shooting from the road when you were driving.
08-09-2008 | 07:30 PM
#11
Dominant Buck
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From: Wisconsin
RE: shooting from the road when you were driving.
Same as in Wisconsin bronko ... you have to be a certain distance from the edge of the roadway before you can shoot and you can not shoot from a road. They will sometimes measure the distance from the center of a road. I know of one person that was sitting (two feet over the boundary line) near a road,only because the deer charged out of this finger of woods and ran right at him. He had a Warden come up and MEASURED (with a tape measure)the distance...
08-09-2008 | 07:51 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: shooting from the road when you were driving.
i have seen a lot as of latly not to say come gun season it will be the same.
ORIGINAL: bronko22000
As long as it is legal I can see no problem with this. Here in PA you have to be 20 yards off the road before you can shoot. Also, you can not have a loaded firearm in the vehicle. A ML is considered unloaded if there is no cap or primer installed or no powder in the pan for a flinter. And it is illegal to shoot down the road and across the road unless your line of sight is above traffic.
But I don't know where you guys hunt but to see a deer in the field during legal shooting hours in hunting season around here is almost unheard of.
As long as it is legal I can see no problem with this. Here in PA you have to be 20 yards off the road before you can shoot. Also, you can not have a loaded firearm in the vehicle. A ML is considered unloaded if there is no cap or primer installed or no powder in the pan for a flinter. And it is illegal to shoot down the road and across the road unless your line of sight is above traffic.
But I don't know where you guys hunt but to see a deer in the field during legal shooting hours in hunting season around here is almost unheard of.
08-09-2008 | 07:54 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: shooting from the road when you were driving.
dang one hard a** game warden
ORIGINAL: cayugad
Same as in Wisconsin bronko ... you have to be a certain distance from the edge of the roadway before you can shoot and you can not shoot from a road. They will sometimes measure the distance from the center of a road. I know of one person that was sitting (two feet over the boundary line) near a road,only because the deer charged out of this finger of woods and ran right at him. He had a Warden come up and MEASURED (with a tape measure)the distance...
Same as in Wisconsin bronko ... you have to be a certain distance from the edge of the roadway before you can shoot and you can not shoot from a road. They will sometimes measure the distance from the center of a road. I know of one person that was sitting (two feet over the boundary line) near a road,only because the deer charged out of this finger of woods and ran right at him. He had a Warden come up and MEASURED (with a tape measure)the distance...
08-11-2008 | 12:42 PM
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Fork Horn
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From: Central Iowa
RE: shooting from the road when you were driving.
I actually did this two years ago (not from the vehicle though). My son and I were hunting and nothing came close enough to the stand for a shot. We had left the property we were hunting and were heading home with about 15 minutes of legal shooting time left. I was driving down the gravel road and looked to my right to see a nice doe in the middle of the field off to the right. I stopped the truck, and she just stood there. I got out, took my ML out of its case, capped it, walked through the ditch, and went on the other side of the fence, and shot her. The field happened to be part of the farm we had permission to hunt. She ran about 40 yards to the woods and fell. I drove back there and we dressed her by headlights and called it a night.
