Originally Posted by
ADVWannabee
I am going to go against the grain here and say congrats and great story. Of course I hunt from and around my house as well. I am the only house in a 40 acre neighborhood and hunt the fields and woods around. I hunt elsewhere as well, but I can get home and hunt the last hour of light. I haven't gotten any great bucks here, but I do get one or two for the freezer and that is mainly what I am after.
I almost shot a deer from my front door a couple years ago but decided to go out the back door and around the side of the house. I shot him in my sock feet in the rain. I got a turkey in my PJs and slippers as well. I don't sugar coat it and I don't apologize for it. Most of my deer are taken from a stand or blind, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth either.
Enjoy the deer and enjoy telling the story, you have every right too.
You are so right, and thank you.... I have limited hunting area, I will take what the land will give me. I don't shoot fawns,spikes, or 4 points. It has to be at least a 6 point... This is the first deer I have ever shot from my back yard, and I have live here for 20 years. Some of you complainers, you cant tell me if you where in my shoes you wouldn't have shot him... The biggest buck I have ever seen on the hoof, and can hunt where he is standing. I didn't have to think for very long if I was going to shoot him. I don't have my own land. I am at the mercy of 2 people to let me hunt. One is a 35 acre spot, and the other is where this buck was standing, 14 acres.... That's all I have for area to hunt. I wont hunt public land, to many people, and most of them are out of state.... To all of you that are congratulating me, I give you a very big THANK YOU..... Like I said, I have hunted these two spots for 20 years, and have never, NEVER, seen a buck this big...