I was living in the middle of the forest a few years back. I could go outside my house and walk 100 yards in any direction and be in prime/legal hunting.
Here we are 40 minutes north of Spokane on 5.5 acres of countryside. There are 3 safe, legal and somewhat acceptable shooting lanes I have found on my land. Haven't hunted them yet. We have quail, deer and the rare grouse. If I was a quail eating type I could fill my bag daily. But I just don't like quail. Deer, this year it is any buck. I don't hunt bucks. Just too few to spend my time hunting an animal I am not likely to see. And I much prefer doe and fawn to buck.
Now when it goes to any deer here... eventually I will get out and hunt again. Won't take long to fill a tag. They bed down in my yard and there is always a bunch of them around. Makes me wonder what is wrong with fish and game. They aren't counting the deer like I do. Their herd count is way off and low. But they have weird math that don't make sense. And part of it is road kill counts. But that fails to take into consideration that on mild winters the deer are less likely to go on the roads. And they tend to only count from state and county roads. If they would drive out to some of these small roads and look at our fields in the evenings they would count hundred of doe per field. But they only count certain days and not much at night.
....get me rambling and bitching on that topic lol
Here we are 40 minutes north of Spokane on 5.5 acres of countryside. There are 3 safe, legal and somewhat acceptable shooting lanes I have found on my land. Haven't hunted them yet. We have quail, deer and the rare grouse. If I was a quail eating type I could fill my bag daily. But I just don't like quail. Deer, this year it is any buck. I don't hunt bucks. Just too few to spend my time hunting an animal I am not likely to see. And I much prefer doe and fawn to buck.
Now when it goes to any deer here... eventually I will get out and hunt again. Won't take long to fill a tag. They bed down in my yard and there is always a bunch of them around. Makes me wonder what is wrong with fish and game. They aren't counting the deer like I do. Their herd count is way off and low. But they have weird math that don't make sense. And part of it is road kill counts. But that fails to take into consideration that on mild winters the deer are less likely to go on the roads. And they tend to only count from state and county roads. If they would drive out to some of these small roads and look at our fields in the evenings they would count hundred of doe per field. But they only count certain days and not much at night.
....get me rambling and bitching on that topic lol
. Dove, ducks, plenty of squirrels. Not as many rabbits as we used to have, and zero quail, due to the fire ants. All the fish you could ever eat can be caught from the Red when she's on the rise. 
