Interesting thread and it strikes a cord with me because of something that happened the other day. But, before I get to that, I would definitely call the game warden as well. Even though they are on their own property a bullet does not know that and you are definitely looking at it from the right standpoint if you are concerned about the situation.

Now, on Tuesday I decided to hunt one of the local gamelands. I was situated on a small fencerow about halfway between a private property boundary and a local game preserve. The property line was about 200-250 yards in one direction and the game preserve was about 400 yards in the other. I was set up in one of the pop-up hunting blinds commonly used today. I had a bright orange piece of cloth wrapped around the tree behind and above the blind. I also had a blaze orange cap hanging out the front window (in addition to having a blaze orange cap and vest on my person).

When the wind and snow picked up I pulled in the cap and closed the one window until it abated. Upon opening the window I noticed a hunter approaching me from the private property direction along the fencerow I was sitting in. I had noticed him when he first walked in in the morning and had placed the cap out in front of the blind because of him. His exact words as he approached the blind were...

" I don't mean to be rude but you almost got yourself shot."

Apparently, a doe had come out of the treeline in front of me and he had proceeded to shoot at it without seeing any of my blaze orange until after he had shot. He did not push the issue but suggested that I not be inside the blind or that I put more orange outside of the blind as the area we hunt does see quite a bit of shooting.

I guess my question would be, whose responsibility would it be if someone was shot in my situation. The guy in the blind for being in the blind or the guy doing the shooting for not fully identifying what was behind the target?