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mullet:
 If it's legal, sure. Like said though, it would probally suck if one fell over dead at some little kids birthday party, hotdog cookout. We have a few golf courses that will let us go after hogs at night with dogs or Q-beams and 22cal rifes, so we don't wake anybody up.

Justin Snyder:
It often becomes a public safety issue, not just a management issue. Utah has several residential areas that are special archery only late seasons. The state requires a special archery safety course that you have to pass with 100% to participate. I think this is one of the few times that the state DWR had a good idea.  ;D

billy:
I would, if it were the only place to hunt or if the hunting was exceptional.  But I like to get away from people and sneak thru the woods with my bow by myself, and hunting in someone's backyard would kinda ruin the experience for me.....but that's just my opinion.

There is a big neighborhood near where I live that borders a long strip of US Army Corps of Engineers property.  It used to be legal to hunt there, but my friend (who hunts with a compound bow that almost shoots as fast as he shoots off his mouth) used to bowhunt on that property.  Well, he used to climb up in trees within clear view of people's bay windows, and the homeowners would wake up in the morning and see him in the tree.  A few times people came out and asked him what he was doing and told him they didn't like seeing him in the trees in their backyard.  My friend has an ego to boot, so he'd tell them "What I'm doing is totally legal so shut up and stop harassing me."  Well, that's all it took.  The Corps of engineers got several complaints about some a$$%#%^^  bowhunter who gave them attitude, and they no longer allowed anyone to hunt there.

That's EXACTLY the type of hunter we don't need in the woods. 

Mechslasher:
yes and have several times.  a huge subdivision on the lake here lets bow hunters apply for a permit to bow hunt.  you get a map of the vacant lots and the houses NOT to hunt beside.  subdivisions are great places to hunt and when you have the deer patterned all you have to do is sit and wait.  the deer rarely deviate from trails as they weave their way through subdivisions.  find a house with a dog and it'll tell you when the deer are coming.  it's amusing to see $500,000 homes with chicken wire over the shrubs and flowers to keep the deer from eating $15,000 worth of landscaping.  had a fellow offer me and my cousin a cooler of beer to sit on his deck and shoot the deer as they came in to feed on his manicured lawn.  city yankees are some humorous people.  when i first started hunting the area the fellow over the program wasn't thrilled with the idea of traditional equipment so my cousin loaned me one of his compounds.  wasn't fond of the idea but i went along to keep my cousin company.  the second morning had a doe come in to about 30 yards, she fell over in sight.  15 min. later, a five pointer came trotting in straight to me.  whistled to stop him but he kept coming so i put the fiber optic pin on his throat and let fly.  the 2.5" mechanical point almost took his head off at 15 yards.  the blades severed his spine and he flipped over backwards.  this was the last time i touched a compound.  i gave the meat to someone who needed it but the hunt was no fun at all.  it was almost like shooting fish in a barrel. 

recurve shooter:
i would. on one of the two places i hunt, the 8:00 train sounds like its going to climb up in the tree with you. but hey, deer's deer.

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