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Post by 10point on Nov 12, 2013 20:55:29 GMT -5
In the past I spent a lot of opening morning gun seasons with my Dad but for the 2nd year in a row it looks like I will be hunting by myself unless my son decides to go. The few properties I hunt are rather small and 2 can be crowd unless hunting in a double stand together. I don't mind hunting alone, in fact I kind of enjoy not having to wait on someone else to get ready or deciding when to leave or what not but I do miss sharing the hunt with someone. Last week I had planned on hitting big oaks with my Dad but he ended up having some minor heart issues and was in the hospital a few days before so weren't able to go. Texting other friends about there hunts is almost like hunting with them so that's good. Just wondering how many of you mainly hunt alone also?
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Post by gumbootbill on Nov 12, 2013 21:01:44 GMT -5
I'm a loaner. Untill i kill one then i call in the young guns to help pack it out.
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Post by hunthard4 on Nov 12, 2013 21:06:27 GMT -5
My dad and I hunt my grandpas property together bow and gun. Whenever I'm home from school, he takes the day off and hunts with me. We will have my brother, my dad, and myself hunting my grandpas 100 acres this Saturday morning. Goodluck.
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Post by steve46511 on Nov 12, 2013 21:13:33 GMT -5
Pretty normal situation for me to hunt alone.
The only time anyone else is in the woods is a RARE day during bow season and the weekends during firearm.
I make sure a couple buddies know where my stands ARE just in case I don't come home but to be honest no one would know I didn't come home since I live alone too. This has been a subject tossed around and I will take your thread as a reminder to set something up so someone is expecting a txt from me when I get in the truck.
One never knows.
When out on a longer sit, I normally txt someone every 3 hours or so but I've never set up anything that they would know something was wrong if I didn't.
Thank you for bringing this back to my attention. So used to hunting alone for all these decades that it's easy to push such thoughts aside.
God Bless
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Post by 10point on Nov 12, 2013 21:23:17 GMT -5
Last year one day I was doing an all day sit and about 3 o'clock I see the landowner driving around on his tractor. He is an older gentleman and normally wouldn't be out doing this unless he had been mowing. I thought he might be looking for me and come to find out he was. He was worried because I had been so long. I don't think he realized some people are crazy enough to sit in a tree all day.
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Post by mstr2175 on Nov 12, 2013 21:30:09 GMT -5
I typically go alone but I'll go with my buddy whenever we can. Just easier to not have to worry scheduling when were both available and instead just going when I can. I let a few people know when and where I'm going every time I go out
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Post by tenring on Nov 12, 2013 21:31:22 GMT -5
On the first few days of gun season, I'll be in the same old spot, on the ground, on 160 acres, by my self, taken a bunch of deer there. Kinda like the solitude, enjoy watching the sun come up, birds coming around, same old squirrel I've see several years in row coming through the trees, and always busts me while he is in the same Cedar tree. And with a little tricky driving, I can back my truck real close to the kill, and break out the rope and pulley and into the truck it goes.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 12, 2013 21:36:10 GMT -5
Yep in Indiana I am the last of the Mohicans.
All of my old gang has passed on in one way or another. Some are hunting other places with their family or friends and a few are hunting in the "happy hunting grounds". The "Ebenezer Gang" is now a "Gang of One".
When I hunt Illinos it is with a group of 6 or 7 others. It is a pure deer camp and I really enjoy the fellowship there.
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Post by dbd870 on Nov 12, 2013 21:52:07 GMT -5
During archery always; come gun season I'm with my friend in KY, JW, or the gal I've been helping out.
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Post by jdaily on Nov 12, 2013 23:05:16 GMT -5
Most times, I hunt alone, simply because I make my own hours and everyone else is at work. This gun season, I will have 2 of my kids hunting. My daughter is xing the days til she can gun hunt.I duck hunt most of the season by myself, but I'm good with that!
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Post by drs on Nov 13, 2013 4:56:08 GMT -5
Yep in Indiana I am the last of the Mohicans. All of my old gang has passed on in one way or another. Some are hunting other places with their family or friends and a few are hunting in the "happy hunting grounds". The "Ebenezer Gang" is now a "Gang of One". When I hunt Illinos it is with a group of 6 or 7 others. It is a pure deer camp and I really enjoy the fellowship there. Me too, Woody. I am a lone Deer Hunter, but did have some friend I hunted with for 15 years, down in Muhlenberg County, near Lake Malone, which ended in 2006 due to circumstances, that I rather not discuss. Had lots of fun hunting with them and the fellowship that went along with the Hunting. Harvested lots of Deer down there, over that 15 year period. So as you said the group of four Hunter + me is now just ME in a different area. Knowing this fact sometimes really gets me down, especially this Deer Season. Losing those friends and that great hunting spot kind of taken some of the desire to Hunt Deer anymore out of me. |
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 13, 2013 6:17:41 GMT -5
I'm a loner. I'm the only one allowed to hunt the properties that I do, so taking others isn't really a possibility. But even if I could, I'd still prefer to hunt alone. The only scent, noise, movement, etc. that I have to worry about is my own. I don't have to worry about whether a buddy is cold or bored and wants to leave or not. Obviously I have to hunt with someone on refuge hunts though. LOL!
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Post by elmo on Nov 13, 2013 7:36:35 GMT -5
I'm with m4, but I do have a good buddy that knows when and where I go just in case. Plus he is my tracker since I am color blind and can't see blood on the ground. He also helps with the dragging and hanging.
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Post by sarge3739 on Nov 13, 2013 7:56:54 GMT -5
I hunt with a partner whenever we both have time. Also hunt alone But celebration beer always taste better when theres someone there to cheers.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 13, 2013 8:23:11 GMT -5
To me the fellowship of the hunt is a major portion of the hunt. I still enjoy the actual hunt portion of the hunt, but the before and after is not the same. That is one reason I liked how the "live from the stand" thread took off. It was a cyber hunting group exchanging what is/was happening in their neck of the woods. That is neat, even for the hunters who would rather hunt alone..
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 13, 2013 8:48:29 GMT -5
I hunt with a partner whenever we both have time. Also hunt alone But celebration beer always taste better when theres someone there to cheers. And the one that got the deer bought the beer ...or lunch... I also miss The Old Fox Tavern in Lynnville where all the gun hunters went after the morning opening day of the gun season. Pulling into the parking lot to see "all the dead ones"" and shoot the breeze before ordering up their famous cheeseburger and chili.. It burned down and was never replaced. |
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Post by GS1 on Nov 13, 2013 8:57:08 GMT -5
Cheeseburger and chilli, woody? What about a brain sandwich?
I hunt alone 99% of the time, but there are others hunt the same farm.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 13, 2013 9:10:18 GMT -5
Cheeseburger and chilli, woody? What about a brain sandwich? I hunt alone 99% of the time, but there are others hunt the same farm. Ohhhh... never did a brain sandwich. Their dressed greasy cheeseburgers were great though.. After it burned some of us started eating at "Mean Gene's" in Lynnville. If we felt real hungry for good food we went to Dale and ate at Wendal's. The country store at Selvin made a pretty good ham and chesses sandwich.. |
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 13, 2013 9:33:35 GMT -5
I have always deer hunted alone, but this year my Brother-in-law has decided he wants to start hunting. So we will be together Saturday at least, and hopefully I'll be able to help him gut, drag, etc. if he gets one.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 13, 2013 11:46:37 GMT -5
I'm with m4, but I do have a good buddy that knows when and where I go just in case. Plus he is my tracker since I am color blind and can't see blood on the ground. He also helps with the dragging and hanging. I can't see deer blood on the ground either, and have to fetch my wife or a friend if the deer gets out of my sight. My wife has gotten pretty good at it after 18 years. Lol! |
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