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59-2/3

My favorite view in the whole wide world is looking down early in the morning and seeing Dober below me.

Oh yeah, I forgot to post...56 here

42 here.

You sir are a inspiration! Ive had 3 surgeries, and it hasnt stopped me yet. But Id be lying if I said I still get up the mountain like when I was 25...

I do feel sorry for you guys and your knee problems.I have been knocked plum silly so many times working and everything on me still works except some heart problems.

I think the knee thing was the most painful by far.I dislocated mine from a big pine that wouldn't do what it was supposed to and I wasn't quick enough, but it all worked out.

We should all be grateful we can get out and do things in the hills...

Jayco

Amen!

23 here.

54 here and still wrestling with a knee I screwed up elk hunting back in my 20's. Dumb enough I guess to think it will heal up or just plain go away. Worst pain for me was riding horses down off the west side of the divide into the the middle Fork of the Flathead. Why is uphill so much easier?

42 just like Wader. I heard 42 years old is the cool age to be hunting elk this year.

Well...since everyone has been sharing....I'm 29.

Then again, I aint Mark R Dobrenski!

51.25 or so.

I've only killed 9 elk so far but I'm hoping to increase that this weekend. Late muzzleloader season is open.

I'm 60...last elk hunt was 2-3 years ago.Last hunt out west was October....mule deer.

60 in January

Getting close to 58, way too much pie and ice cream

55 next month. With trashed knees, back, hip, and now the left shoulder is really starting to do bad things. I don't think I could have handled the last elk w/o the help of my son! He was a real lifesaver.

Kaywoodie

41

I'm 56 killed an elk every year since I was 20.

54. I wish I could have started before I was 40.

I met up with my son-in law and his friend (age 26 and 30)on a remote ridge at 11K this last season. It made me feel good when he commented, "I don't know how you old guys do this!"

58..but I quit hunting elk 10 years ago after a string of 23 in a row...thats enough elk "fun" for me!

My best friend is the same age as I (61) has had a total knee replacement and went on a rough country elk/md hunt in Utah in Oct. Took a beautiful, heavy-horned 5x5 bull the last day after climbing a mountain where you had to pull yourself up on brush and rocks--shot the bull on top at ~11k. The 30-something guide commented he knew guys in their 40s and 30s that would have said , "no thanks". He works hard and walked over 1000 mi in preparation for that hunt. The bull was nice but my friend commented to me that his trophy was getting to the top of that Hill.

We're talking about another md hunt next fall but "not so rough he said"