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Post by vectrix on Dec 3, 2009 14:57:35 GMT -5
While returning from a hunt in 2005 after hunting hard for months and not scoring I glance into a small corn field and see a mature (big) 8pt herding a doe with a small buck in tow. They leave the field and go behind some houses and out buildings basically 50yds behind a yellow barn. I go to the house and knock on the door, a woman answers and I explain theres a big buck behind her barn and I want to shoot it. Suprisingly she said ok at which point I walk down her drive and onto a small deck attached to the barn and peak around the corner. I ended up dropping that deer right where I stood, I was still happy and excited. To me if it's legal then ya gotta get em some way.
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Post by js2397 on Dec 3, 2009 15:18:41 GMT -5
While returning from a hunt in 2005 after hunting hard for months and not scoring I glance into a small corn field and see a mature (big) 8pt herding a doe with a small buck in tow. They leave the field and go behind some houses and out buildings basically 50yds behind a yellow barn. I go to the house and knock on the door, a woman answers and I explain theres a big buck behind her barn and I want to shoot it. Suprisingly she said ok at which point I walk down her drive and onto a small deck attached to the barn and peak around the corner. I ended up dropping that deer right where I stood, I was still happy and excited. To me if it's legal then ya gotta get em some way. That sounds like an exciting hunt. To me that is a much more interesting story than some one sitting in stand all day. I bet when you were sneaking around the barn your heart was about to pound out of your chest, I know mine would have been. One afternoon in 2005 I was at my parents after work picking up my kids. I looked out the back window and I saw a huge eight pointer walking down a gas line on the edge of his property. I grabbed my gun and ran across the field in my shirt and tie. I got out in front of the deer but he turned around and went the other way. The next day I was up in the woods after him when I heard a shot. My dad went to pick up my sister from basketball and when he got home the same buck was chasing a doe in the field behind his house. He grabbed his gun and had to keep going from one side of his house to the other to get in position. Finally the deer headed right behind his house and he leaned his gun across his hottub and shot the buck about 75 yards from his back door. I was disappointed that I didn't get him but I was happy for my dad.  The big one is the one he shot off the porch and the smaller one is the buck he got at Charlestown state park that same year. |
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Post by lugnutz on Dec 3, 2009 15:36:15 GMT -5
Excellent stories!
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Post by vectrix on Dec 3, 2009 17:23:55 GMT -5
Yea I was fired up, actually went back to her door and thanked her. She acted suprised that I was back so soon. That 8 on the trailer from your dads yard looks alot like the deer in my story But mine had tiny brows, 1.5in on each side.
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Post by johnc911 on Dec 3, 2009 17:54:21 GMT -5
I cannot believe we are having this discusion on a HUNTING site. Wow i just read this thread. WTH cant believe things im reading |
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 3, 2009 19:11:01 GMT -5
I cannot believe we are having this discusion on a HUNTING site. Wow i just read this thread. WTH cant believe things im reading I found it kind of interesting. Different strokes for different folks.. Me? I would not shoot a deer off my back deck (and sometimes I could) but if it is legal I do not blame someone else for MAKING MEAT.It isn't hunting though.. |
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Post by turkeyscout on Dec 3, 2009 20:36:02 GMT -5
well Woody ,the name of the topic is "Hunting from the porch" i guess the only thing i can say is" some hunters need to be educated on how to safely harvest a deer"!!!!!!!.....turkey scout
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 4, 2009 7:20:27 GMT -5
well Woody ,the name of the topic is "Hunting from the porch" i guess the only thing i can say is" some hunters need to be educated on how to safely harvest a deer"!!!!!!!.....turkey scout That's true regardless of a back porch being involved or not..Actually there are times I would feel safer hunting off the back porch than in the woods with 50 pumpkin heads throwing lead in every direction around me. |
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Post by vectrix on Dec 4, 2009 8:12:16 GMT -5
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Post by mbogo on Dec 5, 2009 13:30:45 GMT -5
If you intend to kill a deer while "hunting" then you have to hunt where the deer are going to be. If that is a yard, then so be it. After a couple of hunts they are not going to be there during daylight hours anymore just like any other place. IMO, it is the same as leaving a "deer sanctuary" on your property then deciding to hunt that sanctuary at the end of the season.
I guess by the same reasoning, many of you wouldn't shoot a deer on the way to or from your treestand during legal shooting hours. Afterall, you are either not hunting yet because you haven't made it to your stand in the woods or else you are finished because you have left it.
The thing I find disconcerting about this thread is that some of you are only too eager to spout your opinion on what is or is not hunting like it is some undeniable fact. There is a certain other site where you expect to see that kind of thing routinely from a large number of posters. I doubt you all fully understand the level of arrogance and contempt that this implies, at least I hope you didn't.
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Post by UrbanArcher82 on Dec 5, 2009 13:44:33 GMT -5
Ill take um how i can get um. For example this year in september(urban deer zone) my dad and i were on our way to the truck when a button buck pops up and my dad simply says "cody shoot that deer" i hurried up and knocked a arrow and shot. He traveled a short way and tipped over, I was just as excited as when i take one from my stand. I have no problem hunting off the porch in the end its still a deer and it all taste the same lol
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 5, 2009 20:00:36 GMT -5
If you intend to kill a deer while "hunting" then you have to hunt where the deer are going to be. If that is a yard, then so be it. After a couple of hunts they are not going to be there during daylight hours anymore just like any other place. IMO, it is the same as leaving a "deer sanctuary" on your property then deciding to hunt that sanctuary at the end of the season. I guess by the same reasoning, many of you wouldn't shoot a deer on the way to or from your treestand during legal shooting hours. Afterall, you are either not hunting yet because you haven't made it to your stand in the woods or else you are finished because you have left it. The thing I find disconcerting about this thread is that some of you are only too eager to spout your opinion on what is or is not hunting like it is some undeniable fact. There is a certain other site where you expect to see that kind of thing routinely from a large number of posters. I doubt you all fully understand the level of arrogance and contempt that this implies, at least I hope you didn't. I agree 110%.. |
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Post by Decatur on Dec 5, 2009 22:39:02 GMT -5
If you intend to kill a deer while "hunting" then you have to hunt where the deer are going to be. If that is a yard, then so be it. After a couple of hunts they are not going to be there during daylight hours anymore just like any other place. IMO, it is the same as leaving a "deer sanctuary" on your property then deciding to hunt that sanctuary at the end of the season. I guess by the same reasoning, many of you wouldn't shoot a deer on the way to or from your treestand during legal shooting hours. Afterall, you are either not hunting yet because you haven't made it to your stand in the woods or else you are finished because you have left it. The thing I find disconcerting about this thread is that some of you are only too eager to spout your opinion on what is or is not hunting like it is some undeniable fact. There is a certain other site where you expect to see that kind of thing routinely from a large number of posters. I doubt you all fully understand the level of arrogance and contempt that this implies, at least I hope you didn't. I agree 110%..  ! |
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Post by bsutravis on Dec 6, 2009 5:05:46 GMT -5
If you walk out on the porch and shoot a deer you are killing a deer, not hunting the deer.
It's legal, it's ethical, it's 100% ok to do....... but it's not hunting. No condemnation for those who do it or have done it, but it's not something I'd do.
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 6, 2009 6:34:23 GMT -5
I don't think anyone plans to go out and hunt off the porch...but if I have a bonus doe tag and I come home from work and see a big doe out back along the woods milling about....if I can sneak inside get the shotgun and drop her from the back patio and fill another bonus tag...and shotgun is in season,I'm doing it...Oppourtunity knocks...and I need meat for the freezer....100% ethical IMO....We hunt for meat right...? A trophy buck hunt is totally different deal there....but I also can't say if a 160 inch buck was standing within shotgun range from the house on my property...can't say I wouldn't drop him..you still got to make the shot...it's not a given..
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Dec 7, 2009 0:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 8, 2009 12:10:41 GMT -5
Looks like the shows over TagTeamHunter...  |
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Post by turkeyscout on Dec 8, 2009 18:10:13 GMT -5
..... i was surprise to see so many hunters that were in favor of 'HUNTING FROM THE PORCH"!..................turkey scout
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Post by duff on Dec 8, 2009 20:20:06 GMT -5
Hunting is a personal decision. It's all about what you want to do and how you want to do it. No one should be offended when I say I wouldn't shoot a deer from my porch, just the same as I am not offended by those who choose to shoot deer from their porch and call it hunting.
I do hunt in my back yard but never been one to shoot an animal just because I see it walking through my property. Got plenty of good friends that do just that. Take it easy guys.
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Post by tickman1961 on Dec 9, 2009 10:09:50 GMT -5
Personal choice, it would be legal to kill the animal from the porch, that fact alone should get the approval of everyone here. Too many times we place our ethics on others despite the fact the game is killed legally. And yes, what hunters do is "kill" wether you want to use the term or not. Everyone gets their panties in a wad when someone is being PC, yet many will use the term "harvest" instead of "kill".  |
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