Never, its a rule at our deer lease. A guy was scouting Lake Lavon a couple months back and got stuck in the mud and fell forward into the mud and suffocated.

I lost my best friend Novemeber 1st, last year in a hunting accident at the deer lease. I was not in the stand with him. I had taken his 15 yr old son to a wheat field to hunt. As he entered his elevated box blind, wasp's swarmed out after him. He lost his balance and fell. Unfortunately, we all use T-posts at the base of our stands to fasten the legs down. Keith fell and was impaled on the T-post. It entered his left side just above his belt, and exited his back near his left kideny. He called his son on the walkie talkie, and we got to him within minutes. He had managed to get himself off of the T-post and had began to walk down a dirt road before collapsing. Some ranchers came by and helped me load him into the back of their truck. Keith died shortly after we headed out. The doctors stated that due to his injuries, if a truama center had been 50 yards from where he fell, they could not have saved his life.
I guess my point is, if it's my/your time to go, it must be that time.
Everyone take care, be safe, and please don't put T-post near the base of your stand,, move them away from the base, and run tension lines
Clint

i hunt alone all the time. my wife doesn't hunt so she doesn't go out there. i set all my bow stands up alone i keep my phone close sometimes but i only hunt about 10mints from my house and my wife knows were my stand are and if im not home at the right time and haven't called she will come find me