Being retired now, I've learned to pace myself. Tearing my ACL on a side hill with too heavy a pack and too far from the truck was a wake up call. I've exhausted myself trying to get a whole deer out of the woods by nightfall. Now I carry a double and a triple small pulley set in my pack with rope to get an animal up high in a tree and cut an animal up into five pieces and pack it out over days instead of hours. Just do half as much, but take twice as long. Slowing down actually makes you a better hunter. Probably since the wife won't eat venison anyway, it makes me way more selective than I use to be and my taxidermy bills have increased because of it.
