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Hey! I resemble that remark!

You're also an old hunter if you don't lug half the camp up the mountain in a pack full of rangefinders, spotting scopes, bi-tri-pods, GPS, a roll of TP, walkie-talkies, maps, and the kitchen sink.

Old black man came in the shop Mebbe 30 years ago and wanted to buy six 32
Revolver ctgs. Salesman asked him if he needed 32 longs or shorts he said and I quote, "jez gives me da long ones, iz snips em off til dey fits."

You're an old hunter when even after you've been watching your diet and working out for years, muscles and ligaments often start hurting for no apparent reason--and take four times as long to heal!

JB, I feel that way in my mid 40's.

SO?

Most all the postings in this thread are true of me but I take issue with the term "OLD" when what you describe is what we all do - isn't it?

My deer "camo" is a Johnson Mills red/black wool plaid coat and Malone wool pants. My favorite deer rifle is a model 64 Win. in 32 Special.
My compass is a Marble brass (new 1948), my boots are Chippewa, my Montgomery Wards green/black plaid wool cap has ear lappers. No it doesn't match my coat.
I wear my belt three holes larger than when new because leather shrinks as it dries. (Made two of those holes myself)
The woods are amazingly quieter than they were 20 years ago.
I don't use a cane, it's a "walking stick," so at age 75 I'm not old and don't you dare call me that. I do, however, have many a memory.

Jim

So that's why!!?! I always thought wool did that too because my Woolrich coat and pants have shrunk some in the past 40 years.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Classy rifle there Jim, you post a picture on the Winchester 64 thread?

You're an old hunter if......your hunting buddies go sit by the gutpile because it smells better than you do......

Hey, I resemble that remark...lol

Cheapest I remember was 49 cents in the 'fifties.

if after the first couple times you get up to pee you start checking your watch because one of those times you are just going to stay up and get started.

if your hunting gear includes some combination of cholesterol meds, heart meds, pain killers, glasses, bi-focals, reading glasses.

if your landmarks are something like "up past where X, killed Y, back in 19XX"

if you recall when the plastic shot shell hulls were all the rage because they were waterproof.

BTW - I'm still using that 4x fixed-power scope too.

VernAk, I would love to get close enough to a wolf to smell it even if it stinks! Why are they harder to skin? I saw a tube skinned pelt in Salmon Id. and it didn't look different than a well done coyote. It would be a lot heavier and I would probably skin it on the ground if alone. I almost said do it on the ground but that could cause some interesting responses w/ this crowd.

mike r

You are an old hunter if you keep a "Butt Out" tool handy in the bathroom.

And, if you can't remember chitt. I may have been paying 35 cents for a box of shorts. I couldn't afford the high dollar stuff.

Wasnt it 3 cents for a pop bottle, 7 cents for a good Winchester high brass paper 12 ga shell? Maybe old man Maxey gave us kids a break.

He got our business because he was the first store we got to on our walk to town.

Growing up in the 50's we paid 25 cents for a box of shorts and 35 for longs. Never had the 50 cents for long rifle.

We bought our ammunition from Ace Auto, but every gas station had 22 ammo and some small mom and pop grocery stores did too.

My father had an Ithaca sxs, but all the rest of us had single shots. 22's or those H&R Topper shotguns.

Yea, that's what it was. We used shorts unless we were going to the river bottom where there were deer, in which case we got the high powered longs.

I remember being a kid in PA in the 1970s and seeing trucks
with rifles in the racks sitting outside taverns and bars when it was deer season.

If you know what Maximum Point-Blank Range means.

Maaaaan, you boys are givin me a senior moment.


With regard to fixed power scopes, I was born old.

That oldtrapper is grovie thank you!

Scott, it ain't the years, it's the miles...


Winter time is the worst, damn that can make a guy feel 'old' and achy.

And I better shut up and stop whining now, only 36, really be crying in another 36 years....grin




And for Kawi.

I would say you are an old hunter when you pass on the big buck in the bottom of the coulee and shoot the forkhorn up by the road.