Ahhhh yeah, I remember this dilemma from years ago. Extensive study took place partnering with TWRA, City Citizens etc. etc. only to dismiss the options presented. I think they landed on adding more Deer crossing signs...
Too many deer
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Wooden Arrow
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some places allow limited gun hunts in populated areas, but all shooting must be done from elevated stands for safety reasons. suppressors on the rifles make it even quieter, as do sub-sonic ammunition. got a few places here where land owners refuse to allow bowhunters access, and they have 8' chainlink fences around their gardens. whatever...
44 mag suppressed
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I agree. That's the way I hunt narrow urban green belts. Elevated stands for safety and a quiet 12 ga with handloaded subsonic wadcutter slugs that always knocks them off their feet . They go down immediately in their tracks. They go absolutely nowhere.
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Load em up and drop them off in Cherokee National Forest.
I have killed several deer in sub divisions in the past 5 years (Without looking at my records I'm pretty sure 20 is about right). I call it killing because it isn't hunting. At least where I'm doing it. It has been some of the most stressful hunting I have ever done. All bow obviously, so shots have to be perfect, the deer MUST fall on homeowners property, and must be removed off the property before gutting. And ALL of this without detection from the "Karens". Nothing illegal, but I just don't have the time, or desire to deal with upset people because someone killed Bambi.
Funny story...couple years ago I made a double lung shot on a huge azalea eater. She ran around the side yard headed for the front. I sat there about 15 minutes until I heard a back up alarm and noticed yellow lights flashing and reflecting off the foliage toward the direction I last saw her.
Very quickly I climbed down my tree, Took of my outer camo shell, revealing "yard man" clothes, and headed towards the front.
As I peeked around the corner I saw 2 city employees loading up my doe in the back of a dump truck.
I quickly hopped into my truck and pulled up alongside the 2 workers as they began to leave.
I said "excuse me guys, I actually saw that doe get hit and know it is fresh, would they mind if I took it off their hand and donated it to Tennessee Hunters for the Hungry?"
The fellas actually loaded it on my truck for me.
In all honesty...I did see it get hit. By my broadhead!
Nice guys. ( I think they actually knew somehow?)
BY THE WAY, she dressed 140!
Funny story...couple years ago I made a double lung shot on a huge azalea eater. She ran around the side yard headed for the front. I sat there about 15 minutes until I heard a back up alarm and noticed yellow lights flashing and reflecting off the foliage toward the direction I last saw her.
Very quickly I climbed down my tree, Took of my outer camo shell, revealing "yard man" clothes, and headed towards the front.
As I peeked around the corner I saw 2 city employees loading up my doe in the back of a dump truck.
I quickly hopped into my truck and pulled up alongside the 2 workers as they began to leave.
I said "excuse me guys, I actually saw that doe get hit and know it is fresh, would they mind if I took it off their hand and donated it to Tennessee Hunters for the Hungry?"
The fellas actually loaded it on my truck for me.
In all honesty...I did see it get hit. By my broadhead!
Nice guys. ( I think they actually knew somehow?)
BY THE WAY, she dressed 140!
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Some urban adjacent hunting areas work very well. Easy access, known deer trails, and permanent stands. Other areas - not so much. I once hunted the side lots of someone that wanted "all the deer killed" because they were eating all her expensive shrubbery. She had placed electrical fence around her flowers and sprayed them with soap but they still came up on their back patio at night and ate everything. We even got a TWRA depredation (?) permit that allowed me to shoot anything day or night and use bait. I took a couple of deer (daytime/archery) there but it was a royal pain. 1) You can forget using a gun anywhere near where people are living after dark or they will go ballistic. It was archery only. 2) She would walk her yappy dog within 30 yards of my stand despite knowing I was there. 3) The two guys that lived next door had secretly hunted that property before I started hunting there and hated that I was there so they put a ground blind up within 20 yards of one of the stands that I put up. And obviously shot into the property when I was not there. They also used corn so that was pointless. The last straw was when I squeezed off an arrow that connected with a small buck and as I was going to wait quietly for a few minutes to retrieve the deer that had run along the property line a little out of sight a guy next door started yelling repeatedly "Did you get one?" and disappeared. When I went to retrieve the deer it was already gone. So I gave up trying to hunt there. Some things just aren't worth the trouble.
