What would you do?

**buckee** · 11-13-2002, 11:21 AM

On two of the small properties that I hunt on, I have my ground blind about 100 yards from the farm house.
Although I don't live there to have the luxury of seeing when the deer are coming by in the mornings and the evenings, It is their pattern to use the fence line as their travel route between feeding on the next 2 farms over and the bush.
Too me it is no different than setting up on any other fence line, where there is no barn or house present.
The deer that come by there are just as wild as any other. If they were tame deer, then I would have trouble going after them, because it would be too easy .
They still manage to give us the slip, whether we are 100 yrds from the barn, 400 yrds from the barn or a mile from the barn.
I guess living there may make you a bit more of an opportunist, but isn't opportunity part of hunting.
If you saw a nice buck consistantly 500 yrds from the house using a certain travel route and moved in on him. Doesn't that make you a smart hunter and an opportunist ...lol

If you were out on the prairies and saw a deer going into a small bunch of trees every day at noon and decided to set up and wait for him. Doesn't that make you an opportunist and a good hunter. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Don't mind me, I'm just blabbering [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

**MrWiggely** · 11-13-2002, 12:21 PM

Oh yeah I would take him. No question.

**Orion_70** · 11-14-2002, 01:14 AM

Shoot straight and true.. Take Him

**too_pointer** · 11-14-2002, 03:09 PM

I agree, go for it and good luck.I see nothing wrong with it all, I would in a heart beat!
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**SaskMan** · 11-15-2002, 01:28 AM

I wouldn't even hestitate. I also have deer right in my yard and my most active stand is 150 yards from my deck in the jackpines north of my house. It is in a funnel between the forest and a standing oat field and that's where I;ll be sitting tonight hoping a good buck follows one of the many does that have been sauntering by. Aren't we lucky to be able to hunt so close to home?

**Tominator** · 11-19-2002, 08:17 AM

my wife and i live on 5.5 acres. the back 3 acres is just feral field rimmed by white pines. i leave it go and try to manage that little area for wildlife. every year i shoot rabbits and pheasant out there, and every year the deer make that their home to avoid the pressure in the local woods. i wish i had a nickel for everytime i've jumped deer out of there. last year when a couple buddies and i pushed the field for pheasant i had a 130 class 10pt jump up about 30 yards off the back fence which is only about 100 yards from the house! 100 yards later a giant 6 pt jumped up from the back of the lot where they usually bed. i checked out my field saturday and jumped 2 fawns and i discovered about 6 rubs, 6 new beds, and all kinds of coco puff piles.

i don't know about your area, but deer on my property are there because they're not pressured, they know it's safe. i'm putting up a tripod stand next year, and i'm shooting the first deer that tries to bed in my field. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

i say shoot him. good luck.