hunting suburban deer?

[Chris Shelton]

Interesting to see the different results with urban hunting.  And I figured out the problem.  With urban hunting, you either have it or you dont!  And my buddy doesnt.  I tried to film him fill the freezer with a healty doe all season, without luck.  Probably the curse of the camera. It is agreat property, it is his backyard.  But there are alot of deer, but in that 8 acres of land there are probably 20 different trails they can use, and it wasnt till late in the season when they decided to actually funnel into one of the trails.  It is tought there, and there seems to be only a 40 min window in the morning and evening that they cross through.  

See the problem is next door is a farm, about 140 acres, that is set up for hunting, he has governement buffer instalments with soybeans and corn layered going up to a hill, at least that is what it looks like on google earth.  And that is the direction they are always hunting.  We know the guy over there hunts, because his sisters boyfreind is freinds with him, so he gives us a heads up when the neighbor is gona kill one of the bucks.  My freind is trying to manage the herd, let the bucks grow up, and populate, but the neighbor shoots them when they grow decent antlers, dont blame him but it is tough.  

Anyway to make a long story short.  I would rather hunt public land in Western Maryland where there is a 1 to 5 ratio and a terrible herd than his place!

[HcSmitty]

now ive never hunted any urban areas so im just spoutin off.  But who cares how wild and wiley they are or how tame they are.  Heck if they are tame then thats their mistake and my good fortune.  Reckon they ought to have acted like deer instead of pigeons.

[Chris Shelton]

HcSmitty, I hear ya.  But then again I hear the others too.  We are all about the challenge as well as puttin some meat in the ice box.  But I happened to know quite a few guys that would rather wackem and fill the freezer and THEN challenge themselves, lol.

[SkottyBoy]

if it looks like a deer...WHACK!!!

[Chris Shelton]

my best freind was a bow tech in his earlier years, and they once had a guy check in a goat!  He seriously thought it was a deer!             That was just over the bridge in WV!

[Drumstick63]

I spend some time hunting urban deer not too far from my home and these deer are crafty and spooky - pure whitetail and always on the alert.  Over the past 8 or 10 years, my son and I have killed two or three total there but each year the older bucks somehow evade us.  I even hunted this one particular buck an entire season and hate to admit how many times he made a fool out of me.  It was almost laughable.

[hayslope]

Suburban deer are basically all I've hunted the last two years.  Since it is suburbia, the entire county is bowhunting only.

The deer are still creatures of habit and require your hunting skills to be honed, just like any other deer.

However, I admit to watching them do very stranges things, which can obviously be attributed to them being used to living in close quarters with man.  I have watched them walk right into people's yards while someone is mowing or doing yard work.  Yet, just allow a wind shift to make your stand location choice not a wise one and you will see them react like any deep woods deer.

I'm sure I'll get sick of the close proximity to houses at some point, but for the time being, the locations are close and the hunting has been productive.  I still dread the day when one of them gives up the ghost on one of the neigbor's lawns!  Should make for an interesting conversation after I knock on their door!