Great post! And this is truely what we (I) live for... Commrodery!
Sounds like my group of 3 brothers, a younger friend and a deceased friend (@ age 42) and myself.
I am probably more like your friend, a tenacious little bull dog, Jestor of our group.
Heck, I've run around our camp fire pit in my underwear during a snow storms a few times, even wrestled!!!
Just don't have the big bucks quite figured, but I'm right on it!
May many more years of great hunting shower down upon you Mr. H