2rocky
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Maybe it is middle age, but growing up I always dreamed of hunting the Rocky Mountain West like I heard the old timers talking about. Stories of 30 inch bucks on OTC tags in the Four corners area, Black maned bugling bulls in the Selway ans wall tent camps deep in the wilderness.
When I reached my early 30's I was finally able to go out of state and chase some of those critters and even had some success. Now after roughly 15 years and drawing a few good tags, just being out there with the unwashed masses in a general unit doesn't hold the appeal it did when I was young and hungered for new horizons and "exotic" big game. I've had a taste of the "good life" and eclipsed my youthful expectations of wild country and critters.
For those of you in your 50's...Did you have a time period where other aspects of your life took your focus away from hunting for a time period? Did you find you WANTED to be as focused and relentless in your next big adventure but feel like you had your best days already?
How do you reconcile being in No Man's land on points for hunts you might finally draw when you could be considered elderly?
Ironically, My father in his early 60's began his out of state hunting for deer elk and antelope. I could count on him as my hunting partner. Now he is slowing down at 75. Maybe that is the part that is making me a little melancholy...
When I reached my early 30's I was finally able to go out of state and chase some of those critters and even had some success. Now after roughly 15 years and drawing a few good tags, just being out there with the unwashed masses in a general unit doesn't hold the appeal it did when I was young and hungered for new horizons and "exotic" big game. I've had a taste of the "good life" and eclipsed my youthful expectations of wild country and critters.
For those of you in your 50's...Did you have a time period where other aspects of your life took your focus away from hunting for a time period? Did you find you WANTED to be as focused and relentless in your next big adventure but feel like you had your best days already?
How do you reconcile being in No Man's land on points for hunts you might finally draw when you could be considered elderly?
Ironically, My father in his early 60's began his out of state hunting for deer elk and antelope. I could count on him as my hunting partner. Now he is slowing down at 75. Maybe that is the part that is making me a little melancholy...