How many hunt alone?

[leatherneck]

This is an interesting thread. I guess I should feel blessed. I have a couple of good hunting buddies that I hunt with. I guess I would feel lost if I didn't have somebody else to share my memories with. We hunt different areas of the farm but always meet up after the hunt. I guess I would feel a little lonely as well if I came from the woods to my truck and didn't have anyone to share it with. Hmmm, interesting.

Mike

[SilverTip]

I hunt alone most of the time, sometimes relatives and friends come up for a hunt.

Billy

[barebow17]

I bowhunt a 100% solo. Gun season I like to hunt with relatives.

[screamin]

Almost always alone for the last 20 yrs. Buuuttt, this yr my 13 yr old daughter came along and she has decided she wants to hunt next yr. I find I am more excited about that then anything.

[centaur]

I hunt alone a lot. I have 'hunting buddies', but I prefer the solo method; quieter, more introspective. If I am hunting bugling elk, I would prefer a partner, however; preferably one with a strong back and a large backpack.

[stagetek]

After hunting with friends until the mid-ninties. I've bowhunted alone ever since. Gun season I hunt with my son, and would probably quit gun hunting if he didn't join me. I've thought about bowhunting with friends again, but not really sure.

[Covey]

My 10 year old son is coming on to be a bowhunter and I'm sure he'll move in to be my hunting partner, but it's kinda nice having a buddy to share the hunt with! a good hunting partner is hard to come by, especially when you just bowhunt only! Thank's for all the replies, Jason

[ron w]

Gun hunted in a party for years in the Adirondacks, then started to do my own thing. Got back into bow more serious and it lends its self to a more solo experiance. Wife would rather I did not go alone but its not always possible. Started hunting with Adk. Ken last year a bit and it seems to work out alright. Not everyone can hunt alone, it just works for some folks and not for others.

[yekrut]

90% of the time I go alone, I like it alone but also enjoy my dads company!

[bretto]

Unless I'm hunting out of town I always hunt alone. I like hunting with other people it just doesn't work out most of the time.

[bunky]

The last two years have been alone.  My teenaged sons seem to always have something ele to do.  I'm hoping that they will get interested in hunting again.

[buckster]

My boys have absolutely no interest in hunting, they used to appease me when they were younger but at 18 & 21 now, they just aint interested.

As a result, I probably hunt along about 80% of the time.

[StickBowManMI]

Solo. Its not always easy to find a compatible person to bowhunt with you. I had a couple that I used to hunt for about 20 years; but I moved away from that state. I now hunt alone but not by my choice.

[FOXXNTROUT]

100% I move to much to actually get to know anyone since grade school. I prefer it.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Not anymore.  My wife has started bowhunting and while I loved hunting alone, I am really enjoying sharing the woods with her and watchint her learn about stalking, hunting, and making clean kills.

[Pat B.]

I hunt alone.  Seems like I can spend a lot of time in the woods thinking about nothing other than hunting and how fortunate I am that God provided me with another wonderful day outdoors.

I was hunting about a quarter mile from my wife.  I heard a horrific noise and then it came by me.  A 500 pound elk, it passed by me and went on about a hundred yards, when a truck pulling a wagon rattled down a hill about a quarter mile away and it came tearing back to with in twenty yards of me. I made a grunty sound to scare it away and only made it mad.  I felt pretty much alone right then.  This is North west Iowa, there are not supposed to be rutting elk and mountain lions, but we have both apparently.  There are no elk farms anywhere in this area either.

[Wannabe1]

Yep, 99% of the time I'm alone. Like the solitude and I can take my time in all that I do.

[Hot Hap]

50-50 with my son. Hap

[Brian Krebs]

elk bugling is best done with other hunters - and I put my time in doing that; but most of my hunting is done solo. I might take bear bait back in with a friend; but most of my bear hunting is done alone.

I was sitting yesterday in a blind; waiting for the southbound bucks I have been seeing walking by it. I was therefore looking north; and had a shot to my left. I had a northbound doe stick its head into the blind; and its first inhale made its eyes cross.
It got out of there fast. Now if I had someone else in the blind; I would have had to put up with WAY to much mean laughter !!!

Better this stuff happens with no witness' !