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Post by featherduster on Dec 1, 2009 17:52:25 GMT -5
When I built my home 9 years ago I had a Conservation officer friend of mine stop by from time to time and compare notes because he was also building a house at the same time.One night he stopped by as I was installing my kitchen window and I made the comment that this was going to be my tree stand next fall. That following season I shot my deer on opening day 10 min after shooting time started from a spare bedroom window.When I saw him again I told him about my deer hunt, he stated "and I suppose you had blaze orange on" I said you bet I did when I walked out of the house to tag my buck.
Since that time I remarried and at the edge of my woods I built a nice wooden yard barn that has 2 windows in one corner.During deer season I lay down a carpet, sit on a bar stool and sometimes I even use a heater. I don't hunt for a trophy but I have killed a deer a year some times does and sometimes some decent bucks.My wife is a wonderful cook and we both enjoy the meat.We have a marsh and several ponds on our property and we manage our land for wildlife so when I kill the 1 deer a year we want neither of us feel bad about doing it.
Also we have learned never to plant pine trees unless you want the ugliest trees you ever saw.
We have planted approx. 35 trees and there is not a one that the deer have not ruined.
So go ahead and shoot a deer from your porch, that's why you chose to live in the country!
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Post by Decatur on Dec 1, 2009 18:00:31 GMT -5
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Post by vectrix on Dec 1, 2009 18:01:00 GMT -5
I could kill deer off the porch everyday, But that is not for me. I Know most people do not look at it the same but I feel it is the same as road hunting and shooting out the truck window. But if I had someone that was to old or unable to to hunt from the woods I would gladly let them hunt from my porch. I pass up many deer in the woods as I enjoy the hunt not just the kill and numbers. Does 40 count as old to you? I guess I'm not really unable but got a heck of a beer belly and wind easily, can I come over...lol |
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Post by Decatur on Dec 1, 2009 18:05:29 GMT -5
I'm right there with you Vectrix! ;d
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Dec 1, 2009 18:13:16 GMT -5
Hmmm ... I may just pop (with my air rifle) a few rabbits running around my yard .. nah Suburbanite ... I'm for sure get the cops called on me.
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 1, 2009 18:27:40 GMT -5
If you're hunting for meat why would you care about the method of harvest as long as it's legal...If I'm trophy hunting for a big buck, then yeah I wouldn't get much satisfaction out of shooting a trophy buck that I didn;t have to hunt for...but as for doe tags...I've shot a few of those walking the woodline in my backyard..doesn;t bother me in the least as I'm filling the freezer and deer meat is deer meat....I have also watched many deer walk through the backyard and never thought of harvesting them...depends if I need the meat or not...if I need the meat I'm filling a tag...common sense to me.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 1, 2009 20:26:03 GMT -5
I took one in the field just beyond my yard with a muzzleloader several years back. Tasted just as good as the ones that I have shot in the woods.
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Post by jajwrigh on Dec 1, 2009 21:46:12 GMT -5
Perhaps I should have mentioned that they nearly destroyed 100 white pines that I planted last year and they have begun mowing them down again. I worked too hard and spent too much money to allow the deer to view my landscape as their "chef salad."
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Dec 2, 2009 7:07:02 GMT -5
I think the choice here isn't a matter of what's right or wrong. It's just how you feel about it. I don't object to it, I just won't do it.
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Post by kdog8173 on Dec 2, 2009 7:13:05 GMT -5
why wait..if there on your property,why do u have to wait till season..i thought u could shoot them anytime
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Post by featherduster on Dec 2, 2009 7:13:01 GMT -5
I should clarify a comment I made regarding the deer rubbing my pine trees. When I built my home I moved in on them and I knew that when I planted those trees this damage would probably happen. I do not hunt the deer to control a problem I hunt them because I enjoy the hunt and the meat.The deer are never going to become a problem.
TIP: to protect your trees from deer rubbing we save our used up bars of hand soap. We take old socks and nylons put a bar of this used soap in them and tie them to the trees about 4 foot off the ground. the deer will leave that tree alone.
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Post by oldhoyt on Dec 2, 2009 7:29:22 GMT -5
I don't object to it either. I just don't consider it hunting.
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Post by dbd870 on Dec 2, 2009 7:35:10 GMT -5
why wait..if there on your property,why do u have to wait till season..i thought u could shoot them anytime Unless you have a depredation permit landowners must follow the season reg like everyone else. |
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Post by turkeyscout on Dec 2, 2009 8:03:31 GMT -5
boy, i hate to be the bad guy here, but shooting deer off a porch is not real deer hunting ,and i repeat "not real deer hunting"..i mentor young folks in hunting and fishing and trust me this kind of shooting from a porch is not a good way to teach our young folks...i can't believe that a adult would do that and i can't believe what i'm reading on this forum and i hope its a joke......heres a story that i witness: somedays i take a three mile walk to 8 th street and back sometimes i see deer, i pass this corn field and theres 3 deer feeding , boy thats nice ,i'll go to the corner and i hope there there when i get back,and they were ,and one more, a nice buck ,i'm standing in the road watching them and this guy comes out with a gun on his wooded deck and shoots the buck, i for one do not like this at all , i get home and my neighbor is coming out of his house and says"my son in law just shot a buck, i said i know"" i just seen the whole situations", and left it alone , but that guy lost all creditablity of being a deer hunter and sportman in my book!!!!being a long time hunter and sportsman, i do not like anybody ruining the sport i love!!!!!! come on man!!!!!!!!!!.................just my two cents...................turkey scout
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Post by throbak on Dec 2, 2009 8:50:29 GMT -5
I live 8/10 of a mile off the rd. I own both sides of rd to a house that sits on 125 acres I hunted every day of gun and over 30 times archery In MZL season if I see one from the porch on my lane "'off the county rd."I MIGHT BE A REDNECK signed (DISCOURAGED ) for the first time in 30 yrs deer hunting
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 2, 2009 8:54:05 GMT -5
boy, i hate to be the bad guy here, but shooting deer off a porch is not real deer hunting ,and i repeat "not real deer hunting"..i mentor young folks in hunting and fishing and trust me this kind of shooting from a porch is not a good way to teach our young folks...i can't believe that a adult would do that and i can't believe what i'm reading on this forum and i hope its a joke......heres a story that i witness: somedays i take a three mile walk to 8 th street and back sometimes i see deer, i pass this corn field and theres 3 deer feeding , boy thats nice ,i'll go to the corner and i hope there there when i get back,and they were ,and one more, a nice buck ,i'm standing in the road watching them and this guy comes out with a gun on his wooded deck and shoots the buck, i for one do not like this at all , i get home and my neighbor is coming out of his house and says"my son in law just shot a buck, i said i know"" i just seen the whole situations", and left it alone , but that guy lost all creditablity of being a deer hunter and sportman in my book!!!!being a long time hunter and sportsman, i do not like anybody ruining the sport i love!!!!!! come on man!!!!!!!!!!.................just my two cents...................turkey scout Shooting one off a porch is just making meat...Has nothing to do with hunting. |
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Post by raporter on Dec 2, 2009 9:36:35 GMT -5
boy, i hate to be the bad guy here, but shooting deer off a porch is not real deer hunting ,and i repeat "not real deer hunting"..i mentor young folks in hunting and fishing and trust me this kind of shooting from a porch is not a good way to teach our young folks...i can't believe that a adult would do that and i can't believe what i'm reading on this forum and i hope its a joke......heres a story that i witness: somedays i take a three mile walk to 8 th street and back sometimes i see deer, i pass this corn field and theres 3 deer feeding , boy thats nice ,i'll go to the corner and i hope there there when i get back,and they were ,and one more, a nice buck ,i'm standing in the road watching them and this guy comes out with a gun on his wooded deck and shoots the buck, i for one do not like this at all , i get home and my neighbor is coming out of his house and says"my son in law just shot a buck, i said i know"" i just seen the whole situations", and left it alone , but that guy lost all creditablity of being a deer hunter and sportman in my book!!!!being a long time hunter and sportsman, i do not like anybody ruining the sport i love!!!!!! come on man!!!!!!!!!!.................just my two cents...................turkey scout Shooting one off a porch is just making meat...Has nothing to do with hunting. Jim, Woody you know I agree with you. What is our sport coming to? |
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Post by tn270 on Dec 2, 2009 10:41:43 GMT -5
I could kill deer off the porch everyday, But that is not for me. I Know most people do not look at it the same but I feel it is the same as road hunting and shooting out the truck window. But if I had someone that was to old or unable to to hunt from the woods I would gladly let them hunt from my porch. I pass up many deer in the woods as I enjoy the hunt not just the kill and numbers. Does 40 count as old to you? I guess I'm not really unable but got a heck of a beer belly and wind easily, can I come over...lol You KIDS today what are we going to do with you  lol |
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Post by freedomhunter on Dec 2, 2009 10:47:10 GMT -5
if you got deer worth hunting in your back yard, set up a blind or ladder stand and crawl out of the bed and hunt, then you aren't being a lazy and actually hunting
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Post by racktracker on Dec 2, 2009 11:04:38 GMT -5
Shooting one off a porch is just making meat...Has nothing to do with hunting. Jim, Woody you know I agree with you. What is our sport coming to? Nothing wrong with "making meat". |
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