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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:30:17 AM EST
You pull out your 15 year old cross bow, that you have not shot in 5 years. Shoot it 5 times to confirm it works and is zeroed with the new bolts you just bought. Then get done your work from home job, and walk 40 yards to the tree stand in the front yard. Where your close enough to still have wifi from the house, yet you still get a 35 yard shot a decent doe.
BTW a mora knife kicked ass for field dressing.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:32:42 AM EST
[#1]
As long as it's legal, yeah, its hunting. There is no requirement to trek some distance into the wilderness up hill both ways lugging everything you can carry. I hunt about 70 yards from the house most deer seasons.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:35:57 AM EST
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Well, I have read peoples hunting stories of the recently released from a pen, 'wild' game eating from a feeder and the 'hunter' shoots from inside a structure with a roof, a heater, and a padded chair.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:36:59 AM EST
[#3]
Work smarter not harder
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:38:23 AM EST
[#4]
Here was the view from the stand and looking back to the house. Yes its the front yard.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:38:40 AM EST
[#5]
Part of the perks of living away from city life!
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:39:13 AM EST
[#6]
It’s not a hunt so much as a harvest.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:39:20 AM EST
[#7]
That would be "harvesting". Completely legitimate and likely completely legal. Not really the same skill set or demands as hunting, but you don't need to be the great white hunter who lives in the woods to put meat on the table.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:41:17 AM EST
[#8]
Hunting, harvesting, potatoe, potato. I left a couple of acres of my property unlogged, natural forest, I've taken a deer no more than 100 feet from my house more than once.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:55:26 AM EST
[#9]
According to DNR - yes it is
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:55:58 AM EST
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted:As long as it's legal, yeah, its hunting. So, as long as the King gets his money, you'll call it hunting? 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 11:58:16 AM EST
[#11]
Hunting is really just going where the game are, killing one and taking it home.
If the game happen to live in your backyard I see no issue there. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:06:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So, as long as the King gets his money, you'll call it hunting? No license required to hunt my own land here. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:11:28 PM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So, as long as the King gets his money, you'll call it hunting? We got one. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:12:26 PM EST
[#14]
I've only killed a deer by stalking once. Everything else walked in front of my spot.
But, you have to know the right place to sit in the woods. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:17:32 PM EST
[#15]
Thats not hunting, that is finding
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:18:09 PM EST
[#16]
Is it really hunting if it involves a deer?
That is the real question. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:18:39 PM EST
[#17]
Tasty covid vittles you got there now.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:19:01 PM EST
[#18]
Tell me about it, I can hardly bring myself to do it anymore.
I go out and broadcast 2 bags of corn all over the pasture and they still come steal corn out of the feeder, in the front yard LOL  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:19:19 PM EST
[#19]
The only thing I don't consider hunting is baiting. Everything else is good in my book
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:19:32 PM EST
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Thats not hunting, that is finding Isn't all hunting pretty much going where the animal is likely to be and waiting for it to show up? |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:19:52 PM EST
[#21]
If a caveman hit a deer in the head with a rock when it walked into his cave, would that have been hunting or gathering?
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:22:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So, as long as the King gets his money, you'll call it hunting? No license required to hunt my own land here. The longer I ponder it, the better Ohio sounds. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:23:09 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s not a hunt so much as a harvest. This, and there isn't anything wrong with that. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:24:20 PM EST
[#24]
Yes it’s hunting. And my son is getting a Mora knife today to use for the same thing.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:25:19 PM EST
[#25]
Same I dont need a license to hunt my own property. But I do have a feeder out there but the deer was not under the feeder, it was 50 yards away.
I do like the term harvest in this situation, but I have done the true hunting. Ie out scouting and finding the deer, I used to do that a lot in my younger days when I did not have the ability to go to the front yard. I have shot 2 deer from the front porch and one from the back door during rifle season, that is just cheating, but I do it for the meat. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:25:42 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is it really hunting if it involves a deer? That is the real question. Lol true. The buck my son shot last year just stood there and looked at us and waited for the bullet. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:26:57 PM EST
[#27]
OP and I think alike. That's exactly how I shot a pair of eight pointers last season. From my kids treehouse in the back yard. While surfing arfcom.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:29:09 PM EST
[#28]
Works for me.
It's more "hunting" than a high fence farm where you pay for a rack. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:30:34 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It’s not a hunt so much as a harvest. +1 |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:35:40 PM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Here was the view from the stand and looking back to the house. Yes its the front yard. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/497353/stand_jpg-2113438.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/497353/front_stand_jpg-2113437.JPG My best hunting spot in all of the 200 acres is right behind my house. I could throw a baseball and hit the house easy. Now i can't see the house because it's blocked by a big pine so that helps. Enclosed, elevated, heater, comfy office chair. I've got enough hours logged freezing my ass off sitting on a frozen stump in the middle of State land for days on end to justify this comfy "hunting".  .Now, since I really feel like stirring some shit I will say that NO what you did is NOT hunting. You used a crossbow during bow season. That's cheating. (i have a crossbow )
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:37:21 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Work smarter not harder Exactly |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:38:06 PM EST
[#32]
I know a guy who shoots hogs out his living room window. He's got holes in the screen even lol. He also doesn't have central AC and lives in very rural Florida.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:39:51 PM EST
[#33]
At least you walked. Enjoy the venison.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:42:26 PM EST
[#34]
I think there is a vast difference between east and west. Go tramping through the woods here and the deer will be long gone.
Out west, you may have to go some distance just to see one. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:43:22 PM EST
[#35]
As long as you are not shooting them from the house and claiming that the house is just an oversized blind it is all good.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:43:32 PM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, I have read peoples hunting stories of the recently released from a pen, 'wild' game eating from a feeder and the 'hunter' shoots from inside a structure with a roof, a heater, and a padded chair. I was sitting in front of a blue flame that was off, on a padded hi back chair, in my man cave, looking out the window. I didn't hunt though, as it is too warm, and I need to buy a license. I did load a few hundred 20 gauge though 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:43:38 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know a guy who shoots hogs out his living room window. He's got holes in the screen even lol. He also doesn't have central AC and lives in very rural Florida. I used to shoot rabbits out my back window with a 22 when I lived way out in the country. Day and night. I didn’t consider it hunting but they tasted the same. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:44:01 PM EST
[#38]
Sport is a relative concept and can be a component of hunting. You do you is my philosophy.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:44:29 PM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As long as it's legal, yeah, its hunting. There is no requirement to trek some distance into the wilderness up hill both ways lugging everything you can carry. I hunt about 70 yards from the house most deer seasons. Everybody has their own preferred way of hunting, for their own very personal reasons. Everybody gets something different out of it, and what they're doing reflects that. I'm only ever annoyed, when a sanctimonious asshole declares from on high that his preferred way of doing it is the only way, and the way you're doing it is an affront to Jesus, Mom, and apple pie. It's obnoxious. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:45:35 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tell me about it, I can hardly bring myself to do it anymore. I go out and broadcast 2 bags of corn all over the pasture and they still come steal corn out of the feeder, in the front yard LOL https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/384690/CBF2545B-5EE3-44CB-B1D7-384D3DF12DA7_png-2113502.JPG Shooting deer over bait is not hunting. I call it harvesting. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 12:46:57 PM EST
[#41]
I shoot them off of my front porch.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:25:39 PM EST
[#42]
If it'd legal then yes.
Did you still have your PJ's on? |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:26:51 PM EST
[#43]
If it is legal and puts food in my freezer, it's hunting.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:30:23 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If it'd legal then yes. Did you still have your PJ's on? Not this time. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:30:48 PM EST
[#45]
+1 Harvesting, +1 Morakniv
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:30:56 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, I have read peoples hunting stories of the recently released from a pen, 'wild' game eating from a feeder and the 'hunter' shoots from inside a structure with a roof, a heater, and a padded chair. Wtf is wrong with having a roof, heater, and padded chair? I’m not a savage. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:31:46 PM EST
[#47]
I’ve shot deer from the porch more than once. You can call it what you want, but it’s meat in the freezer.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:33:06 PM EST
[#48]
That stand looks it be about 4 feet off the ground...
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:34:21 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've only killed a deer by stalking once. Everything else walked in front of my spot. But, you have to know the right place to sit in the woods. After getting several from a stand, I'll never do a drive hunt again. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 1:39:19 PM EST
[#50]
Nobody would think twice about filling their freezer with pork or chicken crammed into confinement barns day and night. Honestly almost any way you care to do it, even baiting, is way more ethical than that. Healthier for you too I'm sure. I guess if you sit on your back porch and shoot over bait it may not be "hunting" exactly, but it doesn't bother me that much if you only take your share. So yeah, I'd call what you did hunting, and surely wouldn't feel bad about it for a second if you eat what you shot.
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