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re: Not a hunter, but how much land does it take to hunt deer?
Posted on 10/18/25 at 1:05 pm to homemadeshine
Posted on 10/18/25 at 1:05 pm to homemadeshine
Hunt where you can.
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Posted on 10/18/25 at 1:05 pm to homemadeshine
2 acres is too small because there’s a very high chance anything they shoot will run onto the neighbor’s property. They better have talked to the neighbors ahead of time to get permission to retrieve downed deer if necessary.
Also, are there any homes or buildings nearby? Because if so, there’s a good chance with 2 acres that they don’t have space to be the legal minimum distance from occupied buildings. Not to mention safety issues it they’re rifle hunting on such a small parcel
Also, are there any homes or buildings nearby? Because if so, there’s a good chance with 2 acres that they don’t have space to be the legal minimum distance from occupied buildings. Not to mention safety issues it they’re rifle hunting on such a small parcel
Posted on 10/18/25 at 1:53 pm to homemadeshine
The best deer lease I’ve ever had was only 40 acres about an hour outside of Atlanta. A good buddy and I leased it for many years. Bordered on one side by a several hundred acre nature preserve and the other by a small agricultural area/farm. The landowner lived in the Carolinas and was never around.
The farmer didn’t hunt and mostly grew apples with a bit of corn. We consistently took a very good buck by local standards about every other year. Often times it isn’t so much about sheer acreage as it is good genetics, prime location and minimal hunting pressure.
We were absolutely gutted when the land was sold. Now it’s a Church and summer youth camp.
The farmer didn’t hunt and mostly grew apples with a bit of corn. We consistently took a very good buck by local standards about every other year. Often times it isn’t so much about sheer acreage as it is good genetics, prime location and minimal hunting pressure.
We were absolutely gutted when the land was sold. Now it’s a Church and summer youth camp.
This post was edited on 10/18/25 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 10/18/25 at 2:41 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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There are an estimated one million deer in Louisiana, more than any other time in history. If anything the south in general needs to increase harvest.
You keep saying this as if it’s because of the orange army. Managed properties have deer numbers up, not the “if it’s brown, it’s down” folk
Posted on 10/18/25 at 2:55 pm to MC5601
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If I owned 500 acres and my 2 acre neighbor was filling his tags (5 deer per hunter in my county) I would be pissed.
Boo hoo….
Posted on 10/18/25 at 2:55 pm to Tigerfan14
It’s because of the reduction in canopied old growth timber due to sprawl and people cutting down trees in general. It has nothing to do with “managed properties”, unless by that you mean timber management by companies like Weyerhaeuser who propagate the “orange army”.
Posted on 10/18/25 at 6:09 pm to Rize
Watch Seek One. Those guys hunt small small plots of woods. Granted, those plots are connected to other plots of woods, but they have killed 200 plus inch deer within 50 yards of houses.
This is bow hunting.
This is bow hunting.
Posted on 10/18/25 at 11:40 pm to MC5601
quote:put a fence on the 2 acre side. Deer are lazy. Unless there's a white oak on the other 2 acres the deer won't go.
What you can do legally
Posted on 10/19/25 at 4:28 pm to saintsfan1977
So 1 acre is roughly 70 yards by 70 yards. 2 acres would be approx 98 x 98 yards (thanks TDeacon for checking my math).
IMO. Too small to hunt since you could easily sling a bullet across someone else property
IMO. Too small to hunt since you could easily sling a bullet across someone else property
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 11:03 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 5:03 pm to MsandLa
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John's creek Georgia across the street from the city reservoir.
The biggest and best trophy buck population in Georgia is in the ATL suburbs, which includes John's Creek (very nice area by the way
) There's a YouTube channel out there with some guys that only hunt ATL metro subdivisions with bows (can't shoot guns) and it causes much consternation on the Georgia Outdoors board. Everything they do is legal but the traditionalists hate them because it's like "cheating".
ETA- it might be the Seek One people another poster mentioned.
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:39 am to TopWaterTiger
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So 1 acre is roughly 70 yards by 70 yards. 2 acres would be 140 x 140.
Check your math. 140 yards by 140 yards would be 4 acres.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:44 am to TigerDeacon
2 acres would be about a square 295ft x 295ft. So a little over 98ydsx98yrds.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:52 am to TigerDeacon
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2 acres would be about a square 295ft x 295ft. So a little over 98ydsx98yrds.
Exactly. It’s totally crazy that people would try to hunt on something barely bigger than a football field. Definitely not an ethical endeavor
Imagine if your lease or property was next to these guys and you are trying to manage for mature deer. In our area of Texas, it takes about 15-20 acres to support one deer. Me and my neighbors would lose our minds
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 10:02 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:00 am to MC5601
If the property is a perfect square and you hunted in the exact middle of it you would be less than 150 feet or less than 50 yards from any side of it.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:00 am to TigerDeacon
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Check your math.
Thanks. You are correct. Thats what I get for typing fast on a phone.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:47 am to homemadeshine
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I'm asking because a co-worker said she and her husband are going to hunt on 2 acres of land. I was shocked because I always thought with that small amount of land, there's a good chance if you shoot one, he could very likely end up on someone else's land.
From about 1996 to 2006 I shot 2 does a year from my front porch on 7 acres but every one of those deer were shot about 100 yards away from the porch within about 50 feet of one another. Could have shot some bucks but let them walk because I was only putting meat in the freezer.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:19 pm to MC5601
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Definitely not an ethical endeavor
In what way?
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:41 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
quote:I think this is my position. I dont view deer in the way many seem to, shoot em if you want as long as it is legal and safe. No one owns em, and everyone has different things that make them happy while deer hunting. Just do it how you can or how you want.
Does the guy next to both of yall with 3000 acres get to be extra pissed? Where does it end? If someone has legal access to the land, is being safe with their shots, and is able to attract and take deer on small acreage more power to them. There are more deer in North America today than any other time in history, the resource isn’t in danger of being over harvested by people with two acres.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:51 pm to DownSouthDave
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In what way?
It's unethical to shoot a deer on your land if you don't spend as much money feeding them as the neighbors.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 10/20/25 at 3:56 pm to Loup
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It's unethical to shoot a deer on your land if you don't spend as much money feeding them as the neighbors.
Unfortunately, the 2 acre neighbor tagging out every year is one of the reasons you see high fences popping up left and right. These guys abuse the resource and eventually they have nothing else to hunt because their bigger neighbors fence them out
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