Back yard turkeys

[TooManyHobbies]

Who hunts their own back (or front) yards. Two hours ago, I had two jakes walk through the front yard. A few minutes ago, I gave a short series of yelps from my deck and got a quick response. My plan is to hunt the edge of my yard tomorrow morning. It's not cheating, is it?      I'm gonna do it anyway.

[Yolla Bolly]

Cheating? Nah.   But if you have neighbors, you might want to clear it with them first.  "Excuse me, Ma'am, can I go into you garden and pick up a gobbler?"

[JMR]

I have hunted many times within sight of the porch light and have seen deer and turkeys. I say go for it as long as it is legal and within your own moral limits.

[Matthew Bolton]

I have done it a few times around my house but we live on 22 acres.

[crotch horn]

Invite me over so I can better answer ya
           
I want to shoot first!

[TooManyHobbies]

OK, I walked into my woods a bit and put up a camo burlap blind. Can barely see my house or the neighbor's. I hope his last gobble was on the roost. He can't be more than two hundred yards from my blind. I'll let you know.
PS: I have four acres.

[Bill Carlsen]

Check out my post on NH turkey success. Back yard, front yard...never know when or where they will show up. Here's what we saw just about every day before the season opened. Once the hens started nesting the flocks became singletons and toms looking for hens.

 

[RUTANDSTRUT]

where im from in NJ, if you cant see a house, you're too far in the woods!

[ArrowAtomik]

Its legal here if you are 50 yards from a building.  I hunted a few days ago and lured a nice Tom from one of the neighbor's bird feeders down the street with some decoys and hen-clucks.  I have a little grass hut/blind and a ghillie suit.  At one point he stood 3 feet from my back and while letting out a nice gobble.  We spent an hour playing calling games with him all around me.  At the end, I needed two more steps for him to come into an open shot at 3 yards... and somehow he knew something was strange and headed for the woods.

I had a blast, but my favorite was when he gobbled at the school bus.

[TooManyHobbies]

No bird talk this early morning at all. Sat in my blind for an hour or so. Nothing. May try again later this morning if I have time.

[wollelybugger]

I hunt out of my back door and have great luck with Turkeys and deer. Funny part is I live just a mile away from the mall.lol.

[j_haus]

I had a buddy that I hunt with call me a couple years ago one morning and tell me about the bird he shot.  Apparently he was sitting at the kitchen table in is tighty whiteys and had a big old tom come walking down the drive way.  He grabbed his bow, opened the kitchen window and smoked him.  Then sat down and finished his Fruit Loops before they got soggy.

[joekeith]

I've shot 2 with bows from inside the house.  Call from one window, then move to another around back. When he goes around back lookin' for her, I'm by a window in between.

I've also seen 'em comin', figured where they were headin', and slipped outside to cut them off.  Had one turn and come right at me at about 10 feet.  Should've seen the look on his face.    Gotcha....

[moththerlode]

I get them here quite a bit.. don't relly like messing with them though. Would rather see them than not.

[CT Trapper]

I have never called a Tom into my yard and shot it...I have never killed a deer eating my blueberry bushes...I never killed all those other deer out back over the years...nope, never did all that    

[Friend]

Your decision. Loved to watch turkeys and deer in the back yard - sometimes not 10 yards from the deck. Have even had to stop shooting to permit deer to walk between me and the target and continued to feed not 20 yards away while I shot and retrieved my arrrows. They were quite accustomed to my presence. Was tempted once when a 150 class buck stepped in the yard.

Critters that I personally considered targets were raiding coons and ground hogs. Yotes were only seen before light and never presented an opportunity. Had bobcats twice but my wife would only scream as the bobcat attempted to catch her kitty.

[Don Stokes]

I occasionally have deer and turkeys in the yard, but they are completely wild and skedaddle if there's any noise or movement from the house. I have one ladder stand within sight of the house, and a couple of others that I can see the porch light from, through the woods. I live in the corner of my 50 acres.

[EL Mejor]

NICE FLOCK,,,

[WRV]

I turkey hunt within sight of my house and have hunted deer off the front porch in a rocking chair while recivering from foot surgery.......Randy