Yard deer

[Cedarsavage]

So I got does that are in my yard almost every day. Lots of people feed them around me. I’m in a place where it’s legal to shoot them. I’d like to keep them coming in but I wanna cull one. How much would killing one of them affect their behavior?

 

[Pescetism]

Assuming they live there year-round it's possible that they shy away for a short amount of time but assuming the people around you keep feeding them their pattern(s) should change very little, if at all.

 

[Southernfried]

Well, they will go to the food source.

We have deer killed in the road between my house and the neighbors that are 400 yards away, and the deer still keep going to his silage pile and crossing the road. They are no better at crossing without getting hit than a opossum is lol.....now its funny when it ferments and the deer get drunk off it, but man they come running to it when they smell it lol hasnt slowed them down a bit.

 

[EdP]

The deer in my yard don't get shot but I do hunt elsewhere on my property. One location is from a box blind overlooking a food plot. When I shoot a deer on the food plot any other deer on the plot run away but are back again in a day or so. I think they might come back even faster to your yard as they are accustomed to seeing people there.

 

[taxidermybycam]

Shoot it in the head and try and shoot them in singles not when the later group is around,but that's easier said than done . You don't want the deer to run into the neighbors and create a political and legal mess.

 

[omicron1792]

Shoot it in the head and try and shoot them in singles not when the later group is around,but that's easier said than done . You don't want the deer to run into the neighbors and create a political and legal mess.

Legal mess?

 

[journeyman713]

I wouldn’t shoot one just yet. This time of year they’re more valuable as live decoys, good chance a buck will follow them in, in the next few weeks.

 

[taxidermybycam]

Legal mess?

Let's say it runs into someone's pool and bleeds out or rams it's head into someone's siding .etc etc

 

[kfili]

If you live in a neighborhood not at all. I can shoot in my yard, (.5-.75 acre lots) and will have deer back the same night. I def suggest just letting the neighbors know you do/can this.

 

[7RemMag]

A suppressor with subsonics, if you have one, would also be very helpful in this situation.

I can think of numerous times growing up where we whacked a doe or two in a given field in the morning and then went back in the afternoon and shot, or at least saw, more deer. This was before suppressor(s) were even part of the equation.