AFP,
I have also noticed as I get older (50) that I don't enjoy hunting as much. I'm thinking that it is more of a less desire to kill stuff, although I still love to launch a sage rat or jackrabbit, but don't have the urge shoot every one in the country like I did when I was younger. Nowdays I get a lot of satisfaction out of tinkering with a rifle and getting it to shoot good groups on paper. And just when I think I have every rifle I could possibly need, they come out with something new, like the .17 rimfire!
Virgil B.