Older hunter needs help

I am an older hunter with over 60 years of hunting out of state, many times making 2 trips a year hunting mule and whitetail deer, but prefer mule deer. I have reached a point in my life where I have to be realistic, due to my physical condition I cannot walk any distance any more. On my recent trip to Idaho, while driving home I thought to myself, this is no fun any more, I'm getting too old for this, maybe I should give it up. Then I slapped myself in the head and asked myself, do you really want to quit? The answer was absolutely not, I'm not going to quit, after all, I'm only 80. I hunt a large private ranch here in California for blacktail. I have a newer Honda Pioneer side by side that I hunt out of, we call it road hunting. I thought about it and decided to post on this forum to see if that was a possibility. I have all the equipment such as spotting scope, binoculars, range finder, weapons, Honda side by side, etc. There is a good chance there might be 2 of us. We are not picky about food or accomodations, and would even consider staying in a motel and eating in local restaurants. Would not want to live in a tent and would want to hunt 5-7days. Now the important part: I am and always have been a trophy hunter and have killed many trophies, of which 5 are over 30", and 2 whitetail over 150. In mule deer I would consider a trophy to be a heavy horned, 26 rack that would b&c score at 170 . In whitetail it would have to be 150 heavy horned animal. We are not interested in killing a small buck just for the meat, if we didn't see one that was to our liking, well, it wouldn't be the first time we came home empty handed, but we want an area that produces quality bucks. Whoever we hook up with will have to gut and retrieve, and skin the animal. The second hunter would be younger and physically fit. Interested in North or South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, etc. If anyone out there is interested in talking about this you can email me at [email protected], or call at 408-722-0125
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I would love to help but am confused what you are asking? Are you asking that a younger guy come be kind of a pack mule? Or are you asking for a place to hunt with a younger man? Are you asking to hunt with a younger guy to help with the labor of the aftermath of killing? Seriously just asking to see if I can in fact help.

Awesome you are still hunting I hope I am as well if I reach 80.

Happy Hunting!

If you were an Olympic athlete you'd have a hard time finding a public land hunt in OR to satisfy you. and that would be an olympian with a bunch of preference points going into the draw at that.

Unless you're interested in an outfitter with private leases forget Oregon. don't let some of the people here blow smoke and tell you about all the great bucks they kill in OR all the time on public land. they're full of crap.


I would be looking at Colorado if I were you, but you're going to need points there too or buy a landowner tag. this is a problem you're going to find in most all states.













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