Well this past Saturday I had some running around to do with my wife .
Got back home around 1:30 pm .
We have been seeing a big doe with two smaller ones coming into our yard and I was planning on sitting just inside the thick brush and trees with my ghillie suit .
About 2:25pm I'm all ready to get out there and start the wait .
Now those deer have been showing up around 4:30pm or there abouts .
They didn't get the notice .
I look out the front window as I'm about to go out the door ......
Guess who's standing about 15 yards from the door .    

Deer are good at that. I decided to kick around the woods for grouse last week with the old scatter gun. Pull off the dirt road and loading my gun and a buck walks by my car 20 yards away. I was making all that noise and he didn't have a clue.

Sounds like you need to put shoot through screens on your doors and windows.    

Graps, did they blow you the raspberries when you walked out the door?

Probably should have yer woman put the screens away for the winter.....
Tim

Well, you made my day.  Busted before leaving your house.  Ha

I agree with meathead !    

Yard pets are usually off limits    

Well Ron , my wife last year had two tomato plants that she started in her sunroom and they were about three feet tall .
When the weather warmed up , she planted them in her garden .
The next day they were about three inches tall and she told me that it was open season on deer in the yard .
They dropped a few notches on the adorable scale .

So it's really a matter of protecting yer property....i say oil up the door hinges and hang the bow on the curtain rod
Tim

Hard to beat a tomato sandwich,  best protect the plants.  One thing you can count on is not being able to count on a deers pattern especially in the South!!

Maybe you should have posted a sign   DONT EAT THE TOMATO PLANTS    

QuoteOriginally posted by Ron LaClair:
Yard pets are usually off limits      

Yes but yard pets with big antlers are in big trouble.

 

I remember amny years ago when I was having my pole barn built the floor wasnt finished so the doors were open. I left to go hunting and when I get nback my wife shows me a pic of a little 6 pt lying i  the center of the barn. Said her and the 2 girls walked up to the front doors and watched it. Never spooked him, he just got up and walked past them into the woods.   hOW long ago was tis, thr only cell phones we had we bag phones.

My friend Dave Paxton used to have deer in his yard a lot out in the boonies where he lived. I asked him why he didn't hang a stand and hunt them.  His reply was, "Those are yard deer--you can't shoot yard deer, you have to GO hunting."

Yep, sounds like Dave.        

I feed squirrels all winter on my deck but when I want a squirrel to eat I grab the bow or the .22 (depends how hungry I am for a squirrel dinner) and head for the tall timber. Town or yard critters are semi tame, not fair chase IMO

When you're as gimpy as me , the butcher shop is fair case .    

As a fat old wise comedian says.. That there is funny stuff..    
Real life is better than fiction..

Those deer are fair game if they've been in the garden. We have a standing rule. If it eats our food we will eat it.