Down here in Charles Co. MD, the " unofficial rifle" season starts the week before Thanksgiving. I was walking out of a field ~12 yrs ago at dusk from an afternoon of bowhunting when some yahoo cranked off a .243 or some similar calibre not more than 150 yds away. Made me wonder if he scoped me first and figured I wasn' t a deer. I caught up with another character (same field) a few years later and had a few words with him about the rifle he was carrying - tresspass, rifle hunting, and out of the regular gun season in Charles Co. - more common than I care to think about it.
Yes, I did have conversations with the game warden.

-fsh