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If you seek a strait power rifle scope.grin
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Except in the case of my back-up gun when guiding clients (1x4 Leupold). Otherwise, I'm strictly a 4x rifle scope guy. So, count me as "old".
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I have been caught at times and asked,How old a truck is that? Why 1984 you would know that if she still had the grill.
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If you seek a strait power rifle scope.grin But you are even older if while hunting: -You have to get-up at night every two hours to pee -Bring a can of Metamucil with you to the campsite Just kidding with you.
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Kawi, are that your.?.
Your Ben goin skool?
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One can remember when hardware stores would break a box of ammo. Used to go in and get maybe 27 cents worth of 22 LR's.
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Spell check though I fight it. Got myself a new wuzzel you see just right there.crap
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-Bring a can of Metamucil with you to the campsite
Just drink a tall glass or two of hot water first thing in the am - no need to bring Metamucil. FC
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If you pick your hunts by your ability to pack out the game. If you recruit fellow hunters based on their ability to pack out your game. If soloing I now restrict myself to varmints and wolves. I love to solo hunt but if I finally get a wolf it will get skinned prior to pack out. If you are shopping for a trailer after deciding no more backpack elk hunts you may be aging gracefully.
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One can remember when hardware stores would break a box of ammo. Used to go in and get maybe 27 cents worth of 22 LR's. Ha. If you used to buy a whole box box of 22 LR for 27 cents.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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if you have original boxes of 30-30 silver tips and Remington bronze points.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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One can remember when hardware stores would break a box of ammo. Used to go in and get maybe 27 cents worth of 22 LR's. I remember when 22 LR were .25 cents for a box. yes I am old.
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I remember when 22 LR were .25 cents for a box.
Was that when gas was 25 cents a gallon?
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kawi: What is a wuzzle? You are an old hunter if you can remember going backpacking before commercial backpack tents were invented. You are an old hunter if you have to use a scope because your eyes can no longer focus on hard sights. You are an old hunter if you have forgotten when it was easy to pack out game. You are an old hunter when you can see more animals on the walls of your game room than you did the last time you went hunting. You are an old hunter when your hunting partners complain that the cook is getting cranky, and you are the cook. KC
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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In mid-Michigan you were excused from school on the opening day of pheasant season by showing your license. Now there are so few pheasants here it's a treat just to see one. I used to sell ammo from open boxes at the hardware store where I worked. We had a sign on the wall over the ammo rack listing price per shell. Fellas would come in and say "Gimmee three 12 gauge high brass number 6's and three number 4's." Same with rifle ammo come deer season. Some guys would bring their rifles in to get cartridges that fit. One old guy accidentally touched off a .30-06 round into the ammo rack. Blew apart a box of shotgun shells and put a hole through the block wall and into the next building over.
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When you still have a couple cans of Cordite left.
Gun Shows are almost as comical as boat ramps in the Spring.
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If you pick your hunts by your ability to pack out the game. If you recruit fellow hunters based on their ability to pack out your game. If soloing I now restrict myself to varmints and wolves. I love to solo hunt but if I finally get a wolf it will get skinned prior to pack out. If you are shopping for a trailer after deciding no more backpack elk hunts you may be aging gracefully.
mike r Several years ago I bought several pack llamas for exactly that reason. I figure they added a good 5 years to my elk hunting time.
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You started hunting with a SXS double Parker and a .30-30 lever action!!
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I only hunt with a fixed power scope because these damned cataracts make it difficult to use a peep sight.
And, lvmiker if you are going to shoot a wolf, you may want a young helper as they are miserable to skin. And they can stink!
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You put on yer camo(plaid shirt), sneaking boots(black converse hi-tops) cover scent(chain-saw mix fuel cause elk and blacktails are always around clearcuts)
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