Anyone hunt in city limits?

[TXSTBowhunter]

I was helping out some family friends clear some brush off of their adjacent 5 acre lots in southwest austin and made a joke about bowhunting out there, and low and behold I got permission to.

I guess the question is if anyone has any insight on hunting 10 acres inside Austin city limits. From what I've looked up it looks legal and I plan on calling the game warden but I figured I'd check here first.

I do plan on getting written permission from them, and a little about the properties, there is a 11 acre plot next to them on one side, Neighborhood on 2 sides up at the front of the property, and some sort of greenbelt all across the back of the property.

Thanks

[Acostades]

no luck hunting within city limits but could be fun. Be safe about what and where you shoot

[ckamp52]

being in Austin I would be worried about using the wrong tag. Might look like a buck but may identify as a doe

[LAW]

We have been hunting on an old golf course about 100+ acres just blocks from shopping, lots of deer, the city will tell you no so talk to your local Game Warden.

[rcm719]

If they taste like a McDouble with cheese, you know they ain't wild game.

[GarGuy]

Sounds like a gold mine.. get you a feeder running asap.You might checck on the 11 acres joining yall just in case you have to trail one over there.

[Landrover]

Sounds like a gold mine.. get you a feeder running asap.You might checck on the 11 acres joining yall just in case you have to trail one over there.

Exactly!!! Congratulations on getting that spot! !!!

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[lovetohunt]

being in Austin I would be worried about using the wrong tag. Might look like a buck but may identify as a doe

With a double lung shot I don't think he will be identifing with anything anymore.

Might be an issue if the deer expires in a neighbors front yard. I could see this being on the evening news.

[crawdaddct]

Aim true. I just keep picturing a deer running through the neighborhood with a arrow stick out his hind end. In Austin, that would be front page stuff.

[TXSTBowhunter]

Sounds like a gold mine.. get you a feeder running asap.You might checck on the 11 acres joining yall just in case you have to trail one over there.

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to it!!


I know the owner of the 11 acres has been less than neighborly towards the land owners, but i plan on hunting the opposite side of the property to save a potential headache

[Kingfisher789]

hunt in a subdivision on lots 10 acres or less in an unincorporated area of a county if the commissioners court, by order, prohibits the discharge of a firearm or the use of archery equipment in such subdivisions. (Contact local county clerk and ask about §235.022, Local Government Code.)

I doubt if you start asking permission that things will go well....

[2B4Him]

Two adjacent five-acre lots doesn't equal a 10 acre lot. As restrictive as most cities try to be now, I'd bet they would say not a 10 acre lot even if the legal ownership is in the exact same name if there are separate lots.

[Patton]

Never hunted in Austin City Limits and don't recall the exact law for Travis county. I live in SW austin now, shoot me a pm if you ever need help dragging something out of the woods or searching a blood trail. You hit a jackpot with that

[CabezaBlanca]

I would bet good money that Austin has a city ordinance against that. If it's 10.01 acres they have no say so about it.

[sandbill]

being in Austin I would be worried about using the wrong tag. Might look like a buck but may identify as a doe

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!!!