Your Favorite Backyard Hunts

[520 Road Sow]

So many great adventures on the rivers chasing birds over the years with dad and the boys. I will say I'll always cherish the bird hunts with dad. He started the monster that's created now haha.
Few hunts from the years


I can't get enough of the Tooths the they present so much adventure its impossible to try and accomplish even in a lifetime. Being able to hit them within 45 minutes is pretty sweet to.

 

[hank4elk]

1st bull off my place a few years back. My home is in the pinions below the mesa. An afternoon napping old guy from porch. Herd of cows from porch.

 

[hank4elk]

Screwed up that one...lol gotta dig out some old pics to scan of Blacktails in the Irish Hills and Sierra bucks,they're around somewhere. Lots of trout & salmon pics.

 

[NEWHunter]

I do a lot of my hunting around home in the suburbs, so many of my hunts are literally backyard hunts. These birds are on some ground in the process of becoming a backyard.


My favorite hunt ever was yesterday in the aforementioned backyard. My son and I have been on a dozen or so hunts with just pictures and good memories to show for it. That changed yesterday. Here he is with one of those birds up close - with rooftops in the background.



He was genuinely on cloud nine. Not the most well composed trophy photo but it’s the first photo I took and his smile says it all. Smiling doesn’t come naturally for him and that’s why I love this photo so much. Hearing “this was the best day ever” unprompted for the 10th time yesterday had me on cloud nine.

Do worry, I’ll get a write-up posted soon.

 

[AggieHunter]

I wish I could hunt my backyard as every day after bowhunting mule deer about 30 min from my house I am greeted by 30-50 deer in town and then usually a couple of bucks that seem to taunt me my house.

 

[geetar]

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I can't get enough of the Tooths the they present so much adventure its impossible to try and accomplish even in a lifetime. Being able to hit them within 45 minutes is pretty sweet to.
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Ducks and geese have been the best backyard hunt for me. I grew up 5 minutes from a spot that I hunted for years. Can’t seem to find any sheep except in fences around here so I have to come all the way from NC to the Tooth’s. They are a very special place although it’s highly unlikely it will ever be a backyard hunt for me. The wife don’t like cold weather but she lets me go west when I want to so I’ll take that trade off.

 

[geetar]

Literally shot this one in the very back of the farm I grew up on. I don’t hunt there anymore but I helped my little brother drag his first one out from the same wood lot this year.

 

[mtmuley]

Montana is my backyard. mtmuley

 

[El Jason]

Backyard is relative. For stuff that’s 30 minutes from my door, it’s trout fishing, grouse, whitetail deer,
and turkeys ( I have zero interest in
turkeys).





Within a couple hours drive is some of my favorite country Ive ever been in.

 

[Northwoods Labs]

Most of my fall is spent waterfowl hunting on public lands within a 20 minute drive of my house:

 

[Chad Gus]

I live 2 miles from the Clark and Eau Claire county forest, here in Wisconsin, which comprises approximately 180,000 acres of land open to the public. Along with my family's 400+ acre farm I'm extremely fortunate to have excellent hunting opportunities out my back door, for most things Wisconsin has to offer. Turkeys would be my favorite, locally to hunt. These were all taken within 5 miles of my house
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[520 Road Sow]

Montana is my backyard. mtmuley

BOOM

 

[Northwoods Labs]

I am super lucky in that I have tons of fishing within 15 minutes of my house. Fishing smallies on the St. Croix River is my favorite "backyard" fishing experience:

 

[Phaseolus]

Does 1.5 miles from home count? She was a B list cow too so I still got to hunt a bull.

 

[mtmiller]

Thirty minutes.

 

[stealthy_bowman]

Literally back yard hunts from the wilds of NJ...These are simple hunts with my boys behind the house, across the street, or just up the road a bit, and are always the most memorable...

 

[Hem]

I've got 380 in my back yard....some day.

 

[SaskHunter]

I'm extremely lucky to have some amazing deer hunting right in my backyard. Although I love traveling to hunt, sometimes due to time constraints I have to hunt closer to home which is far from being a bad thing. The following deer were all taken within hiking distance of the house.

My wife's moose, also shot within hiking distance of the house.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

If the city wouldn't get on my case I'd have some real backyard hunts with Eurasian collared doves.

Haha, had one in my yard today that tempted me.

 

[Ben Long]

I'm a bit of a homebody when it comes to hunting. Most of my hunting is within 75 miles of my home in NW Montana, but that includes 4 million acres of national forest and 1 million acres of timber lands, so it's a hell of a backyard. That said, family medical issues have shorted my leash and my spare time and budget considerably over the past decade. I'm lucky to have a friend who allows me to hunt whitetails on a 2000 acre ranch on the outskirts of my town. Maybe 10 minutes between leaving my house and loading my rifle. On the high point of the property I can check look at my home's bedroom lights through my binoculars. I very much miss the adventure that goes with the backcountry and roadtrips. However, having that opportunity close to home has saved my mental health and kept me in venison several winters. I am very grateful for it.

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