I noticed South Korea was looking at its military training for newbies and made a change. It increased the basic training from five to eight weeks and increased training in a week, from five days to six. That nearly doubled the time to train the newly inducted civilians.

I instantly thought of hunting. In our case, we have many different types of hunters. Many getting older and not in the physical shape of a twenty year old paratrooper. Yet all get on a web site and consider themselves a hunter or sportsman, regardless of their physical training methods.

In the off season, I always considered walking and hiking part of the hunting process. It was not only good for my health; it was good for my hunting. When I decided to cart a tree stand into the hunting woods, I made sure I increased the walking. Near forty, I didn't jump happily in the air, saying how happy I was going to be, carrying a tree stand. And if I didn't keep in shape, leaving one tree stand behind could mean, running into tree stand rustlers.

You don't just make the jump from "civilian" in one easy move. And you don't automatically get your hunters badge, and are fit to hike into the outdoors. My thoughts. Whatever it's worth.