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« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2012, 10:51:23 pm » |
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27, 3 kids, work? Depends on if something breaks. If not, 40-50 hrs a week. Try to hunt once a week with a break every couple weeks to participate in my domestic obligations. Hunt with some good people with lots of places and we have added our to theirs. Got enough places to stay gone but family is priority until family is old enough to hunt.   |
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« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2012, 10:57:42 pm » |
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32 and still at it but I'm at a point now where I'm more focused on dogs and not so much gotta catch a hog
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« Reply #22 on: April 27, 2012, 01:05:25 am » |
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25, had out first youngin 3 weeks ago, and i have 10 dogs......i hunt anytime i can, baby and the ol lady come first now.
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« Reply #23 on: April 27, 2012, 06:11:42 am » |
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I am 56 years old...as a kid I lived way out in the boonies...lots of hard word ranching and farming...my friends lived far enough away that it just made it easy to just hunt almost every day with my dogs...sometimes twice a day if I could get away with it...life was hard but the dogs made it fun... Now, I would like to hunt twice a week but once a week is ok...every now and then I go every other week but when you have the right hunting dogs it really doesn't matter...they still find and catch hogs....of course feeding any good dog tracks just makes them that much better... Also retired from a chemical company and went back to work in Safety/Permit writing after laying off a few years...I wanted to know how it felt like to not work for a while...didn't like it...  but if I won the big lotto... I would be huntin every day but mostly with dogs...fooling with dogs would be my full time job... |
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« Reply #24 on: April 27, 2012, 07:30:22 am » |
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On a slightly different note, I am surprised by the physical issues many of the posters have. Not sure why. Just surprised. Most of my social groups involve runners or cyclists and most don't have health issues so I guess that seems normal. Plus, I trap alone.
I wish the best for those that have ailments. Enjoy doing what you can do. Oh, any you younger people, take care of yourself. Some of you seem to have little regard to banging up your bodies.
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« Reply #25 on: April 27, 2012, 08:01:45 am » |
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I'm 60 and work 106 hrs. per 2 week pay period. I'm very lucky to have some seriously good genes in me in that my relatives have all been healthy and lived to be well into their 90s. I would hunt at least twice a week if I had the hogs available to hunt, but that's not the case where I live. I hope to retire early next year and do much more hunting and fishing. I can still do just about anything I could when I was in my 20s....just may take a bit longer to do it. I hope to be able to travel more after i retire and maybe get to meet and hunt with some of the wonderful folks I've met on here....I look forward to it..... |
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« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2012, 09:13:23 am » |
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I'm 20 and plan on hunting until I can't but only to stop when I have passed on as much as I can to younger hunters
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Off the hood and on the run its bout to get fun
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« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2012, 11:17:52 am » |
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I am 43. Since 2008 i have had 3 back surgeries and one shoulder surgery. I have 6 screws and 2 rods in my back and 1 screw thru my tailbone into the base of my spine. usually walk with a cane due to nerve damage in leg but i started up again last October with my son and friends. Toby Keith wrote that song for me " Not as good as i once was, but good once as i ever was" lol. Starting over with young dog's because i placed all mine out and sold everything else i had ( Truck, Tracking system, Box , hog trailer) thinking i was never going to hunt again. Now i try and go a couple times a month and i am glad i can still get out and do it. Can't hunt alone anymore, can't run to a bay and can't carry a hog but i can still pull my weight in other areas. Another reason i love hog hunting and have done it for so long is because it is a team sport. from my wife to my kids and friends. It gets in your blood and you can;t get rid of it. Lee
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« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2012, 11:44:40 am » |
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Im 18 and hunt every weekend and most of the week cant get enough of it..
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« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2012, 12:40:40 pm » |
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im 23, gonna be married in less than 5 months. work 3 jobs, total almost 60 hours a week. dont hog hunt but i still hit the lake and do some squirrel and coon hunts when i can drag myself out to do it
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« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2012, 01:41:32 pm » |
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I'll be 40 in June and 5G is my dad and he still can beat me to the bay.My son is 11 and my nephew is 14 and they got the fever bad . It brings back memory's of me and my brother when we was that age and my dad was teaching us how to hunt and now he is teaching his grandkids he is the best dad and papa a kid could have and the smartest man I know.
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« Reply #31 on: April 27, 2012, 02:26:11 pm » |
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im 57 and havent hunted in almost a month as i have pnuemonia. ive been retired 2 years now and sadly my hunting has slowed down since i retired.seems since i retired i only hunt one to 3 times a month. when i was 48 i was hunting 3 nights a week. the three of us who hut together the most are 57, 57 and 58. and i hunt the least now of us . i can still walk 10 miles on flat ground but the hills kick my butt lol.
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« Reply #32 on: April 27, 2012, 05:21:42 pm » |
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I'm 57 started running dogs at 17 and 40 years is a long time but I still love it. I go when I can or when someone invites me, hint, hint hint (Tcolt) (Cwhite-25).
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« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2012, 08:37:23 am » |
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Fixin to be 97 and run 5 miles a day, hold 2 day jobs, and hunt the Louisiana Swamps every night. Just Kidding. I just turned 50. I hunted deer,duck, frogs, and Alligators all my life. I fell off a ladder a few years back and had serious setback and just quit all hunting and fishing. Had Catahoulas on and off since I was a kid. Decided to give Hog Hunting a try after my son met a few fellas and got started. Been building a pack. I mostly just enjoy working the dogs every day. I work a 7 days on 7 days off hitch so this coming winter all pups should be ready. |
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« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2012, 07:13:01 pm » |
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ive been hunting hogs since mobydick was a sardine...  |
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« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2012, 08:45:43 pm » |
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ive been hunting hogs since mobydick was a sardine... You pushin' for a TV show young Wilbanks? |
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« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2012, 09:37:48 pm » |
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I’m 56 and hunt as often as I can, living on the Colorado river helps. But as for age I have a friend that is 84 and still hunts as often as often as he possibly can. He is the ultimate hog hunter ,has some of the best dogs in Texas and kills a lot of hogs!!!! He is one of the finest gentlemen I have ever known. He hales from Scharlet Texas and I guess he will go till his last hunt. God Bless MR Jack. Hunt'um up !!!!
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« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2012, 02:52:31 pm » |
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I will be 28 in a few weeks, I hunt as often as I get a chance. I have been taking my oldest who is 9 and he is really loving everything about the hunt.
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« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2012, 04:00:16 pm » |
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Most of my surgeries were due to injuries I had from leading a rough younger life. When you are young and healthy it is easy to say what you will and will not do. All of us are fighting a losing battle with father time. Alot of the things that I thought I was over are now creeping up on me.
You can run and bicycle all you want but the human body was not designed to run 10 miles a day. It will work for a while but catch up to you in the end. A guy in my church keeled over dead jogging @ 42 and he was a picture of health. I have noticed alot of the folks at the health club that run alot always have feet and ankle problems.
When they get old that is going to catch up. That is why I swim which is low impact.
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« Reply #39 on: April 29, 2012, 04:33:40 pm » |
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51 hunt as much as I can. Was hunting up till this year 4-5 times a week for a long time but when one partner went down due to health reasons and the other one moved back home it kinda ruff around here.
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