Smokepole, you might want to extend that "long term" goal. My stepfather killed, quartered and packed out his last elk by himself when he was 75. It was only in a little over a mile but he did it all on foot both ways. I think he could have gone a couple more years but a non cancerous tumor in his gut put him out the following year and he decided he liked eating beef more so hung up his rifle. There is still much to be done in the later years.
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― G. Orwell
"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?" _Eileen Clarke
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