Opinion

[dale2242]

I own 10 acres in the country.
We have deer, squirrels, quail and turkeys. a lot of turkeys.
I have never hunted from a blind.
Our county here in SW Oregon is 80%-85% federal land, so we have plenty of places to hunt.
I have walked many a mile in to the back country stalking game.
I am now 77 years old so those days are gone.
We now drive the logging roads looking for an easy stalk.
We are now meat hunters as opposed to sport hunters.
We don`t shoot the quail, squirrels or turkeys but the deer may be in trouble the last day or two of the season if we don't find one in the hills.

[Hickory]

And the hand of God reached down and blessed the few who were worthy in his sight!

You lucky dog��

[sharps4590]

Ambushing any critter from a tree or blind isn't hunting, IMO. I'm not degrading either of those methods, I've done both but those days are probably as much over as my days of pussyfooting through the woods. To me, that was hunting and I killed a lot of deer that way also. These days I'm as likely to be sitting under a wool blanket on my deck or just watching out my basement shop door. I have no illusions that to my mind I'm hunting but if a legal deer comes by, and they do, it won't bother me in the least to put venison in the freezer.

[ChristopherO]

As long as I can be mobile on my feet I desire to hunt away from houses, barns, man made blinds and stands. I want to be in the woods or the edges of fields and enjoy the effort involved in pursuing the game. I've shot nuisance coyotes from the house in the past, but that wasn't hunting, that was pest control. My best memories are after the long walk and exersion. Yes, I have hunted with country suburbs close by, as it is common more and more. A hunt is a hunt. But, other than for the meat, and I am a meat hunter, I love the experience and memories made in the hunt. If I had hundreds or thousands of acres to walk out the back door to hunt in, and am still able, it would be further back into the uninhabited areas that would find me. For those who have not experienced this I encourage them to seek it out. Not slighting making of meat by any means, but the love of the hunt is still pretty strong with this one. MHO

[CoryT]

Likely by a sportsman's definition it isn’t hunting. Most likely would be better defined as harvesting. I have no issues with harvesting. Food is food, and as long as its legal and not wasted, better for ya. Sometimes a mans soul just needs to commune with the outdoors though, and that is when a hunt shines.

[waksupi]

The past couple years I've shot my deer from the cabin. Too crippled up to do it any other way. During the rut, I see the most deer between 10 am and 1pm.

[Jedman]

I have taken 2 from my house, the first was a doe with a crossbow, I needed the meat that year.
Last year during our gun season my wife looked outdoors and there was a buck eating where we feed birds.
It had a bad front leg where it was shot or broken about 3" above its hoof. I opened a window and shot at the buck and the bullet hit the top hand rail on our porch and I defiantly missed the deer. His downfall was he only trotted of 40 yards and a minute later came right back so I made sure I had the rifle a little higher and shot him.
With a scope I couldn't see the handrail and if he was smarter that would have been his free pass.

Jedman

[gon2shoot]

I don't shoot many critters anymore, it's hard to consider something the grandkids have named as lunch.

[baragasam]

Don't make extra work for your self.
Plenty of other people are glad to do that for ya.

Your deer blind is on par with this guy's,,,,,,,,,,

That's awesome haha

[Texas by God]

Keeping one eye on the television and one eye looking out the window for deer is harder than it sounds.

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[OutHuntn84]

Hunting is all about what you make it!!! Sounds like a great spot for the morning hunt for sure! The guys that give you grief probably hunt on top of a corn feeder anyways lol.

[MT Gianni]

I don't shoot many critters anymore, it's hard to consider something the grandkids have named as lunch.

I am on a dead end road next to a State section of 320 acres that has another 320 just N of it. I have had antelope, deer, turkeys and Hungarian partridge in the yard along with cottontail and snowshoe rabbits. I haven't yet shot anything edible from the house though fox and coyote aren't in that category.
We have beef, pork, fish and chicken in the freezer but I couldn't face telling my granddaughter we didn't have any whitetail this year, so I shot one in the river bottoms. It was at a friends field, 35 yard shot on a 3 pt whitetail [8 pt eastern].

[ole_270]

I live on 12 acres and also own an uninhabited 80 about 12 miles away. From my seat at the computer I can see my back fence that abuts miles of wooded hill pastures here at home. I've killed more than one deer from the back deck. The 80 is heavily wooded creek bottom with about 22 acres tillable, this year in beans. My son, son in law and I have taken a buck and 3 does from an area about the size of a house in the corner of those beans this year. We're talking about putting up a shooting house there to help the younger two grandkids get started hunting next year.

[Iowa Fox]

I have the luck of living in the middle of a wildlife management .
I was told I'm not really hunting since instead of getting up at 03:00, sneaking through the woods, climbing into a blind, and then waiting for deer while freezing my butt
off I sleep till 06:30, get up, make a cup of coffee and the go watch out my basement window. is there any real difference aside from my comfort level ?? Your opinion ??

BTW to me the venison tastes the same either way

We are lucky that we can both hunt this way. My wife keeps a big pile of homemade cookies for me to go along with that coffee. Actually the venison tastes better because they aren't all pumped up on adenilyn and you don't have to drag then thru the mud and dirt.

[fcvan]

From my porch or back door I have seen: rabbit, red fox, squirrel, coyote, mule deer, and the Rocky Mountains. Although I did not see the following, my wife has sent me pictures she had taken of pronghorn, big horn, and a sow with 2 cubs. Oh, and a doe dropped twins in the yard next door. My wife didn't take a picture of the mountain lion on the sun porch, I think she was changing her shorts at the time.

I will never shoot anything from the front or back doors as I live in a town of over 400,000 people. The mule deer got so thick in town they authorized a special archery only hunt, limited to proven archers. I think the limit was 50 tags. No worries, 30 miles from the house the mule deer and elk are thick as thieves. My neighbor's nephew bagged a bull elk some time ago on private property land-locked by BLM, and we have been granted access. My wife asked if she had an elk gun. I told her 'not yet babe.' Gotta love a country girl . . . from Orange County, CA.