Recent content by Dapper

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    Still working

    70 years old, retired when I was 65.5. Have exercised lightly since my 50's. Currently exercise between 3-3.5 hours a day. Seldom miss a day unless traveling or actively hunting. Still able to head west and hunt the mountains. Just took the largest whitetail of my life, a mile and quarter...
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    Keeping an old bow?

    On an elk hunt far from home I drew my newer bow back, just to pull it back and the lower limb broke. The next afternoon I shot a big bull with a backup bow that was 25 years old. I later got a newer, shorter bow and used it for a number of years. As I've aged, now 70 , the longer bow (the...
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    What'd you forget?

    I forgot my arrows. Luckily it was just for an evening hunt. My bow broke the evening before. That bow was always in its case with the quiver on. My backup bow wouldn't fit in its case with the quiver on. So I grabbed the backup bow, hiked in over a mile to watch a water source. Once I got...
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    Packers for hire in the Soda Springs, Idaho area?

    Thanks fellows for your help. Everybody have a safe and enjoyable hunt!
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    Packers for hire in the Soda Springs, Idaho area?

    Its 66A and 76
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    Packers for hire in the Soda Springs, Idaho area?

    My son and I will be bowhunting in the area in a few weeks. Even though I exercise three hours a day, not over weight and mentally think I'm as ready to go as I can be for a 67 year old, I have a health issue that my cardiologist thinks needs attention soon. A bad valve in my heart. I've...
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    Team Hunting Elk

    2 My son is my partner
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    How often to shoot broadheads

    I shoot them on a fairly regular basis at 33 yards and under. Years ago in my backyard I made a dirt bunker that I can shoot either field points or broadheads in my yard. The dirt was all sifted to remove any rocks/pebbles. Only shoot a couple times a year at longer distances, since I have...
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    Do you travel with a backup bow?

    Yes, always. My son is left handed/I'm right handed, so each has his own backup bow. My backup bow is set up with its own sight, just move the quiver. We have always driven, never flown. In 2014 I had a good New Mexico elk tag. On the third evening, while waiting for some elk to come...
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    How are your preparations coming along? You ready?!

    I'm pretty much ready to go. As much as an old person can be. I shoot daily in the back yard, exercise about three hours a day (5 miles on rowing machine, 120 flights of stairs on stair climber, walk the dogs 2 miles daily currently with 65 lbs in daypack and ride bike at least 5 miles)...
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    Gout, help me out

    When mine starts coming on, it felt like the base of my big toe was sore or had been jammed. Of course the first time I didn't know what the heck was going on. After finding out is was gout that initial time, When I feel it coming on the follwing times, I jumped on the apple cider vinegar...
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    Gout, help me out

    Hello, I've had gout a number of times. Apple Cider Vinegar (with the mother) mixed with water seems to do the trick for me. A tablespoon or so mixed with water, a few times a day when I feel it coming on. I got some gout meds from the doctor that were expensive and did pretty much nothing...
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    At home education

    One of the early computer games was called "Lemonade Stand". Where you would buy supplies according to a long range weather forecast, set your prices and the computer would play out the results. You would reorder supplies, adjust prices, etc. Kind of a business learning game. I wanted to...
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    The cost of not going Elk hunting this year?

    I love to bowhunt, its what I live for. Was a time early in my life when the boys were young where I couldn't really afford to make any western trips. Now everything is paid for, the boys are through college, I'm retired and can afford to hunt out west every year until my old body breaks...
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    Overnights

    I've always thought it would be neat to stay overnight in a tree stand during the rut to hear whitetails moving about. What would concern me the most is dozing off and some big old owl thinking I was a lunch item.
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