Not everybody can hunt behind the house but I can. I live at the foot of the 2nd tallest mountain in Arkansas. The land pretty much is going upwards 50 yards behind my house. I have houses to my left and right, about 200 yards away. Two houses higher than me and one is my dad's. I am on a lease and hope to hunt it somehow, it is an hour and a half to my hunting spot and out of any phone service. We have deer that we see some but mostly late in the evenings. We have a garden as does our neighbor just south of us. So there is a power line right of way between us where the deer tend to funnel thru. Last June, the wife and I built an enclosed blind to hunt out of if we had to. So my 84 year old father is getting worse and worse with his memory and other things so we are spending more and more time taking care of him and getting him to his appointments etc. And then we have the stepdaughter that is nearly 40 and an addict. She lives about 90 miles north of us and is all chaos and drama. So my wife is constantly running up to help her or whatever with her court dates etc. So for me, it will most likely hunt behind the house if I hunt at all. My wife has put one of those blocks out for the deer to eat and we have a water trough for them to drink out of and they seem to be using both. She had wanted to hunt out of the blind with her crossbow but it seems like she won't have much time for it either. At any rate, being crippled up and half blind as I am now, the blind is looking pretty good. I have always preferred a natural blind set up but it is what it is behind the house. I just tell myself that I am hunting a trail or funnel of sorts and it is what it is. One thing about it, if I get one, it won't be very far to the house.

Whatever you have to do is fine with me as long as it's legal and ethical. We all have crosses to bear for sure and sounds like you have a load. I'll keep you and your wife in my prayers.

I can hunt out of my back door, and have a time or two, but mostly I just drive a mile and a half to our mountain land or go back through the cove to the State Game Lands. I'm glad I can still get out and get around pretty well, but you never know what the morrow will bring. Stay well and take care.

You don't have to sell me on the idea. God knows I've shot a pile of deer out my back door. I still enjoy hunting public every chance I get for as long as I can, but I'm also thankful for being blessed to hunt out my back door, too. Hope things settle down for you; take care!

I let a section go between me and the house behind ours on another road. it's about 30 yds wide and 250 ft long connecting a patch of wood with a grown up field. it grew up and got real thick then I when in and cut a deer trail down it and they started using it within a week. Iv'e got 2 opposing ground blinds there for north our south wind. I hunted it a few times last year in Nov. and saw 2 bucks but they were moving fast looking for love ad I was too slow to stop them for a shot. It blows my mind the places deer live now, the next world record won't come from some far away remote place, it'll come from some suburb within sight of big city.

I love "behind the house" setups! Killed many a deer from them in Illinois, and my son shot his first deer at age 12, about 80 yards behind our house. I might take one from behind my house this year. It's always a calculation anytime we move and are looking at houses!

I hunt a small patch of woods behind the house because it's about all I have. It's not getting much deer traffic right now but it's convenient.

I would much prefer to hunt “the big woods” up north (Pa.) but mostly hunt literally right out my back door. I live on 18 acres border to state game lands so hunting is ok. Very flat and thick with brush and sticker bushes. Why? because I just don’t get the chance to get away so I hunt where it is convenient or don’t hunt at all.

We see some pretty good bucks in what one would think isn't the best place to hunt. One thing about it, very few dogs running the deer here this close to homes

Over the years I've seen a lot of nice buck in my patch. I used to have 4 or 5 different bucks and a couple of them would be nice. Things have changed in the area though...some stuff was cut down, other stuff planted or let grow up. The movement is completely different that what it was a few years ago. And there are beans in the field behind me this year. When there are beans the is lower deer traffic on this side.

At one time I could sit on my place and watch deer come and go every morning or evening from the woods across the way. Common to see dozens maybe even as many as 50. All I could do was watch but I don't see them these days. I think our numbers are still good (maybe not as good) but the movement is all different.

Still, every time I think about going for a hunt/sit I have a choice. I can walk out back or drive to the state FWA which is more frustration than fun.

Consider age/health and the fact that I can't cover ground like I used to and close to the house usually wins out.

I'm not sure what I would do if I killed a deer very far from the truck. LOL I've never even drawn my bow on a deer over there so I probably don't need to worry too hard over it.

MGF, I have cut trails thru an area I meant to hunt in order to get the deer to walk it. I cut them to my advantage for a ground blind or whatever. Deer like easy paths too. We are allowed to bait on private property here if we choose to as well as salt or mineral licks. We added the big tub, half of a plastic drum, with water for them and they do use it. I even add a little salt to it sometimes. We have used downed trees to ease the deer over closer to the spot I wanted them to go. They just simply take the easy route.

I'm blessed to have 8 acres around my house to hunt, and another 25-acre farm nine miles away. I'll walk out the door to hunt whenever the wind direction is right.

I have 52 acres that butts up to state land so yes I just hunt right out the back door.

I could hunt right here at my place, but really there are lots of hunting leases around us, so we typically do not shoot any deer "at the back door". Now if I get the chance to shoot hogs I will never pass that opportunity. We have had them here, but they seem to move off very quickly...

-Bones

I'm a flight shot from the back woodlot. It's the only place around here that isn't posted.

Prayers Up for Tradslinger and FAMILY! BLESSED BE!

Bucks fighting in the woods behind my house this week 10 yards from my stand.

now that is pretty awesome Crazyjjk, gotta love it!

I bought my 30 acres in 2003 and was hunting it before that. But since then, I have taken at least 3 deer per year here. Some years I have taken deer during firearms season including a P&Y 10 point.My daughter killed her first deer here and I hope I live long enough to teach my grandson to hunt on this piece of ground. We are surrounded buy homes and subdivisions on each side. It's not quite here trains, dogs barking, kids playing, car alarms going off and many other noisy distractions, but the deer live here. I get to watch these deer year around and I'm blessed to have it.

I live in NY, and hunt behind the house...:)

My body is suffering the effects of doing careless things in my younger days. I had a botched hip replacement and knee surgery that gives me problems so my get up and go isn't like it once was.

I always had great places to hunt in the past but my mobility is such that dropping 1K on a hunting lease membership that I may not be able to hunt isn't in the cards for me now.

I have 4 acres of wood that the deer pass through and my neighbor will let me kill a doe on his place.

At 75 I just don't have the drive to hunt like I once did so hunting behind my house may be it.

I have a ladder stand overlooking my woods adn just planted a small food plot that really draws in the deer so I do have a place to sit and watch the woods.

The view from my ladder stand overlooking the food plot;

The deer like the plot really well.

I have owned 10 acres in N.VT for 21 yrs but unbelievably had never actually seen a deer on it until this March when two does watched me retrieve my arrow that just missed a snowshoe hare. Have seen lots of sign so know they pass through it. I posted a roving thread on it back in 5/19 showing some of the deer sign and the ideal habitat of mostly regrowth forest and many apple trees. The property is only 125yds wide and posted on both sides so I've never hunted deer there.

This past Christmas my son gave me two trail cams I hung in travel areas set up for 10 sec video mode and can't believe the oodles of video of deer, bear, turkeys, coyote, raccoon, hare and porcupine recorded. One hung just 50yds from the cabin had the most activity and the other about 50yds beyond was also quite active.

My brother who passed away last Thanksgiving left us a deluxe model ladder stand that we will set up this weekend. It would have to be a perfect set up to take a shot but just might give it a sit or two this season.

My wife is very excited about deer hunting although she mainly gun hunts. She has a crossbow but yet to take a deer with it. We can see the spot where the box blind is from the bathroom window but even better from the second floor end window. She bought some corn and sweet feed to mix together and started putting a coffee can of it out for the deer in the mornings. Last evening we watched one doe come in and feed a little before 3 bucks came in and pushed her off. I can't gripe at her, she shot the biggest deer on our lease last year, a huge 9 point with 22" inside spread and then a big 9 point. With all of my operations the last couple of years, it has been 3 years since my last deer. She is 63 but is ready to drag or help drag a deer out. Anyways, she is constantly looking out the windows for deer back there. She had to have a game camera so we got one, she goes every day or so and pulls the card to see what is on it. She is always excited about it like it was Christmas LOL.

On those fighting bucks behind my house. It definitely has me excited but here in NY the season doesn't open until Oct 1. Hopefully they are still around as the rut definitely changes their patterns. Good hunting everyone no matter where you hunt.

I've hunted... from inside the house. Killed a HUGE turkey from my laundry room this spring.

Two bucks were sparing last night in my next door neighbor's mowed pasture below her house. She wasn't happy with how they tore up her lawn

behind the house is fine or even next to the deck..

Out the back door.

Sure like to know how Tom Alexander and his wife got on my post. I do not know them. I submitted a picture of my neighbors torn up lawn. STRANGE!!!!

I hunt a place just a few miles from my house. Lots of pressure around. What I have figured out after 5 seasons is that the deer feel most safe behind the house. Despite there being dogs and lost of activity by the farmer daily, the woods behind the house offer them everything they need. Yep, I got a good stand there right now. Just waiting for the weather to cool off.

Justin

good luck with your hunt,, try to concentrate on nature when you there,,

Nature is what it is all about. how can you not be totally aware of everything out there? Even behind the house, nature is unfolding before your eyes. All of the critters and birds trying to get a last minute meal or a drink of water before the darkness setting in. The evening noises are so much different than the morning. The deer have learned to tolerate us and live in and around us in spite of us. I shot and killed a bear with my bow while standing on my front porch 30 years ago. Had bears on the porch a lot. Used to have a couple of grey fox that would come and sit feet from me when I was cleaning fish. I would flip each one a fish carcass and they would disappear for a bit but then come right back. God has blessed us with too much nature not to appreciate it.

You do not need much property to bow hunt. Just need deer to come on it once in a while

My wife will not let me, been married 36 years now. If i get tag soup I just park my rig up the road.

You have to sneak on your own property? Wow

Killed a small buck several years ago while hearing the wife rattling pans in the kitchen while cooking supper,about 50 yards behind our cabin was a joy to hunt

I used to own 6 acres of what was left of an old farm and hunted behind the house. On my property, I had a ladder stand and a ground blind and on my neighbor's property, I had a ladder stand. I never killed a lot there in 28 years because I'd come up with excuses why not to shoot. She had a young one with her, or it's inconvenient, or I'll wait for the big buck. I moved 5 years ago but am still allowed to hunt there but the new owner has ruined it for hunting. He's out until dark working around the property almost every night and now he has a huge pool project going on. The deer don't come up in the field until after dark. At my age, 78, I don't feel safe climbing anymore and quite honestly, the fire doesn't burn as brightly as it once did.

Big bucks like small places...

prayer sent for you and your family. Good luck hunting.

My closest hunting behind the house is probably at least an hour from the house to have any real chance, legally.

Photo taken yesterday across the street from my house...

Wish I could. But these are more a pet.

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