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Would you hunt a 2 acre property?

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jjroberts1977

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I live in a fairly large wooded neighborhood and everyone has about 2 acres of land. My property is mostly wooded and I have 5 nice size buck that come in and out on a regular basis. I can legally archery hunt my property since the distance to any building is over the 50 yards required by PA law. The challenge would be getting them to die on my property and not cross over into a neighbors. I have a stand for my son and a preset platform up for practicing that we could set up in. They're located fairly close to the property line with the thought that I could maybe catch them early coming onto my property hoping that after a shot they would head deeper onto my property. I haven't lived here long, so don't know a lot of the neighbors well enough to know their views on hunting. So, wondering what everyone's opinion is. Would you hunt it?
 
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I live in a fairly large wooded neighborhood and everyone has about 2 acres of land. My property is mostly wooded and I have 5 nice size buck that come in and out on a regular basis. I can legally archery hunt my property since the distance to any building is over the 50 yards required by PA law. The challenge would be getting them to die on my property and not cross over into a neighbors. I have a stand for my son and a preset platform up for practicing that we could set up in. They're located fairly close to the property line with the thought that I could maybe catch them early coming onto my property hoping that after a shot they would head deeper onto my property. I haven't lived here long, so don't know a lot of the neighbors well enough to know their views on hunting. So, wondering what everyone's opinion is. Would you hunt it?
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Yea why not? Its your land.
just let the neighbors know ask them permission to retrieve an animal. Tell them you will sign a no liability contract.
I believe honesty will take you a long way
Compared to sneaking around on eggshells hoping a deer stays and dies on your property
The worse thing that can happen is them saying no.
And hell yea look st the monsters seek one kill.
Most of the early stuff was i believe big time urban stuff.
I think one of them killed a couple booners over 200 inch behind a guys house while the guy was blowing leaves.
 
Time to make friends with the neighbors it sounds like. I wouldn't trust a deer to deer on 2 acres, 5 acres maybe depending on lay out and cover, but not 2. So I would not shoot a deer without having permission to retrieve fromb your neighbors

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In my opinion find the neighbor you know the best, or the one you think wouldn’t care if you hunted and ask them first. Then ask if they think any other neighbors would have an issue with it. They can’t stop you from hunting your property but hopefully the info you get from that one neighbor will let you know who to avoid talking to about it and worse case the deer dies on that persons property you will have to have a plan to drag it back onto yours quickly without being noticed.

quick story... I lived down in Pittsburgh when I went to college, in a wooded area surrounded by housing plans and a few houses around where I hunted. I asked one neighbor when I moved in who said sure but didn’t know what they other neighbors thought so I just hunted his and mine, about 7 acres. Shot one that ran and tucked in under another neighbors porch and died.... I left my bow and knocked on the door expecting an earful from the huge ritzy house owner. An old lady, must have been 90 answered. I said “mam, I shot a deer that ended up under your back porch and it died. She said... you know, I like looking at my flowers more than those damn deer. She said I could go get it, the hose was around the corner to clean the blood off around the house and to leave a backstrap in the fridge in the garage for her.
 
The only reason not to hunt a property of any size is if there is no sign, and even then white tails are so thick in the eastern half of the country you might as well try anyway.
 
Yes but as others have said I'd talk to as many neighbors as I could. Your worry shouldn't be someone who is anti hunting, because deer in areas like that do destroy a lot of landscaping, so most people won't care. Your worry is the guy who hunts it too, or even worse, the guy who lets another guy hunt it. On lots that small they can get a surprising amount of pressure that you don't realize. All it takes is one of your neighbors mentioning to a friend at church that they have a booner in their backyard and everyone and their brother will be throwing up a pop up tent to sit with their crossbow. Also, as others have said I believe it's good etiquette to not leave a gut pile in the woods on lots that small.
 
I would if I had retrieval permission from neighbors and the deer were nice enough to warrant the effort of trying to obtain it.

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You are hunting your property so go for it! Getting permission for tracking and retrieval, should be easier than asking permission to actual hunt their property. While we can never predict what the animal will do after the shot, always good to ensure you do things right on your end - a very sharp broadhead placed in the right spot, should have the animal expire "relatively" quickly, but just in case always nice to have permission to track and retrieve.
 
Yes I would hunt....I killed my very first deer on 3 acres in a residential setting. IMO I would build some high foc heavy hitters and sharp fixed broadheads. The 2 I've killed with "adult" arrows both ran less than 20yds and expired. Just my opinion.....if it was me I would also go over and be friendly before season and just tell them. I'm gonna be hunting and I'll do my best, but heads up, I may need to ask u in the future for permission. If 1 says they don't like that then u could build some thick brush piles or some other obstructions that deer hopefully won't try to go thru maybe....not sure what u got to work with
 
I think that your neighbor will let you retrieve the deer. If not, the deer will decompose and coyotes and other scavengers will come and feast.

Just make sure you shot it on your property and you should be fine.

Good luck!!
 
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