Are you hunting solo?

[Killdeer]

Nobody in my family hunted. I always had to.

Finding my way in the woods that I love, answering whispers and chasing theories leave little room for discussion and second guessing, even if nobody else were there. Discussing where to go and when to meet up would put my mind in a different place. It would also constrain my experience. What if I had to be someplace in half an hour, (I gotta watch a clock now?) and I had just gotten an inkling, feeling, message that I should be at the Bear Poo Hall from now until dark? Sorry. I gotta go with my gut, cut the scheduling, and let the magic work.

My husband has helped me drag three deer, Bill Q. Helped with my first kill, Pete E. and Sean P. helped with my first muzzleloader buck, but the rest have been drug by my sorry a…

I know a lot of folks like to map out a hunt as though it were a tactical mission, enter as a team and take the citadel. They probably come out with more meat than I do. I am chasing other things.

I hunt alone. Love it. In hunting alone, in solo conversation, I find, um… myself!
That is what hunting means to me. A way to connect with the Creator, to know myself better, trust myself, and to make myself worthy to receive gifts of sustenance, spirit, and self-worth. To each his own.

Hunt well and honorably,
Killdeer

[soap creek]

When hunting near home I'm usually going solo. Occasionally I'll take a young person if they're interested. When hunting out of state I have shared a camp with friends.

[uglyjake]

Solo here.  Close friends have past.   

[landman]

With bow or with a rifle, I hunt deer alone.   It's not a social sport for me.

[Stump_pounder]

When I was in my Twenties I hunted alone a lot. but as I got older My son became abscessed with archery around the age of 10. We would sit in the back yard and shoot bows for a hour every night after I got home from work. played a game called archer of the night . basically I would let him out shoot me and he would be so happy. at twelve I took him on his first elk hunt and the rest is history. He now is 30 and lives just down the road. and anytime I go he is at camp. We hunt by ourselves most days but once a trip we spend it together. and at 55 its darn nice to have a young guy to help pack your bull out

[jcp161]

Always solo. Kids have no interest and former hunting partners have aged out. Not my preference but just the way it is for now. It’s either that or stay home.

[Maclean]

And staying home is not an option. Just sayin. 

[jcp161]

Agreed. Although as I get older, considering the places I go, that might be the wiser choice…

[Maclean]

Same here. My problem is that the desire to be out there chasing elk overrides any form of rational thought. It's bound to catch up to me one of these days.

[Jegs.mich]

Nothing better than hunting alone........ with a like minded friend. I hunt occasionally with a good friend we hunt very large tracts of public land a couple miles apart.

[strick9]

I logged 54 public land Whitetail hunts this year. 15 with the GF @ 250 yds away and 5 with my Dad in the same vicinity. I am a dummy OCD about finding mature public land bucks and hunting them so I never take anyone besides those two. I learned the hard way on that one lol. Somewhere there is a meme that says" I may tell you my hunting spots but when I do it's a lie". That would be correct.

[Jegs.mich]

Here's two of my hunting partners from bow camp 2022. We failed to get closer than 40 yards 3 different times.

[TooManyHobbies]

Except for three or four days during rifle season with my son,  I hunt alone.  He doesn't bow hunt unfortunately. Even if he did,  his job isn't conducive to the time needed. Also,  none of my friends hunt with a stick,  not that that matters.

[ron w]

Mostly alone, even with group hunts I usually go my own way. Hunted with group at a camp for years, as age came along they got lazy and I started going solo. I can’t do what Ion Edie but I still like the solitude!!

[Basinboy]

98% of the time……

[kennym]

Always alone on whitetail, but bro and I always text each other where we sit, and help on tracking/recovery.

Elk hunting always a couple in group for calling purposes...

[RIVERWOLF]

....We are never truly alone ;^)

As for hunting with others....back in the 60's-70's  me and my best friend Mitch used to walk forest and  old RR tracks roving & hunting Ground Griz.....sure do miss those times & my best friend.Sadly I didn't carry a camera much in those days...Just bow and arrows.

Other than the few 2 man bunny/ground griz  hunts , I have pretty much always been a solo hunter .....I  love-need-that oneness and will be forever grateful for my alone time afield . Alone - undistracted solitude -one on one with Nature ....Letting the wild soak in..........