I'm going to have to call shenanigans i'm afraid.
I'm not a particularly masculine bloke. I'm scared by a lot of things. Being alone for one, and Darkness is another. Combine the two and I like to make up scenarios in my head that depict all manner of untimely demise in horrible and messy ways. Basically I scare myself silly in already frightening situations.
But I dont think i'm alone here in saying that *any* legitimate excuse to band together some mates with guns and head out into the woods, is one that any self-respecting bloke would jump at. You wouldn't even need to play it up, and you could leave with the best one liners.
"Honey" *slide-clunk of the rifle* "if i'm not back in a hour, you take this gun... and you come and you rescue me!"
What a hero you would be.