Does anyone on here go backpack hunting?

[User00025]

Have overnighted a number of times between hunts, Hammock, bivi bag or tent, depending on where the base was going to be. Not done multi-nights though, always back to the larder in the morning with anything.

Viking Safari in Norway used to arrange horseback hunts like this, for reindeer. I don't know whether Vermund and Solvaar are still in No., they had a lot of business in Africa, and a property there too.
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Very similar, used to have a mate come up from Hereford to do medic training in Glasgow hospital. Nearest thing to a war zone apparently.
After his two week stint we would take off with Bivi bags and hammocks(depending on weather) for a couple of days in big forestry blocks, usually winter so deer hung for later retrieval. Good craic but too old now.

 

[Jon P]

Our main stalking ground is a good 2 hour drive from home so summer roe bucks involve a few of us travelling down on a lunch time, set our tents up and then stalk till dark, then a few beers and sleep , then back up before first light to stalk till 10 am, then head home via the game dealers , . Out side lock down this happens a few times a month, we are around 50 yr old and I think I getting to old for it TBH , Wales still on lock down so can’t get out at mo, I would like to find somewhere to take my horses and travel further afield though , will be difficult to find Somewhere like that in the UK though

 

[Heym SR20]

I am part of a sundicate in the far North of Scotland. You access after a few miles of forest road, then unlock a gate and lock it behind you, then another couple of miles up a to a turning circle by a loch.

I often take a tent and camp. Just good for the sole. You can stay at the Ulbster Arms, but its £50 or £75 a night for B&B and a good 45 minutes away. When camping you get out at first and last light as well as in middle of day.

In Germany the hunters all have hunting cabins in the woods. Some are luxurious, but most are two rooms - one a bunk room, the other a dining area with a wood burning stove and an outside brae / sitting around. Loo is a separate long drop.

Last summer my German friends took me to Austria. An off grid mountain farm house. If the Chamois had been very high, and later in the season we would have climbed up high, hunting till last light, slept in a mountain hut and hunted the following day. Instead we left at 3am for a brutal hour and a half walk up an Alp to be on the tops at first light.

I have done trips in Scotland where have walked up a Munro with a paraglider, bivied on top and then flown off following morning. Also once canoed down Loch Veyatie, camped, climbed Suilevan - flew off the top then canoed back.

 

[Tahrnz]

I can recommend Kiwi hunting, a real experience that will test anyone's mettle, especially if you go solo and take all you need on your back.
Took me a couple of hours driving a single rough 'track' half way round Lake Hawea, Southland before I started my 5 hour trek to reach the hut i was over-nighting in. Hunted a massive area during the 'roar' for 14 days and fly-camped the odd night or two and wouldn't have missed it for the world. Hardest things to get used to though was the possums trying to get into the tent/hut with you after dusk to nick your grub and the rapid weight loss!
A less painful experience if you hire a helicopter ride to your hut and back.

 

[alberta boy]

Yes . It's still a very common way of hunting here . When you're hunting some game , like Bighorn Sheep , it's pretty much the only way to do it in a lot of areas . I tend to go for about a week when after any animal , other than local White-Tails ( they're all around where I live ) so it's always a bit of an involved operation . Our camp can be pretty rudimental , like a lean too , or tent , all the way up to a kitted out hunting trailer . No matter what , we are in very remote areas and hunt a lot of wilderness .

AB