gone to Texas for some exotics (the Axis is the beast venison I've had) and go to Georgia each year for a Quail hunt. My friends and I can eat the birds and the venison gets eaten up when I'm in the U.P. I spend the month of October up there grouse hunting.
I would love to go to Montana and hunt a cow elk. I'm closing in on 72 and have survived bone cancer and covid but as I'm somewhat vertically challenged so huffing up a mountain isn't in the cards and there is no place for another shoulder elk mount.
I'm happy to be a Geezer who can still roll his own ammo and get outdoors and hunt a bird or a deer. It's the joy of being in a hunting environment with good friends and good dogs and if meat is put in the freezer so much the better.
Last edited by GSPfan; 02/19/24.
