Be glad your aches and pains come from doing something you love. The worst curse is to live in pain....endure pain....and you want nothing to do with what is causing it.

Some have that life daily.

Enjoyed your post.....reminds me of a 115 buck I shot about 5 years ago....could have swore he was 145+ on the hoof in Ohio. I still grin at that rack each year.....that buck took me down to "human level"....I needed that. We all need hunts, bucks and moments that bring us back to what "the hunt" is really about.......

........simply to enjoy the hunt the way each of us wants.

Congrats on another year of great memories Joe.....thanks for sharing.