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<blockquote data-quote="Hangfire" data-source="post: 3296749" data-attributes="member: 27673"><p>Nothing wrong with company once in awhile but I've always liked to hunt alone also.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago a buddy of mines older brother had a 20 acre plot of land willed to him up in the mountains above Willburton (which gave us access to more land than we could cover) that most everyone else in the family didn't even know existed let alone go to. After the pavement ran out it was another 45 minute drive over old over grown logging roads till it got to the point it was so thick that we'd park the truck, throw camo netting over it and then hike another 20 minutes to the cabin Melvin and I threw together (we'd each make three trips back and forth to the truck to get our food, drinking water and gear).........minus the snow and stove pipe our deer shack pretty much resembled the one pictured below.</p><p></p><p>After freezing our butts off at night the first two years and growing tired of cooking over a campfire the third summer prior to hunting season we finally wised up and humped in a used apartment size three burner gas stove that we we converted over to propane. The propane bottle was kept several yards from the cabin and we ran a line to the cabin and hooked it up to the stove inside through a hole in the wall.....at night we'd turn one burner on real low and that was enough to break the chill just enough inside the cabin to where we slept fairly well on our 2x4 bunk beds that we made.</p><p></p><p>To keep from smelling skunkish while in camp there was a small spring barely trickling out of the ground we found not far from the cabin that we damned up to create a pool deep enough to dip water out of with a coffee pot to fill a sun shower bag which we'd hang from a tree limb and take quick and COLD showers.</p><p></p><p>Anyway back to hunting alone, Melvin never took the whole week off for deer season but I always took the whole week of primitive and rifle off......we'd take off Friday early from work opening weekend about noon and drive down and Melvin would hunt Sat. and Sun. and drive back to OKC and I'd stay the rest of the week by myself and he'd come back the following Fri. (closing weekend) and hunt Sat. and Sun.</p><p></p><p>Neither Melvin or my wife were very fond of the idea of leaving me down there with no transportation or outside communication but I really, really enjoyed being down there by myself for the two weeks of primitive and modern rifle season.</p><p></p><p>At the time Melvin had a cell phone and after that first year of me being down there alone my wife went behind my back and ask Melvin if he'd leave his phone with me through the week and he readily agreed......after each of them had tried to call me several times the first week he left it for me and didn't get a answer I fessed up and told them that I never turned it on or carried it the whole week I was there alone.</p><p></p><p>We hunted down there both deer seasons for about ten years till a new logging road was cut a couple miles from the cabin and we started seeing other hunters.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]147442[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hangfire, post: 3296749, member: 27673"] Nothing wrong with company once in awhile but I've always liked to hunt alone also. Many years ago a buddy of mines older brother had a 20 acre plot of land willed to him up in the mountains above Willburton (which gave us access to more land than we could cover) that most everyone else in the family didn't even know existed let alone go to. After the pavement ran out it was another 45 minute drive over old over grown logging roads till it got to the point it was so thick that we'd park the truck, throw camo netting over it and then hike another 20 minutes to the cabin Melvin and I threw together (we'd each make three trips back and forth to the truck to get our food, drinking water and gear).........minus the snow and stove pipe our deer shack pretty much resembled the one pictured below. After freezing our butts off at night the first two years and growing tired of cooking over a campfire the third summer prior to hunting season we finally wised up and humped in a used apartment size three burner gas stove that we we converted over to propane. The propane bottle was kept several yards from the cabin and we ran a line to the cabin and hooked it up to the stove inside through a hole in the wall.....at night we'd turn one burner on real low and that was enough to break the chill just enough inside the cabin to where we slept fairly well on our 2x4 bunk beds that we made. To keep from smelling skunkish while in camp there was a small spring barely trickling out of the ground we found not far from the cabin that we damned up to create a pool deep enough to dip water out of with a coffee pot to fill a sun shower bag which we'd hang from a tree limb and take quick and COLD showers. Anyway back to hunting alone, Melvin never took the whole week off for deer season but I always took the whole week of primitive and rifle off......we'd take off Friday early from work opening weekend about noon and drive down and Melvin would hunt Sat. and Sun. and drive back to OKC and I'd stay the rest of the week by myself and he'd come back the following Fri. (closing weekend) and hunt Sat. and Sun. Neither Melvin or my wife were very fond of the idea of leaving me down there with no transportation or outside communication but I really, really enjoyed being down there by myself for the two weeks of primitive and modern rifle season. At the time Melvin had a cell phone and after that first year of me being down there alone my wife went behind my back and ask Melvin if he'd leave his phone with me through the week and he readily agreed......after each of them had tried to call me several times the first week he left it for me and didn't get a answer I fessed up and told them that I never turned it on or carried it the whole week I was there alone. We hunted down there both deer seasons for about ten years till a new logging road was cut a couple miles from the cabin and we started seeing other hunters. [ATTACH=full]147442[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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