Australian Hunter

Aged hunters prosper with positive attitude

Someone who is not quite up to scaling the higher peaks will opt to find a good, well-marked game trail and pick a spot to stake it out.

Growing old has many benefits: you aren’t expected to be excessively athletic, you don’t worry too much if things tend to sag a bit here and there, and if you’ve done it right from the start, you have some good yarns up your sleeve. But there are those who tend to draw lines in the sand and say things like: “Oh, I’m too old for that.” I guess this leads to the questions: How long can a hunter keep doing what they love and is there a limit?

The fact is everyone has their own perspective on life. The nightly news is full of stories about oldies who have done tandem skydives and who have gone on long treks, including places like the Himalayas. Certainly genes have a lot of say in the

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