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Post by jajwrigh on Sept 27, 2007 23:19:27 GMT -5
I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but the neighbor to my property who lets me hunt her land told me that none of my family or friends are welcome to hunt anymore. This is because she has a grandson who is going to start hunting and she doesn't want anyone that doesn't know back there. She also said that some of my family came and went as they pleased and she never knew who was on the land. My plans and deer camp are now ruined, but at least I still have life long access. Anyone else hunt solo, for reasons like these?
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 27, 2007 23:32:33 GMT -5
Jon,
Sorry this went bad. Maybe its more about the grandson wanting them out more than her. I hunt solo most of the time. I really like to because I make decisions on where I'm hunting with out worry about where the other persons hunt. It seems I worry to much whether they will see deer so always give them the best spot for that hunt. Sometimes as I'm walking in I decide to do something totally different from what I had planned. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't.
To add to this I do enjoy going to deer camp in the muzzleloader season at Potaka with a bunch of guys and their sons. I think last year we had close to 14 there. h.h.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 28, 2007 4:07:48 GMT -5
I'm 50-50. I don't have a preference.
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Post by cleetus on Sept 28, 2007 5:56:13 GMT -5
My God-Parents own the 70 acres that I hunt in Chesterfield and my God-Father is VERY adamant about not letting anyone else hunt but me. I appreciate this very much and I have gotten about 3 deer a year for the last 7 or 8 years, so having the whole 70 acres to myself is nice. On the flip side of that, I wish I could take my brother-in-law or a friend or two on occasion. My uncle owns 204 acres down in Madison Indiana and I used to go down there every weekend to hunt. We would camp out, sit around a fire at night, talk about the days hunt. I really enjoyed this aspect of hunting and miss it at times (We had a falling out, long story) and wish I could do that same at my God-Parents place. I just feel very fortunate I have a place to hunt and I am allowed to manage it however I want. I just have to hunt it alone, which I can handle that.  |
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Post by hunter7x on Sept 28, 2007 9:31:13 GMT -5
I hunt on my ex father in law. He's gfoofy and will not let me bring any of my friends that I was freinds with before the divorce lol? I enjoy hunting alone so that part is no big deal, but he will once in a while let someone hunt that I don't know and last year in the middle of the year told me I wasn'ty allowed on any more because he granted someone else sole permission. The other person hunted one day and that was it. So he called and told me I could get back on. I put up with a lot from him but the land is the best I've ever been on so it's worth it.
I agree it's probably the grand son wanting to hunt it by him self and honestly he should have that right if it is his family land.
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Post by indianahick on Sept 28, 2007 11:31:53 GMT -5
I see two reasons, first and foremost the Grandson wants it for his own. Sad but it is his by blood. Secondly and this to is probably a factor although slight, was the fact that so many of the ones that you invited treated it like their own. The guy I hunt with has permission to hunt on like 10 acres. I only hunt it when he wants to hunt. It is his by permission, not mine. Sounds like your friends forgot that. Sad but at least you have a good place to hunt.
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Post by daworz on Sept 28, 2007 13:40:38 GMT -5
I hunt alot of times solo? And that can be ok at times but sometimes i take a friend with me and we chat back and forth on radios, and i enjoy that also, it helps pass the time and nice when one of us scores? or both and then its real nice! But i also loved the hunting camp, sitting around and shooting the bull, but then it got ruined by a few that were drinking more than hunting and started bring women to camp and i quit going, that created alot of problems for a few, which are no longer married?
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Post by Sleazy E on Sept 28, 2007 13:51:08 GMT -5
I hunt solo about 90% of the time... I actually prefer it... I have noticed that I sit longer (my friends are always ready to leave before I am)... and you don't have to worry about anyone "cutting you off".... The only time I hate hunting alone is when I have to track... and drag, but aside from that it is great.
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