Hunting Preference?

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lizziedog1

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Who, if anyone, do you go hunting with?

Do you prefer to hunt alone? Do you usully go with a trusted buddy? Do you like to go hunting with a bunch of other guys?

Most of the time, I hunt solo. Once in a great while I'll hunt with a good friend of mine. Rarely do I go hunting with more then one other fellow. In fact, I can't remember the last party hunt I went on.
 
For the past 15 years or so, alone...but my son is now 12, so I have an up and coming hunting buddy when he's ready.
 
Much of the time I go alone, but I have a few select friends that I like to hunt with (one at a time).

Once in a great while, I'll take a "new" person out hunting. Sometimes it works out and I gain a friend from the experience; usually I get a little frustrated with the lack of...something...and nothing comes of it other than another day afield.

I don't care for hunting in a group. Having several around camp is "tollerable", but I prefer to not have to deal with it.

I've been called "anti-social", but I'm really not. I'm just sort of particular about the company I keep.

Daryl
 
i hunt alone and with one or 2 different people usually. The large party hunts are enjoyable but i find them exceedingly dangerous, and its also hard for me to take a large hunt like that seriously......all those people tromping thru the woods takes the edge off for me
 
I like the solitude of hunting alone but will hunt with other family members and close friends. I've never been part of a "deer camp" and have never group hunted birds or rabbits. I've never had the desire to do the group thing. I've also found that it is not easy to find another person that has similar interests and goals. It's not that they are not good people or good hunters......just take a different approach to hunting than I do.
 
I like to go with my 2 boys so they can learn. I really like teaching them. Other than them 2 I found that the only time I have fun and not get frustrated is with my step pops. We been hunting buddies since I was about 12 years old.
 
family

I have been hunting with my nephew since he was 10yrs old. Have to say it has been a great pleasure to watch him grow into a good hunter over the last 17 years, and we still hunt together. In the past 3 years my wife has started to hunt, and I have to say it's a blast to hunt with her also. We have the same feelings about hunting and it's time we can share toghter as well.
 
My son and daughter. Daughter hasn't been out with me for the past few years as she's 15 and has a boyfriend that soaks up her spare time. Got a way around that, though. I think the boyfriend's wanting to go with me this winter :D.
 
Same here.

I prefer to hunt alone. I'd hunt with my Dad sometimes, but he's in Michigan now. I'm gonna love huntin' with my son when he gets of age, but that's a long way off...

I prefer solo because it's just me, I "control" everything that one man can. Should I spot game, I know to stop if I'm stalking, as where a buddy may still be in motion and that may be the difference in a kill or just a day in the field (that's huntin', and it's not always only about the harvest) but the trade off to that is I'm the only pair of eyes and I may not see game before a huntin' buddy would...

Always consider Your quarry, and any other inherent dangers that may exist.

For every action, there's a positive and negative reaction...
 
In my early and eager years, I was mostly a solo hunter. In my thirties, my father and two close hunting friends and "us kids" leased a ranch. Great times around the campfire. Solo sitting in tree stands at daylight, and then meet for a two-person walking hunt; sometimes solo.

Everybody was experienced, so safety wasn't a problem. We'd occasionally do a group walk in a valley, with the knowledge that the uphill/upwind guy would likely be the only one to get a shot. That commonly led to a little buck jumping up and folks went to yelling, "Shoot him! Shoot him!" If somebody sucked in and killed, the next "bit" would be, "Awwww....Why'd you shoot that poor little old thing?" :D:D:D

Now? I try to get folks to bring their own kids and I sorta educate them about how-to in my neck of the woods. I mostly hunt the campfire, nowadays.
 
I usually go hunting with a good friend of mine. He always makes sure when he gets a lease that it's OK to bring a friend or 2. Great guy! But when it comes time to hunt we head our seperate ways. I enjoy the solitude and I'm much more comfortable knowing there are no other people in my vicinity (safety). I have been dove hunting with a group and I can say I hated that. They broke, for me a major rule, by drinking:mad::eek:. NOT A GOOD COMBO! I left their company to go on my own far far away! Drinking is for afterwards when you are sitting around the fire or cleaning your game. I love the company afterwards, but while I'm hunting I like to be alone.
 
I don't care if camp has others in it and have a couple good friends to hunt with and share expenses with. Don't hunt localy ,just can't get into that ,if home i should be doing something other than hunting... Go away to hunt we have maybe 2 to 4 people max for up to 3000 acres at a time so it is real hard to bump in to someone else. We locate our stands on a map and mark the area we are hunting on a map and enjoy the day in the woods.
 
I am too hardcore for most people.I take my hunting VERY SERIOUS and have not found anyone as dedicated as I am to being successful.I find that when I put my mind to it I am able to hunt hard and take whatever game I am after.So far a bear,a moose,an elk and countless whitetails have been the results of my efforts.
Most people I have tried to hunt with are careless when it comes to scent control and making noise in the woods.I am primarily an archery hunter and by the time I pick up a rifle my senses are sharpened to a razors edge.I apply my archery hunting skills to rifle hunting and it becomes "easy" to kill animals.I have found it easier to hunt alone than to allow someone else to ruin my hunts.We can be "friends" we just can't hunt together.
 
Back when I was 10 foot tall and bulletproof, I hunted mainly by myself. As I get older I have found it much better to have at least one other friend with me on the lease. This not only is a safety feature, but also a help factor as well.
We have 8 guys that hunt on our lease, and only 2 of us at a time can get off work to hunt at a time, so it works out pretty convenient.
 
I have one friend that I hunt with. I have known him 20+ years. I trust him with my life.

We sometimes have a bigger group at camp, but he is the only one I roll out of camp with.
 
Started with relatives and neighbors. Did solo hunting till after marriage. Then with inlaws sometimes. Now the inlaws are a bit long in the tooth and I hunt solo again.
But now solo means sitting on a farm or in an orchard that's not more than a couple miles from a farm house. Not what you'd call real solo.
 
This thread has basically been limited to big game hunting (no wing shooting) so I will share my first hunting experience with you guys.

I was living in Wisconsin and used to work as a bouncer at a given bar where I met a group of fellow students who where avid hunters, so they said. Hunting season came around and I was invited to go along in my first deer hunt. The hunt was set for a Saturday and I had to work Friday till 3:00 a.m. So the guys show up at the bar at @ nine and the drinking starts. A couple of hours into the night I figured the hunt was off right?

At 3:00 am the guys said off we go! Curiosity took the better of me over my better judgement and I picked my Winchester 94 Trapper in .30-30 and went along. We drove up north I don't know where for a good 2 hours and reached a desolate long stretch of road. We where 7 hunters and everyone spread @ 50 yards way from each other and started to "push" or march in the same direction.

At this time, needless to say, I stayed with the cars. They did manage to get two deers. The rest of the day was a lot of fun but I just can't imagine a more dangerous way of hunting.:o

All my other hunting trips were with no more than other 2 hunters and under much safer circumstances.

For wing shooting it's a different story. For opening day the hunting group usually exceeds 15 but everyone knows each other and everyone is a responsible hunter. For the second and latter weekends 4 - 5 hunters.
 
Before I hunt, I like to do a few shots of 151 rum, and then when I'm feeling the effects I like to fire a few shots into the ground by my feet, just to get pumped up and feel like I'm alive!

Then I politely tell the little lady that I need my 10 hours of sleep in order to be bright & bushy tailed for the hunt the next morning, if she doesn't mind please leaving me alone.

This NEVER goes over well. :D:D:D

I like hunting in groups, for sure; makes the experience sooo much more enjoyable. Especially waterfowl hunting, oh hell yeah!
 
one at a time

I have a couple buddies that i hunt with and i have a bunch
of buddies i can fish with but most its just me and one buddy
that has almost the same goals in a day afield or a four day trip to the
olympic penninsula or to the deschutes or some thing like that me and
AL been all over the place mostly on fishing trips backpack fishing trips
and stuff and he,s got a sweat camo chevy 4x4.i would like it if my brother made more time for the outdoors but he,s a general contractor two kids and a wife that does not work so he pretty much has no free time.
 
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