Suburban Deer

[Yoder]

Awesome bucks but it's just not the same shooting them in your back yard. It's like shooting them over a feeder.

 

[Scotte17]

Lots of opportunities just like that here in WA with bow.

 

[eddiewiggles]

I used to work at a small grocery store when I was in high school. I ran a register most of the time and since it was a small local store, most of our customers were the same older folks.

One summer, the same lady came in a few times over the course of a week or two buying tomato plants. I made a comment about how massive her garden must be and she replied with a comment about how she can’t have one because the deer keep eating it. I got her phone number and hunted over there a couple years under the promise that I would kill every deer I saw. It was archery only in a pretty busy neighborhood. First deer I killed was a small buck in velvet and of course it ran right across the road. As soon as I stepped onto the road a cop came over the hill and I got to explain what I was doing. He didn’t give me any trouble. Had another doe on a death run go about 5 houses down and slowly die in someone’s back yard. After I got out of the army I tried to get back in touch with her but the number has been disconnected and I left it alone. I would’ve loved to see what kind of quality deer I could’ve killed out of her yard.


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[WildShot]

I have deer around my house that i watch and feed. I could legally shoot one with a bow but havnt yet. If one like you have pictured shows i will be hanging a lock on

 

[Swamp Fox]

Awesome bucks but it's just not the same shooting them in your back yard. It's like shooting them over a feeder.

No.

Suburban hunting isn't usually 'shooting them in your backyard' and not all feeder situations are what you think.

That said, suburban hunting is not for me.

I'm 98 percent sure if suburban hunting were all that was open to me, I'd hang it up.

 

[Rich M]

Whatever is legal.

The guy who wont shoot a “180” buck in his back yard just might be a liar.

I shot a legal doe out of my living room window once and had no problem skinning and processing it. No guilt or lost sleep.

Dont look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[Long Cut]

Whatever is legal.

The guy who wont shoot a “180” buck in his back yard just might be a liar.

I shot a legal doe out of my living room window once and had no problem skinning and processing it. No guilt or lost sleep.

Dont look a gift horse in the mouth.

To each their own my friend.

 

[Anschutz]

I grew up just south of Atlanta in the back of a 400+ home subdivision. Our house had 5 acres and our neighbor had 5 acres that backed up to a 300+ acre deer lease. I killed my first several deer about 100 yards shy of our property line. Whoever owned the lease sold when I was in high school and neighborhoods started going in but there are still deer back there.

Barely 100" but my biggest to date whitetail. Saw a few larger than him but wasn't ever able to close the deal. Funny thing about this deer is I was in the stand about 5 minutes before I shot him but spent 4 hours picking through thickets to find him. Only ran about 100 yards but I lost blood pretty quickly.

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[MeatInTheFreezer]

Here's some city mule deer. Just gotta find their home in the legal hunting woods.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Here’s a deer my brother killed in Lynchburg yesterday:

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[KenLee]

Stick em in the neck and be prepared to "turn and burn"

 

[long hunter]

Not my neighborhood, but these two strolled by the jobsite fall before last, just outside of Cleveland. Both were no more than 20 yards. I'm a law abiding man, but I'd be lying if I said bad thoughts didn't at least enter my mind.

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Sub sonic suppressed 450 bushmaster should do the job rather well

 

[Wildone]

The eastern part of my county is fairly rural and has some large chunks of public to hunt on. The western part of the county is all heavy residential. About 10 years ago they started opening up some of the western townships to bow hunting. They had not been hunted in a century. Guys were killing 180’s out of peoples yards like crazy and posting them on the net like they had done something special. One guy killed a 232” and sent his picture into trophy hunter magazine. I call the them swing set bucks. I’m sorry but that’s not hunting and I’m not interested. There is nothing about urban that even resembles a hunt it’s exterminating . One guy told me he sits in his stand in his yard and puts the tv in the bedroom window and watches the football game. It’s like shooting farm animals. Screw that chit.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

That’s a fair perspective. My brother hunts them for the meat. And it’s far better to do that than to see them mowed down by minivans and rotting on the side of the road.

On my farm, I don’t care whether it’s a three pointer or a twelve pointer. If it has antlers, I am going to eat it. Although at the rate I am going the past three days of blackpowder season, I am going to be eating a lot of beef this year.


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[wind gypsy]

I live on 6 acres and just the other side of my property line is a neighborhood in city limits. I could shoot a turkey near daily from my kitchen window, but can’t bring myself to hunt on it for them because it’s too easy. If a nice buck started hanging around, he’d probably be in trouble.