Tonight ODNR gave a presentation to our community about options to deal with the overpopulation of deer. I spoke to them afterwards about hunting in our neighborhood. Mind you, it’s an older neighborhood with yards 50 feet wide. He said I don’t need a special permit and it’s no different than hunting 100 acres with the exception of no firearm use. And there is no law saying I must retrieve the animal so if I lose sight, I’m not banging on 30 doors asking permission to look for it. Of course I‘d do my due diligence. So I think my plan would be to try and thin out the herd by shooting the injured…there are plenty. The nice thing is that I can hunt in blue jeans and a street jacket cause these deer don’t know any better I’m lucky because my property backs up to a city park and retrieval could be straight forward.
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