I hunt my backyard all the time! Heck! My permanant treestand is only 100 yards from my back door. The other day, my wife let the dogs out the back door and spooked 7 does who where in the back yard eating the hay bales I was using as a stop for my bow target! Read my post 'STEPSON GOT ONE' It's not cheating. It's the benefit of being a landowner. It's the reason I bought this farm. We don't farm. I converted all the crop fields into CRP fields. Now all we have is pastures and cedar thickets. Oh yeah, and a 4 acre farm pond in the front yard. And all the landowners around me have the cropfields. Deer go eat there and come back here to bed. I say, as long as there is no danger of injuring somone with a wayward shot (richocet off of a branch or something) then enjoy your right as a landowner. And take plenty of pics 'cause we want to see! LOL Good Luck and keep us posted.

KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.

Edited by - budbowhunter on 12/09/2002 10:50:42