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I have always taken advantage of rest when I can, ammo was expensive, Pop and Grand Pop expected critters for empty cases.

Lots of shot gunning as a youngster, rabbit and quail, and when I first started deer hunting it was with a shotgun by law. Walked my first fork horn up and put a slug in the back of his neck on the first jump out of the bed. I was 16, could see really well and was in top shape. Browning A5, skeet barrel.

68 now, eyes are rheumy and I still walk a lot but the physical plant is not what it was. Both my elk were taken sitting with a carried set of sticks I also used to help walk in the hills, across a valley, the cow about level with me, the bull up hill. The cow was walking slow, about to go over a saddle, the bull standing still. Glad I had the sticks pulled into my stance to help steady me. I cheated and ranged them too. I shot every weekend I could all summer before each trip, used the set up I carried at our range, out to 500 yards so I would know how the stuff worked. Not off a bench, on my rear end doing my best to keep the wobble out.

Teaching my grandson to do the same. Our goal is one shot, one kill.

Bad worriedman.