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Would you hunt a 2 acre property?
- Thread starter jjroberts1977
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@Weldabeast has great advice. What you really need though is pop-up fencing. Slip an arrow through that big boy and then immediately hit the button and viola! That's sucker is going nowhere!
You tell me I can hunt your backyard, but it’s only the size of a Prius, I’ll be there if the deer are!
Bro I’d hunt a cul-de-sac from a telephone pole if there were deer there.
have a neighborhood BBQ and leave your hunting equipment out. If someone gets up and leaves when the conversation starts you'll know you have to call the Game Commission to get it off their property.
Might also consider using a string tracker to know exactly where the recovery needs to be made from. Everyone hates to recover or rather not recover a deer. But it would be really bad to not recover one in an urban environment based on potential antihunting sentiment.
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The only problem with that would be if the deer runs through some yards with the string attached and tangled all through the yards and with my luck all the yards it would run through would be anti-hunters yards with picket signs andd all!!!! Just my luck LOL!!! But for normal people probably wouldn't be a bad idea!
Thank you to everyone for taking time to comment. Lots of good advice! Appreciated!
I would talk to the neighbors. Just as an introduction, maybe give them my card in case they need anything. Let them know that I will be bow hunting. They may express that they have safety concerns or that they are pro or anti hunting. Maybe offer them a sample of sausage. Maybe ask for their phone numbers if comfortable. After you talk to them, you should able to decide. This is what I did a few years ago, and we are all good.
Simply talk to the neighbors and feel them out. I think you can make it happen. Just do it the right way so maybe if they don't have the same views as you they will allow it versus you just going for it and starting a neighborly war.
Only if i FIRST secured permission from my neighbors to track wounded deer onto their property. The odds of them dying on your two acres are extremely low as you well know so i think it’s fair to assume the majority of deer will die on your neighbors property.
In WI anyways, it’s illegal to track wounded deer onto private property without permission even if they were shot legally. I’ve been denied access half a dozen times and lost nice deer as a result in similar circumstances as yours, NEVER AGAIN!
So unless you know you’re covered first for retrieval it’s irresponsible to hunt two acres imo as ive learned the hard way.
If you get permission from everyone then id 100% hunt 2 acres.
In WI anyways, it’s illegal to track wounded deer onto private property without permission even if they were shot legally. I’ve been denied access half a dozen times and lost nice deer as a result in similar circumstances as yours, NEVER AGAIN!
So unless you know you’re covered first for retrieval it’s irresponsible to hunt two acres imo as ive learned the hard way.
If you get permission from everyone then id 100% hunt 2 acres.
how does that work? Do you think that the person denying permission wants the deer for themselves? Or hates hunting? I would not want a rotting deer on my property and if someone asked to get a shot deer off mine I would be inclined to say "yes".
Just curious -- thx!
Almost all the properties I hunt are in similar neighborhoods with 2-3 acres. When I first starting hunting them, I was concerned about their neighbors but after a few years and meeting people when loading up to go out or coming back in, they all want the deer gone bc of the havoc they cause. You may end up with a lot more properties to hunt!
No idea.
Non Hunters would be my assumption who have no idea about honoring the animals we hunt. So they would rather let an animal go to waste than allow an evil hunter to put the animal to good use.
I don’t think many actual hunters would deny access. I know i wouldn’t i’d help a guy go find it actually.
When I've been in that situation, even after I'd asked permission ahead of time, I STILL called the landowner and asked if it was ok. Reason being, maybe the wife said it was OK but never mentioned it to her husband, or vice versa. So you're just in the middle of a domestic squabble. And I also confirm every year if it's OK, even if nothing has changed.
The last thing I would do is tell everyone in the neighborhood I am hunting. The last thing you want to do is have some anti hunter clanking pots and pans or calling the cops because they think they can stop it. The cops will come and screw up your hunt when called. Stealth is your friend, get in quietly, take high percentage shots. IF and only IF you have to track a deer, do you ask for permission from neighbors to track on their land. Do you go and meet everyone that has property around your land in the country. You are trespassing on their property if you track a deer there too.