Well burntmuch, I'm a few years past 40 (quite a few). My days of trekking two or threemiles into the Honey Island Swamp are over, though I've done my share of that and have spent half a day dragging a deer out enough times to not want to do that again.

All of my hunting now is in the dry piney woodswhere a steep hill will rise darn near 30 feet over the distance of a quarter mile. I can still carry a backpack too - from my back door to the truck about does it. I've never been on snowshoes. Do they run on gas or electricity? My hunting camp is a permanent 8x8' "plywood tent". It's very primitive because, though it has electricity, the only running wateris from a 55 gallon drum that I have to fill at least twice during the season. No bathroom either, you have to poop in the woods. The bed is a single mattress and box spring and, though it's not lumpy or anything, you can't stretch out like ona king size one. Television reception is lousy too. I can only get three stations consistently - the other four are pretty much hit and miss depending on the weather. Still, I'm able to tough it out at camp every Friday through Sundayfrom October through January. Hunting from this camp can be pretty tough also. I have to walk a full 500 yards to one stand andalmost 600 to another. My best stand is on the North end of the lease, soI just take the truck to that one and only have a 200 yard walk.

I sure enjoy the stories and pictures of back country hunts and like to dream about them. I just don't want to do them. A man's got to know his limitations.