That 2 acres seems small if yall all don't have trees to stop stray bullets. Ive got a friend that hunts east tx too, and he had a target practicing neighbor that was wizzing bullets by his tower blind. He walked over there which was several hundred yards away and noticed that the dude was actually shooting over a cliff with no back ground and the bullets were all flying right down the draw towards my friends blind. He said that the guy had shot so much in that direction that the dudes trees were getting chopped in half by the bullets. Some folks don't care were those bullets go after they leave the bore. I had one wiz over my house about two years ago. The guy across the road and through the woods had been target shooting and glanced one off something and it lobbed right over the top of my house. That's when I realized that all those shots were pointed right at my house. NICE. I don't shoot a lot around my house. Ive got ten acres and try to shoot in the middle of the day when every body is gone. Mostly because of the noise. I have a big dirt mound to stop the bullets, and if for some weird reason one got past that, there is 300 yards of solid trees.

I've had that happen to me before while I was dove hunting. there were people shooting behind us and after we were done I took off my earmuffs to hear the showering pellets and I even got hit once or twice

Showering pellets out of shotgun much, much different than rifle bullet in my estimation...

or on their back patio leaving a 6ft pool of blood all over it, while they're having a kids birthday party! Be sure to talk w/neighbors.

Is it legal to use one of these? :

that's great

My Dad can't shoot a gun on his property in Hays County anymore because it is less than 5 or 10 acres (don't know which size is the legal minimum) but his place is a little less than 5 acres so it doesn't matter for him. He is in an unincorporatated area but in a subdivision, I think that being in a subdivision makes the increased minimum acreage requirement affect him even though it is the county not the subdivision that created this law. He can use a bow or crossbow, though, and is planning on getting a crossbow soon. They really outta find a way to increase the harvest of deer in my parent's neighborhood because it is insanely overpopulated. My Mom loves to garden, but the deer are a constant problem and will quickly decimate a flower bed, etc. She's tried deer resistant plants, deer repellent sprays, bags of human hair, etc. but she can't keep them from devouring almost everything she plants.

I live in an unincorporated area close to our lake, my backyard is a little over 2 acres. I imagine my neighbors would be sh*** themselves if I started popping off the 30-06. Also, 6 acres, if it were roughly square, is only 170 yards on each side, not much room at all.

I used to hunt on 3 acres in the country. Solid brush. I used a bow. Every year I would call the game warden and make sure all is good. Each year he would check me once. Never had an issue. In Wilson County. We had some nice bucks on that land! I miss that place.

Sounds like it'll be interesting! Harvest any good ones?

I'm saying this having a good friend that lives on 12 acres in Dripping Springs: Be very careful to know your neighbors and whose land the animal could end up on before you do it.

There are a lot of hippies in that area and some of them care so much about the deer that they will prosecute you to the fullest extent they possibly can for any infraction.

My buddy, who is a lawyer, stopped messing with it even though he has some pretty big bucks come through because one of the neighbors went absolutely insane when she found out he was planning on shooting a deer. Austin area is full of weirdos.

Ain't no doubt about that.