bottletopbill
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never to oldStalking and Age
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never to oldFortunately for all of us, Deerstalking in the UK is about as soft as hunting gets anywhere in the world. It’s something we could all be doing well into our 80’s+ if our health is good enough.
The deer are small. The terrain is easy. You’re never far from a road. Mobile phone service is generally excellent. Emergency services are excellent if you ever need them.
No reason to give up stalking if you’re still able. Every deer stalker can help, no matter what age you are.
The deer are small. The terrain is easy. You’re never far from a road. Mobile phone service is generally excellent. Emergency services are excellent if you ever need them.
No reason to give up stalking if you’re still able. Every deer stalker can help, no matter what age you are.
Sol
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I get paid £8.60 an hour at the moment, Its enough for me to partake In hobbies but I'm also Incredibly fortunate and my parents ask nothing off me for towards the house and so forth.
Its enough I can book a stalk now and again but I couldn't imagine someone with rent, food costs, essential living costs etc trying to buy into deer stalking £250 for a day out isnt 'cheap' for under 21's that are being paid min-wage.
Foxyboy43
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Thank you sir.
Staff Nurse in the ICU told me to never let fear of dying get in the way of living - a month later at the coronary (survivors) rehab class this wonderful lady was there - as a patient!
I am happy just to be vertical, and able to do stuff. I try to do what has to be done, but at my own pace. I marathon, not sprint. When banging in fence posts round the penn I try to be "spirit level man", or "fetch another post" man, not the main "post rammer" man. If I have to I will, but I can do some today and some tomorrow.
This year my main project was to let the daylight in to create an understory in the woods, by coppicing the hazel stocks and removing the elder, etc. I find chainsawing harder now, so I did it at the rate of two tanks of fuel in the saw a day. I have time, and time spent doing stuff I like is good time.
This year my main project was to let the daylight in to create an understory in the woods, by coppicing the hazel stocks and removing the elder, etc. I find chainsawing harder now, so I did it at the rate of two tanks of fuel in the saw a day. I have time, and time spent doing stuff I like is good time.
Dunwaters
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If you really think that age is just a number you are very very unobservant.
Best of luck with your shooting and long may you continue but I’ve long since had to stop listening to my body, dodgy hips knees and back. Right shoulder insensitive and damaged, right cheek in the same sorry state, months of rehab and physio behind me and more on the horizon.
I can’t Spey cast or wade anymore.
If I listened to that nonsense or the damn doctors I wouldn’t even get up in the morning.
2 Solpadeine with breakfast, 2 more for lunch a large whiskey at dinner time with another to settle my stomach and nerves will get me through most days.
Not so long ago I could go all day on just the one tablet and a small one.
Age just a number my ass.
Not now. Maybe it was once, but definitely not now.
Stalker62
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Life is a terminal condition, and no one gets out alive.
It is important to live before you die - not everyone manages to do so...
Didn’t work in construction industry by chance, did you?
Stalker62
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Funny thing.
I long ago imposed that very limit on my chainsaw days. Two tanks and done.
It is more physical than you think, and errors with a chainsaw are seldom trivial.
Err, you know what . That might well be true in most places in the uk but certainly not others when we talk the whole of the UK . Mature fallow bucks , Sika and reds especially are not moose by any means but they are big enough . We have no reliable phone reception directly around us and we are only 8-10 miles out of Clitheroe , injured one time on a Scottish Hill after getting down it was maybe 1 1/2 hours drive to hospital.
Good effort and what fantastic uplift in chances in life you will have made for those children - good man, not sure I could do the same.BEEN doing school runs for over forty five years now and the kids keep me going grand daughter lives with us age 10 yrs with AUTISUM and a 6ft 14yr old with AUTISUM who we fostered from birth . Then local Authority wanted to place her in a home when she reached two years old. So we took them to crown court to adopt her plus our own four kids and over 46 foster children
Christ i should feel like a teenager if they keep you young.
John Gryphon
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skywull
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grumpy old stalker in south lanarkshire hitting 70 looking for younger person with own off road vehicle to help with sika culls and fox control and other vermin control must be able to make it at least one or two days a week day and night or dont bother ..down side... you will have to be fit and able to drag deer up and down hill , sit for hours waiting on deer and fox , be out in all weathers no need for any qualifications but be willing to go for level one when the time comes" and have a good idea on safety with firearms, up side " you get to see some amazing sights and sounds get to be out in great weather { sometimes } and get to stalk sika and roe deer for free .... no real experience needed but helpful pm for more details and fone number there is a lot more to it than i have said ....thank you
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you get to see and hear some amazing sights and sounds, stalk amazing sika and roe, all this for free
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you get to see and hear some amazing sights and sounds, stalk amazing sika and roe, all this for free
I agree - and that's a challenge that's going to be more difficult to face.
sikamalc
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In the southern part of the Uk, I would agree that most stalking is in an easy environment. Although dragging Fallow bucks off a 60 acre field covered in mud is always good for a laugh.
However the highlands of Scotland can be a real challenge at times with extraction. I will admit that its not quite up to hunting Ibex in the Himalayas or extracting a Thar in New Zealand, but it has its challenges. Looking at hill stalkers who have a cull to complete, its a hard job, and many have health issues with joints giving up in their bodies.
I have not been a full time Hill stalker. But have stalked on a regular basis in the highlands (up past Inverness) for many a year. Just over a year ago I had to have a much needed full left knee replacement, and they also re aligned my patella. Some of the worse pain I have endured. But its all gone well and I have full mobility back and last year managed to stalk again in the highlands, only just with friends. Back again this year with clients.
Age creeps up on us all, if your lucky. Some never achieve it. Make the most of each day, and make memories, which is all part of stalking in my opinion. At days end memories are the only thing you can take with you.
I do not take many deer each year, but I enjoy this slow apprenticeship on the peripheries. Many more blanks than successes but I keep the freezer full. You do not have to be shooting 500 bird days to be a game shot, likewise you not do you have to be taking 100+ carcasses a year to the game dealer to be a stalker. I have had to forge my own path since I started shooting aged eleven. Twenty seven years later I am still as much in love with the sport and lifestyle as I have ever been. As I get older I will no doubt get more opportunities for stalking and as I go, passing on my fieldcraft and contacts to my boys.
Amen
Wrong side of State Pension age and deeply not regretting getting into stalking until I was in my 50s. Two bouts of unrelated cancer made me realise just how lucky I was to be alive and able to be out in some stunning countryside with a rifle doing what I most enjoy. Partially retired so I can easily fund what can be an expensive hobby at times. I too don’t want to have a lingering end and hope when my time comes it will be quick and whilst I’m doing something I enjoy
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