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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 8:53:49 GMT -5
It's a sad day for my Father in law. He's been really frustrated over the last few years with the deer raiding his garden. This is in town-LaPorte. We were there over this past weekend. So after more than a half century, he is done with the garden. Here is a shot of the same deer on 3 different occasions, Sunday alone.    This is the same deer. At times, he has up to 6 deer in his yard. They eat from the garden. Eat the shrubs. Eat his tulips. Pretty sad. Almost 87 years old and now he says, "Heck with it! I'm done! Not worth the fight anymore!" That pic of the doe by the bush was taken from the picture window where we were having coffee, 18 yards away. I did find noteworthy, the "wound scar" as you can see in the "kill zone" of her left side. And she had a bit of a gimp in her right rear hock. |
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Post by featherduster on Jun 3, 2019 10:07:31 GMT -5
URBAN ZONE!
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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 11:10:49 GMT -5
I had not really investigated this. But I wondered the same. Do you know if there is truly an urban zone or deer reduction zone and possibly what the boundaries are for Laporte? |
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Post by coolbreeze on Jun 3, 2019 11:19:03 GMT -5
I believe in Laporte county it is north of interstate 94..
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Post by deadeer on Jun 3, 2019 11:20:05 GMT -5
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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 11:26:11 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I’ll check this out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 12:41:54 GMT -5
The best way to keep deer out, but a lot of work. No deer issues.  |
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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 12:42:05 GMT -5
That's a good map and he does fall into the Urban Zone, or DRZ Corridor as I guess it is now denoted. I suppose this may have been discussed in the deer hunting section, but since I'm too lazy to search there I'll ask here: Are licenses/tags covered with a Lifetime Comprehensive Hunting & Fishing license? |
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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 12:45:02 GMT -5
Good stuff Wayne. We discussed a fence option like yours, But being the tight wadded Dutchman that he is, there is no way my F-I-L would spend a plug nickel for such a project!
But, I will say I really do like your setup!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 12:53:43 GMT -5
Good stuff Wayne. We discussed a fence option like yours, But being the tight wadded Dutchman that he is, there is no way my F-I-L would spend a plug nickel for such a project! But, I will say I really do like your setup!!! I understand 100%. I'm also a 100% dutch/Black Forest German man. It took me 25 years with smaller fences and losing every time. Funny thing: My wife and I tease each other on who is stubborn, she is Irish/German. |
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Post by deadeer on Jun 3, 2019 13:25:03 GMT -5
That's a good map and he does fall into the Urban Zone, or DRZ Corridor as I guess it is now denoted. I suppose this may have been discussed in the deer hunting section, but since I'm too lazy to search there I'll ask here: Are licenses/tags covered with a Lifetime Comprehensive Hunting & Fishing license? YES |
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Post by HighCotton on Jun 3, 2019 15:33:44 GMT -5
That's a good map and he does fall into the Urban Zone, or DRZ Corridor as I guess it is now denoted. I suppose this may have been discussed in the deer hunting section, but since I'm too lazy to search there I'll ask here: Are licenses/tags covered with a Lifetime Comprehensive Hunting & Fishing license? YES Well dang, that's good news! Now I just have to wrap my head around the thought of shooting a nice deer with the ole Wally World special Wicked Ridge and hoping not to have to blood trail beyond Pop's border!!  |
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Post by firstwd on Jun 3, 2019 17:36:51 GMT -5
I'm sure other neighbors are having the same issues. Might discuss "tracking" permission over the summer while everyone is in the middle of losing their gardens and shrubs.
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Post by Sasquatch on Jun 4, 2019 6:53:47 GMT -5
That's a shame.
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Post by steiny on Jun 4, 2019 9:27:48 GMT -5
If you don't want to spend money on a nice permanent fence like Wayne, steel tee posts and 5' high plastic construction fence works also. Be a good son in law and build your F-I-L a fence so he can get back to gardening.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 9:37:46 GMT -5
If you don't want to spend money on a nice permanent fence like Wayne, steel tee posts and 5' high plastic construction fence works also. Be a good son in law and build your F-I-L a fence so he can get back to gardening. They will jump 5 ft with ease. I've had to move from 5 up to 8 feet. Steel is better than 2 x 4's. Tried 2 x4's once. An old big buck broke it in half . To save work and cost go with 8 foot poles, 5 foot mesh, and then put heavy rope or wire at the top the poles around the garden. |
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Post by esshup on Jun 4, 2019 10:01:59 GMT -5
Electric fence is another option. I've heard of putting peanut butter on pieces of aluminum foil on the wires. Deer lick the peanut butter, get zapped and want nothing to do with the area.
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Post by steiny on Jun 6, 2019 13:10:23 GMT -5
If you don't want to spend money on a nice permanent fence like Wayne, steel tee posts and 5' high plastic construction fence works also. Be a good son in law and build your F-I-L a fence so he can get back to gardening. They will jump 5 ft with ease. I've had to move from 5 up to 8 feet. Steel is better than 2 x 4's. Tried 2 x4's once. An old big buck broke it in half . To save work and cost go with 8 foot poles, 5 foot mesh, and then put heavy rope or wire at the top the poles around the garden. The 5' plastic worked for me the first year I had problems, but I did build a permanent 6' fence the following year. 5' Fence and ropes above that level as mentioned above would work for sure. |
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Post by Russ Koon on Jun 7, 2019 19:56:13 GMT -5
My b-i-l has about a half acre garden that he built before he retired. He went with a 7 foot high fence, and had to add three strands of electric wire around the perimeter to keep the 'coons and possums out. Still has an occasional rabbit and a few crows drop in, but the depredation is minimal now.
Still has deer in the yard, and his place is 64 acres of good hunting that is out in the country and isolated, with a food plot up the lane from his house and garden a couple hundred yards.
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Post by moose1am on Jun 8, 2019 13:40:16 GMT -5
Can one legally shoot deer that are raiding a garden? If not then a tall electric fence would be the best option I guess. My dad had a 1/3 acre vegetable garden years ago but all we have to worry but back then was rabbits. They would nibble on the newly emerging plants so dad sprayed raid on the little plants to discourage the rabbits. These days we have a whole herd of deer in the area where the garden used to be. There are 7 deer that feed on the glass where the garden used to be. The soil is so fertile that the grass is greener than anywhere else in the area so the deer feed on this glass. Now we have one blueberry bush that's left from the garden and now we have a family of gray squirrels that like to climb into the blueberry bush and eat the ripe berries. I got my Gammo air rifle sighted in now and am going to knock off a few gray squirrels.
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