I hunt alone. It my meditation time. My spiritual time. My time with God and nature. Sounds silly I know but it' s true. Uncle Ted' s right. It recharges my soul to be out there. If there' s someone else with you, you spend all your time chatting back and forth and lose the opportunity to soak it all in. Now having said that, this year I will be hunting a friend' s farm and he doesn' t let anyone hunt there alone. And I will be taking my wife and stepson out during shotgun season and guiding them in hopes of them both killing thier first deer. But I do love my solo time bow hunting.