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Good evening, I am looking for someone to allow me hunt on your property. I have been hunting for many years and respect owners rules. If you would allow me to hunt please contact me. Thank you

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Hello:

We have a giant back yard that deer roam through all the time. If you want, you could shoot at them from our porch. We set a limit of 3 kills on a day though.

Cheers, Beth

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Hi Beth,
   Thanks for the response! I was waiting to get a lot of hate mail. We were wondering what town you live in? We would only be using our bows right now. Do you have any preferences or rules to go by? Also do you charge a fee to hunt on your property?  Thanks, C________

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C______:

We're out past H_________. Bows are fine and deer wander close enough for easy shots.

We keep a few rules for hunting from the porch. First, every time you miss a shot you must chug a beer. Second, if you miss the same animal twice you have to run a naked lap around the house. We like to keep it fun, so we don't allow assault-rifle hunting (you would not believe the guns some people show up with).

We never charge anyone, but expect hunters to bring more beer than they will drink while hunting so that the hosts can get a decent buzz. Next weekend we might do a salt lick in the backyard if that interests you.

Cheers, Beth

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Beth:
I appreciate your response to my post. Unfortunately, we aren't really big on drinking, especially with hunting( I'm clutsy enough without influence). I think we'll pass on the offer but thank you and just to let you know (not being nasty by all means), if you were to tell the wrong person that you're putting out a salt lick to get the deer to come in, they might take it the wrong way and say it's illegal. Thank you very much and hope you have lots of fun with your visiting hunters.

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C______:

We won't force you to drink if you don't want to. But we find that sometimes it lightens the mood and lubricates social interaction between strangers. Of course I was kidding about the salt lick! We do everything in a sporting way. Plus, so many deer come across our property it wouldn't matter. One visitor joked that if we wanted to be lazy we could just set up land mines in our yard and watch them destroy the deer that walked across while we sipped martinis. What do you think of that?

Also, if you don't want to drop in during the day, you might enjoy night hunting. Have you ever done that?

Cheers, Beth