You young pups can be amusing. If you consider 25 to 50 miles of pre-hunt (pre-season) walking, much of it quite tilted, glassing the country for elk, finding a herd, then 10 or so miles following them to choose your buck and find out where they feed and bed "a few miles" more power to you. I am getting too old for that.

...and we have not yet loosed one shaft.
-carl
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Survivor- Old School Swamp Rat (2003)

You are not out of options until you quit.