I feel ashamed to read the reports here. Rugged men reduced to hunting squirrels and deer out their back window, because of age and health challenges. Admission: Since my thirties I’ve been shooting deer out of several upstairs windows on private ground surrounded by real public wilderness. Hot coffee, warm food, my son or friends at other windows, warm conditions when it’s usually very cold outside, we just call it “the most comfortable deer stand you’re going to hunt in.” A 100 yard drag straight downhill to the shed beats a mile and a half pack out of boned deer meat through rugged country and a serious downhill that ages the knees by the minute. In my thirties and forties I relished those wilderness deer. Nothing like the experience of hunting in big country. Now I really enjoy walking to the barn, firing up the ATV, and driving up to the dead deer and then dragging it right to the meat pole. Using the ATV winch to pull up the deer is so much easier than hauling against it by hand with the older back. So don’t feel judged here, men. We are all in this together.
