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Almost to the point calling myself an ex drag racer as I haven't gone in about 3 years as I do not seem to have the time as my interests have been heavily moving toward reloading and hunting, hence my enrollment here looking for some H1000 to find a load that is not temperature sensitive as I had a shot drop way too much with IMR4350 in a 300 win mag in extreme cold. I'll be retiring in less than 3 years and plan to hunt even more than I do now and take off about 4 weeks a year as it is. I've got 4 daughters that own their own homes and are fantastic, a wife that has stuck with me going on 40 years and I see her as quite beautiful even now and I have 6 grandkids. I started hunting at 48, almost 60 now, as my cousin talked me into buying a shotgun to go duck hunting and it has kind of exploded from there so that sometimes I think I only work to take time off to go hunting, elk, deer, duck, geese, pheasant, rock chucks, prairie dogs, badgers in Idaho, and ground squirrels in Idaho and Montana. I also have a dislike for possum that end up in my woodshed and have trapped and disposed of 35 of them. One of my sons-in-law is a national handgun champion and I hunt probably more with him than anyone else but I'm a better shot with a rifle and better than average and my oldest daughter is the best shot of all of us with a rifle, especially with my .17hmr, but does not shoot much, and one season the son-in-law and myself shot 667 confirmed ground squirrels in 2.5 days with .22's and a .17hmr. Only one daughter not married and she a a nurse and an officer in the Air Force. Another is a nurse also at a surgery center, another Air National Guard and dental assistant with an A-10 squadron and she went to Iraq 3 times, and one is a stay at home mom with 3 rambunctious kids and a husband that just started his own electrical company and is doing quite well. I've been blessed by God and a Conservative and looking to hopefully move out of the socialist state of Washington to land of the free in Montana. I'm a very active writer to congressmen during the sessions here in Washington and probably on some sort of watch list as I tell them what I think of their gun grabbing, freedom robbing socialist ideas.
 
I have a simple plan......

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Aloha, Mark
 
If I may ...
I am 72 and still working. Retired x3 before and keep going back to work in my career field. A big part for me has been my need to be around people. In retirement I found I missed regular human interchanges. Everyone is different so if you can [afford] to retire best wishes to ya. Don't be surprised however if you find you actually miss your work. I had an old Boss tell me years ago -- "I've quit many good jobs when all I really needed was some quality vacation time". Best wishes with your decision. Me? Long as my health holds out I'm off to work.
 
I appreciate your information. I'll be around plenty of people as my wife and I are still fairly healthy and we have the kids and grandkids, but we hurt all the time from old age and both have arthritis but if I do not work it does not hurt nearly as much, and I walk stilts quite a bit now and my feet hurt real bad after about 3 days that it hurts to walk for a while till I'm off them for a small spell, so just for the pain I'm ready to retire now but need to wait till 62 for the early social security to pay for health insurance and have a little extra on top of retirement things we have done already. I used to be a superintendent for 17 years so was in the office and I'm so done running a crew I will not go back to that though my guys were great, I'm just not an office guy. I've been waiting a long time just to clean my garage as it looks like a hoarder lives there with all the tools and bird decoys I have along with the race car and have resigned that, that will not happen till I retire. I'm planning on hunting a lot more when I retire, maybe 2 months out of the year instead of 1. Could be I'll want to work, but at this point I doubt it. I may even start drag racing again.
 
I've been retired for a year on June 1st. So far, it does not suck. Nothing against working, it was just time to get out of my profession. We moved to Idaho and are living comfortably on my pension. I finally upgraded to a used Indian Chieftain and am already wearing the tires off it. I'm really looking forward to fall and unrestricted by work hunting. Yeah, my body is wearing down, but I'm working around the issues. With the way inflation is eating up my retirement, maybe I'll eventually get a job as a WalMart greeter or something else high-stress. Just kidding. There are an amazing number of gun stores here. It'd be nice to maybe have an employee discount...
 
I retired almost 7 years a go and started an ammo business to have my competitive shooting hobby to pay for itself. It's done that and way more. Even without the business I've got way more stuff do do now than I could to do in the rest of my life. I've got no time or need to go back to work for someone else.

Edited to add: Welcome and also my son runs a big block fox body Mustang that runs mid 8's in the 1/4 mile.
 
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July 1st marks 15 years retired, and I'm as busy as I want/can be. The difference is, my time is spent doing the things I like to do and the things I put off for many years. While my gross income went down in retirement, so did many expenses associated with working. No debt and plenty of savings made a big difference as well. As age and health issues [heart and arthritis] slowed me down, I just slowed the pace of life but kept doing the things I love. Every Wednesday I meet with some other retired friends to do maintenance at our church. We also go shooting together, and take the grandkids with us. I can get a lot of 2 minute commercials in [on the meaning of life, values, character and personal responsibility] while doing 'grown up' stuff with the grandkids. While my working life was satisfactory overall, my most important legacy is the investment I've made in my children, grandchildren and close friends.
 
Welcome Aboard. Glad you found the forum.

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Check out the organized clean ups. It's the best way to meet the community and learn where and how to use public lands responsibly.

We are doing non ODFW supported cleanups at public forests - check the North Fork Wolf Creek Road thread in resources.

If you really want to get involved in community action check out Trash No Land.

 
Until I'm retired I need as much time as I can muster just for my own stuff. After retirement and finally having time to just clean my garage I'll probably jump on that bandwagon of community clean up of the forests and doing more scouting for hunting locations.
 
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