On 1/15/2015 8:47 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
On 1/15/2015 7:30 AM, Frank wrote:
On 1/11/2015 2:20 PM, Ecnerwal wrote:
In article ,
Derald wrote:

Frank wrote:

Just wish I saw as many deer when I hunt them as I do in my yard
where I
can't.
Seems to me bows exist for such situations....?

Check _all_ the details of your local game laws. Various places I
have lived and been aware of the laws, there was a big honking
exception for "on your own property."

Whether that is true at this time for the place you live, or not, is
something _you_ need to find out. And, as Derald says, you might
also need a bow to keep from having the neighbors freak out. The
squeamish ones might freak out anyway, but you're not forcing them
to look...

I might get away with it but while state law prohibits discharge of a
deadly weapon within 50 yards of an occupied dwelling the county
requires 200 yards. I know a guy that was arrested, taken off in
handcuffs, paid a $100 fine and lost his bow just for target
practicing in his back yard. I don't need that hassle.
Makes me glad I live in Texas, we do archery practice in a teeny
backyard with a six foot board fence around it. I do a little shooting
practice with my air rifle too. Homeowners Association rules say no
firearm discharges but air rifles are fine if used properly. My
property backs up on a retention pond (a requirement in this area)
and it's about a hundred yards to the houses behind us.

Our big problem is stray cats that want to poop in our raised bed
gardens, the Rat Terrier that lives with us takes care of those pretty
quick. She thinks that anything that comes in her territory is a rat.

I live in rural Arkansas , and have a 25 yard rifle/pistol range (for
sight-in mostly) about 50 feet from my front door ... I can see my deer
blind from the kitchen window , and have no qualms at all about sticking the
.22 out the living room window to pop a squirrel . The dog objects though ,
she hates gunfire or any loud noise .

Ours doesn't like loud or shrill noises either. I grew up in rural SE
Texas and, after marrying, set up housekeeping on the same property for
sixteen years. Shot squirrels and coons in the front yard, had a pond
for fishing, and was just a quarter mile from over a thousand acres of
wilderness that I had written permission to hunt and fish on from the
age of eleven.

After that we moved two or three times in Texas due to job promotions
and changes and then overseas to the Middle East for several years. Came
back in 1986 and settled in rural Louisiana for 24 years, another
paradise for hunting and fishing. In 2012 we moved to the Houston, TX
area and everywhere you look there's a huge subdivision and Posted
signs. We're here because we are now fully retired and this area is
where our seventeen descendants live and we don't have to drive three
hours one way to see our great grands and the others. I fish in local
water holes and the odd stream or two but I would move back to rural
Louisiana or rural East Texas in a heart beat. That's if SWMBO would
allow me to.