Am I crazy or would you agree... solitude v success

[Ben Long]

Modest idea: I would hunt to a place with a lower success rates in exchange for a less crowding. I would swap some odds of success for having fewer people hunting the same space. Is this illogical? What's the threshold?

 

[INMT]

Modest idea: I would hunt to a place with a lower success rates in exchange for a less crowding. I would swap some odds of success for having fewer people hunting the same space. Is this illogical? What's the threshold?

Very logical in my opinion. Our zones might even overlap.

I encountered someone in a spot I hunt for the first time in 15+ years opening weekend. Talked with him and he chose to go there because of e scouting.

Buddy I took out shot a buck at first light. The other guy saw nothing. Gotta know the country.

 

[brockel]

Being around people sucks

Seeing nothing also sucks

 

[mtmuley]

. Gotta know the country.

This is big. I don’t kill giants, but killing elk where I do is knowing the country. mtmuley

 

[Nick87]

Being around people sucks

Seeing nothing also sucks

Being around people sucks worse. Imo.

 

[mtmuley]

Being around people sucks worse. Imo.

I am fortunate to hunt an area with a few other guys that have hunted it for over 30 years. Others hunt some but don't know how. We do ok. mtmuley

 

[Matthew57]

I think there’s a threshold. If there’s enough critters running around I don’t mind seeing some people.

 

[44hunter45]

Modest idea: I would hunt to a place with a lower success rates in exchange for a less crowding. I would swap some odds of success for having fewer people hunting the same space. Is this illogical? What's the threshold?

100%.

Solo, Solo, Solo

There are some HTer's I would hunt with, but they wouldn't invite me back. What with the snoring and shooting dinks.

 

[Irrelevant]

Being around people sucks worse. Imo.

To a point...

I have gone entire seasons, back to back even, in the Great Deer Desert of Chelan County without seeing a deer of any kind, and that has reduced my desire to hunt to the point where I effectively didn't this year. Yet I've never seen another hunter in the field.

 

[DFS]

Timing is everything.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Solitude for me!

 

[brockel]

Solitude for me!

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Bear taco

 

[Gellar]

Modest idea: I would hunt to a place with a lower success rates in exchange for a less crowding. I would swap some odds of success for having fewer people hunting the same space. Is this illogical? What's the threshold?

We talk about this in hunters Ed. The five stages of hunting. Most hunters experience the different stages, at their own pace. It is possible to be in different stages in a season, or even a day. I know I’ve left the house just wanting to shoot and shoot some more and an hour in I’m just sitting on a log watching birds and don’t care if I lift up my gun anymore. https://www.boone-crockett.org/five-stages-hunter-hunt-fair-chase

1. The limiting out stage
2. The shooting stage
3. The method stage
4. The sportsman stage
5. The trophy stage

 

[Nick87]

To a point...

I have gone entire seasons, back to back even, in the Great Deer Desert of Chelan County without seeing a deer of any kind, and that has reduced my desire to hunt to the point where I effectively didn't this year. Yet I've never seen another hunter in the field.

Have you considered hunting somewhere else?

 

[Nick87]

We talk about this in hunters Ed. The five stages of hunting. Most hunters experience the different stages, at their own pace. It is possible to be in different stages in a season, or even a day. I know I’ve left the house just wanting to shoot and shoot some more and an hour in I’m just sitting on a log watching birds and don’t care if I lift up my gun anymore. https://www.boone-crockett.org/five-stages-hunter-hunt-fair-chase

1. The limiting out stage
2. The shooting stage
3. The method stage
4. The sportsman stage
5. The trophy stage

Ive found my myself in different stages of that depending on what game I'm pursuing all in the same season.

 

[antlerradar]

Being around people sucks

Seeing nothing also sucks

In many of my old go to spots you can do both now days.

 

[Nick87]

In many of my old go to spots you can do both now days.

Most of mine you can only see people. Even better.

 

[buckbull]

With every passing year the needle keeps moving toward solitude.