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Seek One’s dilemma

DayDay said:
Only applies to public lands and not just restricted from shooting. This is printed in the TWRA Hunting Guide:
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And since I not only have her permission, but also her blessings, I guess I'm ok.
Plus, I'm 200 yds from her house.
Don't know how I could be charged with reckless endangerment. No witness to state which way I was shooting. Shooting down at a 45° angle or greater, not much chance of a stray round going anywhere.
But...we can play " WHAT IF" all day.
 
agelessssone said:
And since I not only have her permission, but also her blessings, I guess I'm ok.
Plus, I'm 200 yds from her house.
Don't know how I could be charged with reckless endangerment. No witness to state which way I was shooting. Shooting down at a 45° angle or greater, not much chance of a stray round going anywhere.
But...we can play " WHAT IF" all day.
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I've never seen anything guaranteed that they film. They probably face more setbacks and difficulties and definitely put in more time and west more boots out than 99% of the "hunters" that belittle and mock them.
 
bowhunterfanatic said:
Not entirely correct. He was killing solid deer before YT but they didn't really start killing the giants until filming started.

And if you think the deer he is hunting are just as wild as a deer in the middle of let's say LBL, I've got some oceanfront property to sell you. Do they know they're being hunted? Sure they do. But they can't hide can't like a deer in a normal hunting scenario would.
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Deer are deer. My grandpa could drive within 30 yards on his tractor of a huge buck we used to see on his farm. Yet when I tried to get near him when he was feeding in the backfield, he would leave the field before I got anywhere near him.
Those city deer have way more places to hide because they use land that most deer wouldn't want to stay in. Not to mention they don't have permission to hunt alot of it.
They face way more variables than the average hunter. No sense in hating on a fellow hunter. It just makes you look petty and foolish.
 
GreeneGriz said:
Deer are deer. My grandpa could drive within 30 yards on his tractor of a huge buck we used to see on his farm. Yet when I tried to get near him when he was feeding in the backfield, he would leave the field before I got anywhere near him.
Those city deer have way more places to hide because they use land that most deer wouldn't want to stay in. Not to mention they don't have permission to hunt alot of it.
They face way more variables than the average hunter. No sense in hating on a fellow hunter. It just makes you look petty and foolish.
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They have more places to hide??? 😂😂. Maybe if they get smart enough to start hanging out in people's garages. If you take a 500 acre neighborhood there might be 25 acres worth of cover in the whole neighborhood. If you or I bump a big buck off our property, we can't just go hang cameras on our neighbor to try and find him. They just ride down the next street over until they find the buck again.

You are 100% correct about the variables they face. But almost none of those variables have anything to do with actual hunting and everything to do with city folks.

And we will just have to agree to disagree on the looking foolish part. Me thinks anyone who watches those videos and thinks what they are doing is a true representation of hunting is foolish. If that makes me petty, I'm fine with that.
 
A Seeker can't just hunt anywhere. Seekers have to find access with some more acreage around it.

If anyone is really interested, here is a link that should show Braves stadium and the Chattahoochee River which is a national park area along much of the area. If you follow the river past Dunwoody area into Sandy Springs and Alpharetta towards Lake Lanier, you can see the hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of wooded acres where many of these deer have lived. There are tons of homes with multiple acre lots along the river area. One of their access spots is over 50 acres which they mentioned in an early video. Zoom out and you will find tons of big pockets of land.

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A lot of this land is owned by investors and builders. Lee Ellis' uncle was a player in the development of Buckhead area so maybe they have some good contacts, or at least can name drop. Some of the other guys work in the construction industry. The key is access to private land. Atlanta exploded during last 30 years and continues to build on any land available. Look at the new construction in this photo. That habitat is now gone, but it was there during the past 10 years.

There are also pockets of habitat connected by utility right of ways, stream habitat, etc. A lot of Atlanta is very hilly with ravines.

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agelessssone said:
I hunt suburban deer just up the street from me.
The owner lady wants me to kill them all just because of scenes like this at her house.
I'll take two of the largest bodied bucks ( horns be damned) I see, for our freezer, and then kill three or four does for neighbors that like venison but don't hunt.
Cities have no say in hunting, hunting is a solely regulated function of the state.
If an officer cited you for hunting in the city limits, you can have it thrown out by citing the appropriate chapter/verse of the law.
In our city of Goodlettsville, there are no laws against discharging a weapon in the city limits. Hunting regs state you can't shoot within 100 yds of a dwelling when hunting.
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Cities can pass an ordinance banning discharging a weapon.
Local ordinance can trump state
 
Chiflyguy said:
Cities can pass an ordinance banning discharging a weapon.
Local ordinance can trump state
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I agree with that statement about cities banning the discharge of a weapon in the city limits.
They just cannot try to make rules/laws pertaining to hunting.
Such as, "no hunting within city limits".
No their jurisdiction. Only state can do that.
 
agelessssone said:
I agree with that statement about cities banning the discharge of a weapon in the city limits.
They just cannot try to make rules/laws pertaining to hunting.
Such as, "no hunting within city limits".
No their jurisdiction. Only state can do that.
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Police chief of South Fulton told me not only could I not bowhunt in the city limits, if I did and he caught me he would arrest me.
He went on to say, "You can't even shoot a BB gun in the city limits."

So there's that.
 
RUGER said:
Police chief of South Fulton told me not only could I not bowhunt in the city limits, if I did and he caught me he would arrest me.
He went on to say, "You can't even shoot a BB gun in the city limits."

So there's that.
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Sounds like he needs to charge someone and get sued...about the bowhunting, not the discharge of a firearm.
 
BTW, our city has no law banning the discharge of firearms in the city limits.
Too many large farms in city limits where people recreationally shoot and hunt.
A friend has a 24 acre farm right dead in town, behind Post Office, grocery store, hotels.
When we want to shoot, we call the PD and tell them we will be shooting. They ask us to notify them when we are done.
Sometime, but not often, an officer will come down to see what's going on, but it's rare.
 
GreeneGriz said:
I've never seen anything guaranteed that they film. They probably face more setbacks and difficulties and definitely put in more time and west more boots out than 99% of the "hunters" that belittle and mock them.
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Interesting take, what setbacks and difficulties would a seek one urban hunter face over one hunting public land in Tn?
 

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