Do you hunters consider the wild animals outside your door off limits?

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Somewhere between the mallard duck stuff with brown and wild rice dressing and the molasses cured venison ham she has decided that a deer or two isn't going to make any difference.
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Made me laugh!

Thanks!
 
I have a very similar story, but I had to go back in and put on clothing to meet laphroaig's minimum clothing requirement. That Tom was rattling the windows. He was so close and so loud I heard him while in the shower. Once I breasted him out I finished my shower. Absolutely zero excitement to it, and that's when I figure out the bit about the food reserve on the hoof.
 
I refer to the bunnies and squirrels around my yard as MRE's if hard times ever come. (Meals Ready to Eat). Although the first day of spring turkey season started the other day, and as I walked out of the house, in the field next to my wife's car was a flock of turkeys and an ALBINO TOM. I went to get the shotgun, but the stupid cows were spread out all over and I couldn't get a good shot before they spotted me and were gone-gone.
 
I don't hunt "for looking at" animals at the house but pests don't live long lives.
 
I prefer to shoot deer close to home to keep them off the roads I drive. It is common around here for folks to shoot rabbits out of their yards to stock the freezer. I do it cut down on the fleas and the tapeworms my dogs can get from those fleas. Sq. get shot to train dogs and to limit loss of fruit from my trees. I could go on...
 
at the moment there is no shortage of game anywhere on this homestead so would just as soon shoot out my back door as anywhere.

however if things got to where i had to hunt for a living i would take a diff approach.

i would hunt farther away and leave closer animals for in case i was sick or injured and needed them.

thats basically the old mountain mans reason for not shooting out the back door. keep the game close for when you need it.
 
I hunt on my own property but not directly around my house. I enjoy seeing the deer & turkey around the house. Varmints are another story, coons, squirrels, crows, coyotes, possums and ground hogs are fair game. I would shoot any of those from my recliner if I could.
 
Doesn't matter to me if they're in the yard. When I lived in the country we would shoot deer from the sliding glass patio door.

Our main goal in hunting season is to put meat in the freezer. Don't give a rat's derrier about fair chase. It's already a defenseless animal and I have a .30-06 with a 3-9X40 scope. It's never fair.

Now by the same token, we didn't just slaughter every one we saw either. We wanted to keep them coming back. We would take 1 or 2 a year right at the house then leave them alone until the next season.

If we had a really good season at the deer lease and killed several, we wouldn't shoot one at all at the house. But if the freezer was low, you betcha we would. And when I'm finally back out in the sticks, I'll do so again.
 
Where I live the deer are so thick they are a danger to themselves and vehicular navigation on the roadways. They are so numerous the wildlife biologists are worried about disease decimating them. Nationwide, you are most likely to be killed by a deer in a car crash then to be killed by any other dangerous animal save for fellow humans. They destroy the crops of the local truck farmers who are trying to raise local veggies for our tables, and cause thousands of dollars of damage to private property where they cannot be hunted due to population density, not to mention the damage to the flora of the local park areas..., so yeah, if it's hunting season and I'm where I can legally harvest a deer, and one wanders through the yard...

BANG!

LD
 
Back when I lived in SD I considered all the local fauna "home boys" Can't tell you the number of times I told guests they couldn't shoot this or that. One of my distant neighbors was completely different, she'd shoot anything off the porch, which was her perogative since she owned the land.
 
For me it depends on the game, if either of my boys were to shoot a squirrel near my house I'd more than a little upset. But if a buck were to walk through the back yard it had better hope my oldest isn't home. I let deer walk, assuming the freezer isn't empty.

I do love the squirrels, nothing like watching them play. I wish I had more.
On a side note, I hate pine trees for the same reason.
 
I don't live where I can shoot from the house. But growing up, I never hunted from the house or in the immediate vicinity of the house or yard of any of my relatives. Shooting varmints, however, was another matter.

Hunting was done in the fields or down the road a ways.
 
My wife grew up on a farm. Somewhere between 8 and 10 her dad gave her a 22 rifle to shoot the squirrels and birds as they would eat the crops they were growing, especially the grapes they grew to make wine. The squirrels wised up to this and would scurry when she came outside. My wife was a clever little girl and then went into one of the bedrooms and opened the widow and shot them from there and got quite a few in a row. Her step mom came running into the room as it was a wee bit noisy and didn't know what was going on. The step mom could see the dead squirrels and was confused. Do I thank the child for being clever and killing the squirrels that way or scold her. She got thanked.
 
I get this. IMO, hunting has a mindset that is unique, and I am either in that mindset or I'm not. A couple years back I was filling feeders, driving the property between stands. Now, I have taken doe while driving the property because I wanted the meat. On this particular day, the largest buck I have seen on the property ran in front of my Samurai and stopped, broadside, looking at me not 75 yards out the passenger window. I raised my Marlin .30-30, and scoped him. Fat neck, nice spread, 10 point. The only problem was I wasn't "hunting", and it just did not feel right. While I was pondering he took off. I was fine with it, there was no sport in it.
 
I do love the squirrels, nothing like watching them play. I wish I had more.
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Let me bring you some! I shot over 30 squirrels in my backyard, fenced area, last year, another 50 in the two pecan trees out back, and I bet there are 100 out there this very minute. I could easily shoot 5 a day. Multiple large acorn trees, thick wooded areas, and pecan trees=squirrels.

Someone must be releasing squirrels in my area.
 
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