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oneshot

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Take off with your Muzzleloader,stay as long as you can it the woods.I'm planning leaving my woman for awhile,got several thousand acres to play with next to the house,with a river.Take my Muzzleloading Shotgun,few hooks,have a Solo Party.

What you think?Wife says I'm nuts.

oneshot
 
I say, do it!!! A self imposed exile to the woods is better then an imposed exile to the doghouse!!! ::
 
A man's got to do things by himself once in a while...

It's not wrong, its just the way we are...
 
I've done single overnights alone, and three or four days on several occasions with a friend. We used to canoe into a remote swamp and bowhunt from a basecamp - where we would hunt on our own during daylight and then meet back to confirm that the other was still alive. He just died last year in a motorcycle accident and I am glad I was able to spend the time I did when I did. Even if all we had to eat for four days was chili. :shocking:

I think my wife would have me committed if I suggested I was going to totter off into the woods on my own for a week. Do it while you can! I got the sailboat so at least I could still 'disappear' for weeks at a time while taking her along (It would be hard to 'trek' dragging along a flush toilet and a shower). ::
 
Years ago up in Alaska when I was single I used to treck off by myself and camp by some nice little trout lakes. It was nice to be alone and fish in peace and quiete.
Now with a wife and three boy's it's just nice to get out to the garage for an hour or so of "me" time.

Huntin
 
Used to do it, and will again once this house is finished. 3-5 days is about all the longer I want to be gone anymore. Fall and winter is the time to be in the woods. Spring and summer I usually floated creeks.

Vic
 
I don't do overnighters... don't have the equipment or the skills.

I do walk the local mountain ridges alone as often as I can. I wear modern boots cause the old feet won't abide the lack of arch support in the mocassins.

But, just the flintlock and the hunting bag and my imagination and my knowledge of what happened hereabouts in the 1750's and 1760's... well that's enough to give me "a feeling"...

I live in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 12 miles from George Washington's famous Fort Necessity. I live about 4 miles from Jumonville Glen... I can see the upper end of the Glen from the back porch.

Jumonville Glen is where Colonel Washington and HalfKing ambushed a group of French trappers and traders and basically triggered the F&I war.

I just know that my footsteps go in some of the same places that some of theirs did.

Regards to all,

Ironsights Jerry.
 
I say go for it. A few days not more than a week usually at 10-11000 ft. in the mts. nearby is my favorite thing. I'll be heading up there as soon as the snow melts, nothing like it.
 


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