About20 yrs ago, Ibowhunted one evening,early-Nov, alongthe edge of a ~20A harvestedsoybean field. Didn't see anything that evening.About~45 min after sunset,I wasbackpacking my tree stand half-way across the field when a God-awful loud rifle shot rang out(.243/.30-06??), and it just scared the piss out of me. There is no rifle hunting in my county, and the shotgun season was still3 weeks away. A local poacher was somewhere along the edge, and I do not know if he thought I was a deer (?), or if he wanted to scare me, or if he took a potshot at an unseen deer. For what it was worth, I called the game warden when I got back home (pre-cell phone days)...
-fsh