This and some possums and coons is all we got in my back yard but me and Easton do have some good squirrel hunts.

Great pics.

I used to get a herd of visitors like this guy in my backyard every now and then. I was sittting on the back porch looking at some photos on my camera and my wife came outside to see if I was coming to bed. When she flipped on the back porch light I took this photo. He was with a couple ladies and left as soon as I took the shot! I miss living in the hill country!!! Baker

Took this guy with the crossbow from inside my family room 5 years ago. He was in the backyard about 35 yards from the house at about 7:30 am on a sunday morning in the first week of November. Quietly opened a window and removed the screen. Went to the basement got the crossbow and he was still there at the edge of the cut grass. Used the couch as a rest and dropped him.



Not really the backyard but this guy was got himself shot while trying to steal dog food out of my garage:




This WT was taken from inside the house (out of the kitchen window this time) using the crossbow at at 42 yards. This was during the last week of December 2012.



My daughter is a big Edgar Allan Poe fan and wanted a stuffed crow so this guy was shot last spring at about a 100 yards from inside my kitchen with the 17hmr.

You have some great wildlife to hunt in you yard Hirogen.

yep great pics and storys , its a real blessing to hunt the backyard , lived in the concreate jungle of houston for many years and hated it , now i tell my wife" im going hunting so when dinners ready tap on the window " i set on my deck at night with my call on and its amazing what comes to the call , everything from the neighbors lapmutt to hogs.

Your Son should be rewarded for killing that Coon Sir

Not my back yard but I killed him in a back yard.

He was.

I have an incentive program for my kids where vermin are concerned:

Coyote - $50
Racoon - $10
Porcupine - $10
Gray Squirrel - $2
Crows - $2

In a typical year I usually pay out about $500 split fairly evenly to my 2 boys.

She was eating the seed under my bird feeders. I shot her from the window. First time I tired, I made too much noise, she came back night after night until I figured out that I had to have the window open already. Shot was 15 yards.

I don't have a digital photo, but about 10 years ago my Dad shot a 146" 12 point off his back porch in Hays county, just west of the San Marcos city limits. Growing up there, I saw multiple bucks over 130" looking out the living room windows.

I killed 7 pigs in my yard last week....they were in a trailer so I don't think that counts!

Been after a feral cat for a couple months...when I connect I will post pics.

Good One!

Grew up in a fully fenced, gated community in the middle of SA. Lots of greenbelt space was preserved and there were tons of deer because it was basically a several thousand acre HF. My dad woke me up one morning, handed me a broom and said to "shoe that deer outta the back yard before he eats all the flowers". Our backyard was a 6 ft wrought iron fence.

Giant buck back there. Was extremely pissed off when I approached him. Snorting and stomping and blowing snot and mock charged me a couple of times. I was 12.

Dad almost got me killed.

Already posted this in the varmint section but figured I would add it here as well since it was in the backyard:

I was down in my basement office this morning and at 8:30 am my wife yells to me that there is a coyote in the backyard. I run to the safe grab the rifle closest to the front (.308) stop at the ammo can and grab the first box of .308 ammo I can find. Ammo turns out to be 165 grain Accubonds.

Get into the family room and can see that the coyote is still there and is about 5 yards from the tree line and about 100 yards from the house. I slide open the double hung window on the deck door and the coyote looks at the door but does not bolt. I than load 3 rounds, chamber one, rest the rifle stock on the sill, take aim and tell my wife to plug her ears.

Coyote is slight quartering away and has turned its head back to the trees. I put the crosshairs behind its shoulder and pull the trigger. Coyote immediately goes down and thrashes for 5-10 seconds and than struggles back to its feet and turns 3 circles and goes back down for good.

Healthy looking young male:



View from the shooting position. You can just make out the dead coyote at the back of the cut grass trail in the centre of the photo. The closer object that looks like an animal is my sons foam deer shaped archery target (minus the legs).

Chicken Poacher:


cleaned him up a little:

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