Hunting deer from your house?!?

[jmiller676]

To paraphrase someone smart, once you've spent much time in combat hunting other men, hunting game for sport loses its appeal for many. To me, there is no sport in hunting most animals with a rifle. If I were so inclined and thought myself the mighty hunter, I would do it with primitive tools. I am not so inclined. I do, on occasion, purchase a license and take a deer for meat. I see no reason to pretend that it's sport. It is not. I've done it with rifles, muzzleloaders, [modern compound] bows, and handguns, and it has never been very sporting... especially since I moved here to the midwest. I grew up in the Rockies and had a bow hunt there one year that I still consider to have been sport and a true challenge. Here, it is harvesting, plain and simple. Of course, that's just my opinion.

Pick up a recurve/longbow make home made arrows. Practice instinctive shooting (zero sights) and go take a deer with it. If that isn't a thrill then deer hutning isn't for you.

 

[iChokePeople]

Pick up a recurve/longbow make home made arrows. Practice instinctive shooting (zero sights) and go take a deer with it. If that isn't a thrill then deer hutning isn't for you.

Um... That's what I said in the post you quoted -- that if I want to hunt for sport, that's exactly what I'd do. I guess I could have been more specific about what I meant by "primitive tools".

 

[jmiller676]

Um... That's what I said in the post you quoted -- that if I want to hunt for sport, that's exactly what I'd do.

I know just reiterating. And making it clear. I know a lot of people who shoot compund and snicker at the thought of a recurve taking a deer. Just wanted to make sure you know it is possbile and very rewarding.

 

[iChokePeople]

I know just reiterating. And making it clear. I know a lot of people who shoot compund and snicker at the thought of a recurve taking a deer. Just wanted to make sure you know it is possbile and very rewarding.

+1. I just don't bother hunting for sport anymore. Meat, yes. Want backstraps, buy a license, harvest a fat, sexy doe, legally, and have backstraps. Want sport, do it this way.

 

[HICKMAN]

I do. Every once in a great while I might take a shotgun...Skipped all gun season last year and hunted strictly bow.

I hope to get that good some day.

I can shoot a recurve, but still working on the deer hunting skills to make a good, clean shot.

That said, I will probably get a crossbow for next season, so my kids can hunt during archery as well.

Can't afford to buy them all bows, but I can get one crossbow they can share.

 

[ffk61]

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[buford t justice]

Never shot a deer from the house,but I once picked off a ground hog at 300 yds from my upstairs bedroom window.

 

[ralphb72]

As long as people are hitting deer with their cars, getting injured or killed because of the deer running into the road, getting their cars damaged or even totaled, then there should be open deer hunting all year round for anyone who wants to kill some of the stupid deer.

I also agree that people should be able to hunt whatever they want whenever they want and however they want on their own land.