It is a situation where you are perfectly legal to take the shot (end of your porch, gate of your lease, etc. However, it's a deer you haven't scouted and you didn't even know existed and the situation in which you harvest this animal isn't actually hunting.
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First day of rifle season and you encounter a 170”+ deer.
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First of all, to see 170 inch deer around here would be a real surprise
Carlos
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Right- it would take 2 bucks combined to add up to 170" and you can only shoot 1 per day.
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backyardtndeer
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I hunt my small farm, where I walk out the door and walk to my stands. The very best bucks we have ever gotten pics of or seen may have made it to 150 gross. So yes, I would kill it.
Tweeter
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I'd shoot it, I do enjoy the drama playing out and the buck fever, but rifle opener is usually my last weekend in the woods since duck season opens the following weekend.
Pretty often you hunt your butt off and never see a deer. Sometimes you catch a break. Most hunters never catch a 170" break in their entire life. So yes kill it and be thankful for the gift.
I need a third option for shooting and missing it. But yes I'd try to kill that sucker!
I'd shoot it and put the meat in the freezer just like all of the other deer I've killed.
quackaholic
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My biggest deer, personally, I never had any pics of. At least that I was aware of. I pulled the card after I killed him and he was there bedded in front of my camera 3 days before. Most people kill deer they had zero history with. Mainly due to them showing up during the rut. I chose not to even run a camera this season, so I will have zero history with any of the deer I see except for 1 buck I may or may not have past pics of. And that to me is hunting. The very essence of woodsmanship and setting up according to the terrain and sign. That's exactly what I used to do on my hunts out of state. Boot leather is hunting. Planting food plots and setting up cameras and waiting for those deer to return is deer farming. Not that I don't believe that it doesn't take lots of effort, it does. And I respect people who choose that. So shooting a deer from the gate on my hunting land. Absolutely.
My hunting cabin is about 75 yards from one of my stands. And honestly it's the best or one of the best stands to see deer out of. So yes, I'm shooting if I look out and I can see it.
Sure it's hunting! That buck could have been 3 miles from there 10 hours earlier and be 3 miles away in another 5 hours. They roam.
fairchaser
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Without any other facts, of course you kill it if you are a deer hunter. That's a one in a million buck!
Boll Weevil
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Is this a trick question?
Definitely and it sure doesnt have to be a 170 lol
Savage
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So I deer hunt to kill deer- so yes, I would kill it. And be thankful. Basically did that on a 164" gross deer.
I'd probably swerve in my truck to kill it
deerhunter10
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Kill a booner in tennessee? Or not shoot one because you didn't know it existed? Or because you aren't in a stand? I hunt to the stand. The 270 would sing. I'd be as proud as can be and tell all my buddies about how lucky I am.
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BSK
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Would I shoot it from my porch? No, that's not hunting. Would I kill it while hunting near my house/cabin? Absolutely. Two of the best bucks I've ever killed from my place were killed from a stand so close to our cabin I can almost see in the windows.
swampbadger
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Not only would I shoot it, I'd empty the rifle into it and would keep pulling the trigger until it went click on empty…just to make sure it was DRT.
