Shoot one or not?

[gasman]

Offer up an opportunity to a youth hunter that is just starting out or never harvested anything, maybe an elderly or disabled hunter if the area is relatively accessible for them.

Lots of ways to change someone's luck, start them off or just give them one more or one last chance...

Just a thought to consider.

    Great and honorable thought..........

 








Or let me come shoot one   

[Humptulips]

What a horrible dilema!

[Turner89]

Offer up an opportunity to a youth hunter that is just starting out or never harvested anything, maybe an elderly or disabled hunter if the area is relatively accessible for them.

Lots of ways to change someone's luck, start them off or just give them one more or one last chance...

Just a thought to consider.

  Try to find a kid......that would be fun    I wouldn't get anything out of shooting a deer out of my back yard, but would deffiantly let a kid get his first buck.
  We have been on the back padio skinning a buck, and had a spike and 2 does walk right up and sniff the buck that was hanging from the rafters. They sat at the apple tree 25ft away while we continued working on the deer.
 

[Alan K]

Personally I'd have a hard time shooting a yard deer.  Wouldn't even consider it a hunt really, more of just a bland kill. I guess if you have trouble getting it done during the season and decide you want to just fill the freezer you'd always have the option in your back pocket. 

[baldopepper]

Here's some of the boys in late July

[Ridgeratt]

Personally I'd have a hard time shooting a yard deer.  Wouldn't even consider it a hunt really, more of just a bland kill. I guess if you have trouble getting it done during the season and decide you want to just fill the freezer you'd always have the option in your back pocket. 

#1 rule don't shoot the house deer, exceptions would be a grandkids first and then after that they are hunting the mountain.

Several years ago I had a nice buck who spent all season in the front pasture, He would cross in front of the school bus and pose for the kids. Bus Driver told me to teach the deer better. One day I was fooling around the house and had a car pull up. Asked if I owned the place. Told him nope why do you ask? I would like to shoot the deer behind your house. Told him the Lady who owned the house lived in Spokane, I guess you could call her! I gave him the phone number and then told him where a phone was. he thanked me.
Off he started to call. I stopped him as he was leaving and told him I had been sleepin with her for the last 25 years and I wasn't Dumb enough to shoot it, But knock your self out.

My oldest son had a buddy of his come over one year and as they pulled down the drive there was a buck in the back pasture. This person starts scrambling for a rifle. Kid asked what you doing? I'm going to shoot that deer! He tells him I'm about 15 minutes behind them and he's not sure you can get it loaded and out of here.

With as much pressure as they get some places are just a quiet zone for them. They have food,water and cover.
Had a buck one year bed next to the transformer in the drive he could watch the front and back pasture along with the feeder and he stayed maybe warm from the heat off the box.

So I'd say if you chose find a kid! Or get a good camera.

[rtspring]

I quit seeing game animals as pretty little creatures long ago. I now see them as steaks on the hoof. Maybe that sounds strange but it is that way. Sure they are majestic and drive all of us insane as the crisp morning air is upon us.  I buy a tag to kill a deer, how , where, when doesnt matter. 

But I sure would find me a kid if I could to get them into a first time deer. The smile on their face would last you a lifetime!!!!

It will be no diffrent shooting one of them when they are bigger in say , two more years....  For what bigger antlers?   You will still see them as pets...

[bowhunterforever]

If you don't wanna kill one, I say find a youth, disabled or senior and let them have crack at one

[PolarBear]

personally I would not. But Its up to you

Unless my family needed the meat or they were damaging my trees/property, I would find very little interest in doing it.

[Jonathan_S]

You should turn them into a project this winter and next year.  Feed them and keep them around during the winter.  Get their sheds in the spring and maximize antler growth with feed.  Just to have pretty bucks to look at.

Or allow youth hunter(s) to hunt them.

[Button Nubbs]

Its not up to anyone but you. If you want to go for it, if not don't. No-one here can make that decision for you.

[pianoman9701]

I understand your dilemma. Here's what I suggest. Go to Fred Meyer or another department store. Find the Men's clothing section. Find some man pants and put them on. Then go shoot one of the deer. No need to thank me. I'm here as a free service to our waffling and wavering members! 

[h20hunter]

I really like the idea of helping out a youth, vet, disabled, seasoned.....somebody out there needs to fill a tag. Maybe a family isn't doing so well and could really use a surplus of grind and steaks....I can come up with plenty of reasons. Perfect example could be the moose thread........guy is old old old and finally gets a moose and says "maybe next year I do need to pick up a tag".....could be a perfect candidate.....only you can decide if the reasons are right for you.

[baldopepper]

I'm gonna leave them alone-I don't need the meat and I've shot many, many deer in my life.  I'd let a youth take one, but I don't think it's the proper way to introduce someone to deer hunting.  Think I'll just go down Saturday morning and try to get a couple of pictures. (Im better with a rifle than a camera though)  Interesting responses-thanks.

[deltaops]

I'm gonna leave them alone-I don't need the meat and I've shot many, many deer in my life.  I'd let a youth take one, but I don't think it's the proper way to introduce someone to deer hunting.  Think I'll just go down Saturday morning and try to get a couple of pictures. (Im better with a rifle than a camera though)  Interesting responses-thanks.

My thoughts as well,  I sat here pondering if I should ask if you would maybe let my 9yo and my GF get their first buck ever, but  I decided not to ask. I want my son to learn to hunt and teach him that things do not always come easy. Sure he would want to shoot his first buck, but maybe some other time. Right now he can be happy to shoot his first deer should we see a doe for him to shoot. My GF and I are both Vets and I am sure she would have to say no as well. She likes to get out and get the experience herself. I can just hear the convo now, she would say what is the point of shooting them when we can just go buy the meat and save money. No thrill in that! 

Now if it was my land, I might let my son shoot one, but other than that, I may open it to a Disabled vet but that would be all. I know it may sound a bit selfish, but I have been over twice as well as my GF and like many others we have had friends disabled or worse.  All in all it is your land and your choice. We thank you for even considering the thought.