First Lite Film: "In City Limits"

robby denning

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I watched this on my lunch today, 12 minutes of entertainment. Taylor Chamberlin hunts 150 days a year just outside of metro DC

totally worth the watch to see how different people find success in different parts of the country. I guarantee Taylor is as hard-core about hunting as any of our best western hunters.
 
and he's figured out how to represent hunters (even changing people's perceptions/stereotypes) in a place where there aren't many hunters (as a percentage of population). Good on him.

I thought it was interesting that when he has to pursue an animal onto another property, he changes into his street clothes. It works!
 
Another group did one of these video series in suburban Atlanta. They killed some big deer, I want to say it might have even been the state record.
 
I was surprised about how many different properties he was given permission to hunt. I thought he would have ran into a bunch of landowners who wouldn't let him hunt because "they like seeing the deer," and things like that. But I guess their tolerance for wildlife only goes so far when they're tearing up a $100,000 landscape job like the video mentions.
 
I hunt in suburban NJ in very similar situations and on my best property the first time I was there I asked the landowner if there was any part of the property he didn’t want me to be and he said. “ Rick I wouldn’t care if you sat in the lounge chairs next to the pool drinking pin-a coladas. Just kill the damn things!”


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Tags are pretty much unlimited for does on these hunts. They just need the population controlled. I have hunted the area quite a bit. There is a great group called Suburban Whitetail Management of Northern Virginia (SWMNV) that does a lot of the control. You can become a member by getting sponsored, then you have to pass a background check, and there are yearly qualifications. It is ran very well and a lot of the property owners will reach out and contact them to get a handle on the deer.
 
I just listened to him on the Chasing Tales podcast, super funny and a little more unedited than that. I like that he is promoting herd management, where as the Seek One guys in Atlanta smack huge deer, but never mention controlling numbers, just chasing huge bucks. Both are great videos though. I hunt similar stuff here in NC and it is unnerving watching a deer run towards the property line after its shot...
 
Interesting story. Thanks for sharing. Love to see the management side of hunting highlighted.


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This must be the guy I listened to on a saddle hunter podcast. Really cool guy. I’ve heard about the Atlanta group and their “basketball goal” video. They’re mainly focused on shooting bucks in people’s yards where this other guy is part of a group that really focuses on population control. Says he gets calls all the time from people who need help with deer eating their bushes. They have a year round deer season there in Northern VA bc of the deer numbers but they can only shoot 3 bucks.


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Taylor is the man! Really cool film and so much different than how most hunt white tails.


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That was a good video. He’s like the Broz of LRO. As in he gets to see so many deer get shot. Would love to hear his opinions on broadheads and archery gear since he has to be as close to 100% as he can to avoid the obvious bad scenarios that could play out with a wounded animal.


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I hunt in suburban NJ in very similar situations and on my best property the first time I was there I asked the landowner if there was any part of the property he didn’t want me to be and he said. “ Rick I wouldn’t care if you sat in the lounge chairs next to the pool drinking pin-a coladas. Just kill the damn things!”


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Hilarious


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