Been going about it all wrong...

[tcop7]

I've been chasing deer all season long when they will just come to me in my back yard....

They come in every night to feed under our apple trees around the same time every night. Did this last winter too. There was 15 of them tonight, Love to watch em.



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[Thermals]

I have the same problem

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[bowhunter]

do you live in an area of the county in which you can shoot a doe and put it in the freezer if so i would have been shooting as many as legally allowed per day just for deer meat.

[tcop7]

do you live in an area of the county in which you can shoot a doe and put it in the freezer if so i would have been shooting as many as legally allowed per day just for deer meat.

This post was meant for humor, as I would never kill a deer like that, just wouldn't seem right to me. I respect them too much and I prefer to put the work in and actually go out and kill a deer in its natural habitat and give them a chance. Anyone could sit in their house and shoot a deer out of their back window that comes to an apple tree every day. It takes a lot more skill to go out and do it in the woods. Also, I feel that hunters these days are all about quantity over quality, everyone around me is all about "tagging out". The more deer you kill this year, the less deer there will be next year. So I try to do my part at keeping numbers up because I enjoy hunting and want to enjoy it my whole life. I killed a buck and a doe this year in a 5 deer county. Had no intention of killing anymore than that.

[Wlog]

That's awesome! You should sit in your shed and get some close ups.

[Stanley]

Very cool.

[Kraftd]

Cool! Always fun to just watch them. My backyard is a 500 acre forest preserve, same deal for me as I have two big white oaks right on my lot line. This year they're coming in real late and its just does, but last year with the heavy snow, they were coming in daylight and some bucks as well.



Got him out in the prairie with a doe during the rut too. I belly crawled within about 5 yards for this pic, then realized his lady was behind me another 5 yards and decided I didn't want to get between that since he had the upper hand with weaponry at the moment.

[tcop7]

Those are really cool pictures Kraftd!

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[Kraftd]

Thanks. I really like the second one from the context of bedding and how good at hiding they are. Like I said, I was well inside of 20 feet and knew where he was and still kind of got surprised by how close he was. Could easily walk by him if you didn't know. Look how close his antlers match the prairie grass!

[Bigb]

The good ones always know when they are safe. I watched this guy for three years. I think he was only 3.5 years old here. I watched him on camera and in person until he was 6.5 when we met his maker due to fight he lost to a cadillac

[Dewey]

I have the same problem up in northern WI. The cabin I occasionaly rent up there has 20+ deer coming in to feed with many of them being mature bucks. Can't hunt them but it sure is a kick in the pants after experiencing extremely tough hunting the past 5 years on public land in the area.

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