Happy Birthday Bill. Cory...Happy Birthday too.

I agree with your sage advice. I've already far exceeded the hopes, dreams and imaginations of hunting and fishing I had when younger. If I clocked out today I'd go without regrets about the adventures I would never experience. I've done so much, yet I couldn't do it all if I lived 50 more years. For the most part I see it as my glass being almost full, but there's room for just a little more.

I've hunted and fished plenty. I intend to keep at it but these days I'm following my heart and doing the things in life that please me the most.

Archie,Those are words of wisdom.I'm thinking about trying to pull my first west trip for elk or mule deer in 2017 if it's going to happen I'm going to have to drop all other personal endeavors .

Same goes for retirement,plenty of money no health.

Good advice, I was extremely lucky to marry a girl whose mother had the exact same attitude. Every time My buddy and I would get something up and the wife objected my mother in law would say "don't be a calf and let him go while he can". My dream was BC and my Buddies was Africa and now after 52 years hunting together we've accomplished almost all the things we've wanted to do. BC in 1979 and Africa in 2001, 29 DIY elk hunts, 3 moose hunts, all 5 species of caribou,antelope,bear, Mountain Lion and 3  species of deer. After my girls were got into school my wife started bowhunting and loves it as much as I do. Each year we make DIY antelope hunts(they're much easier to handle than elk) so go when you can!