hunting alone

[NEHunter]

How many hunt alone?  Do you let the fact that no one will go slow you down? What about at night?  I'm new to hog hunting and will be working nights starting Monday so it may be hard to get anyone to go on my days off

[djhogdogger]

 I enjoy the company of others on a hunt. Of course if I didn't have anyone to go with (ever) then I would go alone.

 Just keep in mind that anything that can go wrong usually does and it is sure nice to have an extra set of hands, ears and eyes.

 Im sure that someone will want to tag along. 

[BA-IV]

Hunting alone will definitely let you learn your dogs and how they hunt better, because your paying more attention to them.  I've seen big boar hogs that I was glad I had help on because managing them by myself would have been almost impossible.  Couple of things that make life easier when hunting alone is duct tape and handcuffs.  Handcuffs make it super easy on big board and barrs and duct tape makes life easy when you put a piece over their eyes when your letting them back go.

[Jared H.]

I hunt alone most of the time.  Its usually more enjoyable when you have some good people to hunt with but I like to hunt enough I don't mind going on my own.  But like others said just be extra prepared because it can get interesting by your self...especially at night time.

[NEHunter]

Thanks for the replys I didn't know how common it was hog hunting alone I've dome it a couple of tomes but never at night. Hopefully after I get adjusted to nights I'll have some good Sunday night Monday morning stories

[halfbreed]

i hunted alone for a long time getting older now i try and have help . but when i was alone i would allways carry a kid rope with me for the big hogs . they is hell to throw buy your self    and i would rope the back leg and if possble put the other end over a limb and keep working that back leg up till i'd have it up in the air good then i'd tie the dog back and procede to getting the hog tied at a slower pace . it's hell of alot of work on the big ones when you're alone . got in to more wrecks than i care to remember . stickin em or shooting em would be alot easyer [sometimes]  just be very careful and allways let someone know where you're going and be damn shure you got dogs you trust with your life .

[charles]

when i first started back up, i hunted alone bc the diehard deer hunters were the 1s that also hogdogged, but would rather hunt horns than tusks and i strated hunting at night for the simple and respectful reason of deer season. i still manage to hunt alone, just bc of the same issues and also being new to the aera and the only guy i know in my area that hunts too, i dont want to overextend his offers to take me on the land he has permission to hunt. he is a good man and i would call a friend, but will not confuse his kindness for weakness and pester him to hunt his land.

[ETHHunters]

My job gives me the freedom to take off whenever I want. Its hard to find people to go during the week so I will go alone. I've caught a lot of hogs when hunting with my buddies that wonder what I would have done by myself. We never carry a gun when we hunt but I do when I go by myself. I have been in some situations when I sure wish I had some help but have managed so far. I would rather go with my buddies but im not gonna pass up a chance to go either.

[HOGDOGGERSPC]

HUNTING ALONE CAN BE EXCITING YOU KNOW THATS WHEN THE CRAP IS GONNA HIT THE FAN WHEN YOU DONT HAVE ANYONE AROUND TO HELP OR BACK UP YOUR CRAZY STORY.  JUST MAKE SURE YOU DO LET SOMEONE KNOW WHERE YOU GOING AND WHEN YOU WILL BE BACK.  I COULD SEE A EPISODE OF--------------I SURVIVED....STORY GOES SOMETHING LIKE.  WELL THERE I WAS ALL ALONE IN A CREEK 12 OF THEM AND ME AND 2 OF MY BEST DOGS. LOL

[NEHunter]

LMAO if i have one of those stories you'll hear about it here first.

[bullet72]

i hunt alone most of the time mostly at nite youll end up with some good storys with no back up get ready for that.tell somebody where ur going seriously.s--t happens u dont wont asearch party looking over two counties. till u get some hogs under you, like 150 or 200,  carry a gun 22 mag pistol will work. u will get in tight spots once in while shoot the hog save ur dogs .dont be macho man thats just my opion others may disagree

[NEHunter]

i carry a 357 when i go haven't used it but once because we lost the catch dog, but i will defiently have it on my hip.

[bullet72]

 i got my butt kicked by a boar the other night the land owner was with me wish i had a pistol  with me would of looked better. if i was alone id let him go. could of been real bad for a solo hunter stuff like that doest happen very often, but neather does a car wreck. man i cant spell very good!

[jesse]

i hunted a lone for a long time and at night . but a bout five years a go went out on a place the landowner call and .said got a sow and pigs in my garden got thair at dark let three curs loose made the rounds not a thaing got back to my truck loaded dogs still had my bulldogs out thay stared going nuts so kicked the curs back out went ten yards in a bad thicket and bay up for a bout five mins was trying to git all my stuff back on thay broke on cur was opening up right be hind what i thought was pigs and sow . i was in a big open place so i could tell thay were headin out in the open as soon as thay came out thay  stop did not even look turned both my bulldogs loose no vest not a thaing on first bulldog did not even get to catch hit him just right dead . sec bulldog caught i am thair but he cutin him ever move i try and try can not git him fliped so i let go of one leg and dig in my pocket for my case xx  left my big knife in truck as i got it out he got loose from me and turned last thing i remember was giting my knife open next thing was trying to git in my truck for my phone call my dad said my dogs are hurt and i am cut took a pint and a half of blood and 471 staples and 23 stiches lost three good dogs that night learned a lot that night if you hunt a lone be ready for any thaing and every thaing i did get lucky and hit that hog in a good spot he went a bout 100 yards and bleed out i have his teeth a round my neck

[BA-IV]

471 staples...that's a whole bunch of dang staplea, bet there's one helluva scar or scars

[jesse]

well not just one two in my left arm. took all the stiches to close thim up the one up the back of my left leg is 23 in long and the doc said it was at least 5/8 of a inch deep . thin the bad one was in the inside of my right leg not real long just 7 in but nick my big vain going up my leg. my mom had some pixs see if i cant find thim and post
 

[BA-IV]

Yeah no doubt, that would be something to see...I'd be wearing that SOB around my neck to.

[halfbreed]

that is a good story about what can and will eventually happen jesse thanks for sharing . i would also like to add that when i first started hunting these damn hogs . i didn't even know another hog hunter . i used to trim trees and brush for a living and i allways wore brush chaps [chainsaw proof ] they are easy to manuver in and are made of the same material as our cut vest and i was proudly wearing them when hog hunting alone saved me from being cut on numerus occasions . and if i'm ever hunting alone i will be wearing them , cause you just never know .

[adamp]

that is a good story about what can and will eventually happen jesse thanks for sharing . i would also like to add that when i first started hunting these damn hogs . i didn't even know another hog hunter . i used to trim trees and brush for a living and i allways wore brush chaps [chainsaw proof ] they are easy to manuver in and are made of the same material as our cut vest and i was proudly wearing them when hog hunting alone saved me from being cut on numerus occasions . and if i'm ever hunting alone i will be wearing them , cause you just never know .

I need to get a pair

[D.R.Stuart]

I hunt alone probably half of the time but I don't have a catch dog just bay dogs. So I don't have to worry bout throwin a hog and getting him tied. My catch dog is a Ruger 22. long rifle and she has caught on the ear everytime. I enjoy it like others have said you can really focus on your dogs. I'll be the first to admitt it can get interesting from time to time thats why I carry my 40. on my hip just in case.