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

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I was talking to someone who has hunted a lot and lives on a big piece of land. He hunts but won't shoot the ones near the home. They are more like extended pets. A mile down the road and the animals and fair game. How about you?

As for me, I live on a quarter acre so no chance to hunt. I think if I lived on a big piece of land, I would leave the non destructive animals alone near the house.
 
My mom wont let me shoot anything but crows (i am 16 so i still live with my parents)
 
I buy hay and feed the elk and deer and moose in the harsh late winter months, feed them in my yard and fields, don't bother or shoot them near the house during hunting season, as I feel that would be taking advantage of their being habituated to food and safety, just my personal opinion

We had several deer winter within 50 yards of the house most of the winter,

Christmas Day there was about a dozen deer visit and feed on hay within 20 feet of the living room window, the kids loved it,,,
 

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I shot a gobbler (while in my underwear) that was in my yard years ago during spring turkey season. Trust me, it wasn't very satisfying. There's more to hunting than just killing something. And in my book, calling in a turkey, while actually hunting in the woods, is one of the most exciting things you can do.

I'll never do that again!

Laphroaig
 
Well, this is just my opinion here in MN.
For me, hunting is a sport and therefore does have a fairness aspect. I wouldn't take a deer at my bird feeder that visits every day. Now that same deer under my deerstand, yes I would.

The laws in your state define the legal taking of animals. If you do not follow those rules, you are poaching.

I would not look bad upon someone taking game in a legal manner. Especially if that is part of their needed food supply. I agree with Lap above that yard hunting would not be the same as in the deep woods.
 
We've had the chance to shoot some big gobblers out the back door during turkey season before. We always would put our camo on and try to call them back to the woods.
 
I live in an apartment. I feel like shooting anything in the parking lot would be frowned upon and result in me having to find other living arrangements....


Secretly though, deep down, I dream of a huge alligator moving into one of the ponds and eating a college coed neighbor's cat, leaving the ruggedly handsome paramedic student (played by yours truly ) with no option but to "put it down" :D.... It being the gator, not the deceased feline

........ What were we talking about again?
 
At my home in the Country I do, because I enjoy watching them too much.

Except for coons, porkies and red squirrels.
 
I have deers and antelopes around, as well as scads of bunnies. I leave them alone, and really like seeing them. The bunnies and my dog have an agreement to keep each other fit and healthy, so they stage mock chases whenever the dog is out of the fenced part of the yard. They both seem to enjoy it, and the dog isnt very good at chatching them.

I feed birds in the yard also, and really enjoy them.

Skunks and rattlensakes get the "terminate with extreme prejudice" treatment. Bull snakes are welcome any time, so long as they dont hang around too long and annoy the dog. She barks at them and wont get near them. They get taken to the edge of the place if they hang around the house more than a day.

I did shoot a deer in my neighbors yard once though. Sure was easy using his wheelbarrow to get it to my truck. Was a nice fat doe that ate quite well. The neighbors get annoyed at the deer when they eat their hay stack for their horses and get in their garden.
 
Game coming to your yard is a huge blessing that needs not be taken for granted. My parents live on a dead end road with an abnormally steep hill at the end of the road by the creek. We rarely have ice that makes the hill dangerous but each year that creek floods. Sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for several days. They have not had to do it yet, but once when a tornado knocked out power and their deep freeze went rancid, and the flood lingered Dad told me if he didn't get out to get food in the next 24 hours the critters in the yard might start being the critters on the grill. Army reserves put humvees in the creek and carried supplies for folks before dad resorted to grilling thumper or bambi. So because of all this, I no longer will shoot edible critters in close proximity to the house. It's a food reserve on the hoof.
 
kayak-man said:
I live in an apartment. I feel like shooting anything in the parking lot would be frowned upon and result in me having to find other living arrangements....


Secretly though, deep down, I dream of a huge alligator moving into one of the ponds and eating a college coed neighbor's cat, leaving the ruggedly handsome paramedic student (played by yours truly ) with no option but to "put it down" :D.... It being the gator, not the deceased feline

........ What were we talking about again?
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Entirely too well thought out. Good luck.
http://www.google.com/search?q=inflatable+alligator+pool+toy&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=dyA8VYe8K4aogwSLlIGoDA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=360&bih=615 better get the jump on it before she moves out.
 
I have a few nice muleys in my yard during the rut every year. I have a resident herd of about 25 deer all year long. The bucks are usually forks and 3 points with an occasional 4x4 during the summer and fall, but I have a couple of bombers in November! I have quail, a squirrel or two, fox, even a lion that wanders by every so often. Haven't seen any bear but the neighbors have. I couldn't shoot any of them if I tried, my wife would skin me and tack me to the barn door. I love having them around.
 
It's a food reserve on the hoof.
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That's good thinking. In the summer, we have mama turkeys and babies walking through the yard like they have no fear. I've also had at least a dozen jakes hanging around on the front lawn. It would be easy enough to pop one in the head with a .22, but I've never done it. I would prefer to go down into the woods and hunt them the way it's supposed to be done.

We also have to wait for deer to cross the driveway before we can leave. Same thing, it never crosses my mind to shoot one of them. If we were hard up for meat though, they are there.

The only time we hunt anything close to the house is during dove season. We are overrun with Asian Collareds. Last opening day, about 20 hunters put 235 doves in the pot, and we didn't put a dent in them. But it was a lot of fun, and they sure tasted good. :)
 
Getting to eat wild game doesn't necessarily have to be "fair chase".

When in my yard, depending on what's planted, they're likely to be considered vermin.
I've not ever killed a deer in my back yard, but that's only because the legal opportunity hasn't presented itself.(they only seem to come in at night)
 
I am up here in NW Wisconsin at our cabin. I really do like all the critters coming into the yard. The season is always open on pests. Red squirrels build nests in my snowmobile and fill every nook and cranny with acorns. We do not get along and sometimes they suffer a fatal case of lead poisoning........

I guess they are " food on the hoof ".

Kayak-man - you have quite the imagination, I hope you are a writer. You have great potential.
 
Different answer, I hunt to eat. No "sport" involved for me. I will take the first legal, game animal I come across depending on the season. I will check for teets during doe/cow-legal hunts but aside from that, I am trying to fill the freezer with minimal effort. So, short answer, if I opened thhe door and a legal critter was standing there, DRT and pass me a steak.
 
I had a covey of quail that would come when I called, and chirp around eating hen scratch I dropped between my feet as I sat in a chair.

However, that same covey at fifty or more yards from the house were as spooky as if I'd never fed them before. If they saw me out away from the house, they'd boogie for elsewhere.

So, not fair to shoot them near the house. On out in the pasture? Whole different deal.

If I were purely a meat hunter, I might shoot a doe in the yard--but I wouldn't call it hunting; not at all.
 
I live pretty close to the center of town ( small tho it is... ) and am pretty certain the neighbors and LEO's would not see the humor in my shooting a squirrel out of the tree, so they are safe from me.

Fact is, even if I lived out in the country, I would be hesitant to shoot something in my front yard and call it "hunting", legal or not
 
Shooting an animal off the front or back porch is hardly fair chase.
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Sitting on my deck, sitting in a treestand, same fields, same deer.
Where's the difference?

I can look out my window right now and see the field where I and my wife have killed herds of deer over the last 10 years
 
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