I wear all orange T-shirts so even if I am just running out to grab a beer from the cooler and a deer wanders into the yard I can grab my loaded gun leaned up just outside the door a few feet and have at it

my dad stood and looked at one in the front yard this year I pulled up in the truck having just ran and checked out a drive we were about to do , I am pulling in pointing , oh he saw it , he was standing next to my loaded gun watching the deer.

it has to be between the open and close of season for the day

you have to be on land you have permission to hunt on

you have to have 50% of your upper body in orange.

you have to have a tag for it

shooting from a paved road is a no no

shooting from the car/truck is a no no without a disabled permit

shooting a youths antlerless tag for them is a no no.

but standing in the front yard as long as the shot is a safe one , take it.

We have a personal rule that deer that can be seen from the house are off limits.
The rule only applies to wife and me because we are the only ones who live and hunt here.
However, once during gun season while in for lunch and wearing jongjohns and a blaze orange shirt while eating a bowl of stew from the dining room window saw an obviously wounded buck near the edge of the garden. Quite a run-on sentence!
Went out onto the porch and shot the buck. Nobody came around asking to track a wounded buck so i tagged it.
Everything was done pursuant to the regulations.

LOl....our rule is who sees it first gets the shot. but I would give the wife first chance.

Your rule is good too.
Just so the rule is understandable.
And of course nice pass to the wife every time.

Two years ago i was very very tempted - a brute of a buck was guarding a doe all day. We had so much fun watching him move around guarding her and run off 4 other bucks that we did not go out all day. He made a real mean facial expression, quartered, and fuzzed up at each buck. He was too big to chase them. They all slunk away. At the end of the day we had sore eyes from binoculars and the spotting scope.

Why do you hunt? Is it for the excuse be outside? Do you want to brag about what a great hunter you are and hang antlers in a trophy room? Do you like eating venison? Did you shoot careful and give the animal a quick death? Do you think its unethical to eat animals you bought at the grocery store?