re: Anyone get tired of the drinking?????

Yeah if I'm waking up before 4, I'm not drinking anything. Nothing like a day 25+ feet up in the woods where I feel just fine. Having to shite in the woods though, rather not.

I don’t drink, and never have. Never seemed like the risk was worth the reward to me.

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Gout convinced me to back way off.

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Same here. I backed all the way off.

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But after say age 50 why drink yourself into drunken oblivion ? Is it that fun?

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My retired and widowed neighbor drinks Busch Light all day every day. He’s 73. Nicest guy you’ll ever meet and healthy as an ox. Maybe it replaces your blood after a certain age?

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My retired and widowed neighbor drinks Busch Light

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I'm retired and 47 and I used to do drink Busch Light daily. Now it's maybe twice a week unless I have the 5th wheel at the lake.

I had to tone it down because I realized that I was pretty drunk by the time mt wife got home from work every day.

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a buddy and I killed 60 plus beers in an afternoon and night. We typically lay low the next night if we drink that many.

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Ya think? Damn.

Over 55. I don’t like how a hangover makes me feel the next day and manage my consumption accordingly.

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I truly have no idea how some of these people function after drinking that much. Either they’re lying or they have super powers to recover from such abuse to do it over and over again.

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I drank daily for close to 10 years. Would get a good buzz during the week and pretty drunk on the weekends. I was so used to always feeling kind of shitty that I thought I was feeling pretty good. When I cut back to once or twice a week I had a different baseline of what feeling good actually is.

I'm a recovering alcoholic. Drinking heavily was an everyday thing for me & it was much worse at the camp. I'm truly ashamed to say that I drank a 5th of whiskey and then climbed up in a deer stand more times than I can count. Luckily I never killed my self or hurt anyone else in the process. It's a tough thing to look yourself in the mirror and admit that you have a problem but it's way harder to do something about it. All of my friends drink as does most of my family, especially at the camp. But I had to make the decision to quit & I haven't had a drop since June 26th, 2021. 521 days & counting. One of the best decisions that I ever made.

For the record, I am not bothered by others drinking around me. I quit for me, not them. I had the problem & I fixed it. 1 day @ a time...

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Drinking cold beer on arrival Eat dinner Drink more Lights out at 9:30pm Wake up, hunt Breakfast One cocktail Nap Afternoon hunt with beers Cook eat Get hammered all night Hardcores can try to hunt Sunday morning

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While I would add one or two more “drinks” in that list….this should effectively end the thread.