Shooting near homes?

[Hnthrdr]

The weird thing is you can buy a gently used Lexus GX, LS with a great offroad system and outstanding durability and luxury for less than a Honda, Toyota, Ford, Chevy, etc.

Lexus is truly the best kept secret in either SUV or cars. They are generally perfectly maintained and in perfect shape at 3 years old.

Yeah they are a bit but not much more expensive than 4Runners but they are a “Lexus”

 

[flathead#2]

OP, you made the right call.

 

[wytx]

I'm shooting.. if me and the animal I'm pursuing are on legally accessible land, with a clear and safe direction of fire I'm sending it.
If u don't like it, sell your house and move.
Your feelings don't trump my rights.

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Umm, their rights are that your bullet does not come onto their property. If it crosses that line you are in trouble.

 

[ReaptheHeat]

Just having to ask the question shows we don’t have enough safety education, warnings on every part of every rifle, laser etched warnings on every piece of brass, lawsuits, and public service announcements. Cheese and rice.

Wtf

Do you know how stupid it sounds to say you’re actually thinking about firing a high power rifle directly in the direction of people?

Your description of this scenario is NOT really how I described it. Define "direction" of people? Please don't move the goalposts like the animal was feet from someone's home. Obviously not a stupid question since people in this thread would have taken the shot. And to top it off, Rokslide tends to attract a different breed of hunter. If I posted this on Facebook I bet the results would skew 50/50. The problem is really the optics of the situation that someone has a rifle pointed in the VICINITY of homes/people even from my perspective the shot was safe with appropriate safeguards in place.

Obviously I didn't take it because of how I felt, but I KNOW others would and wanted a second opinion from people with experience from RS. So cut the belittling elitist crap.

 

[Steve300xcw]

So it wasnt a big enough buck?

 

[ReaptheHeat]

So it wasnt a big enough buck?

Bigger than what most people are posting in the MD Meatpole Thread.

 

[gregsky]

I was in a similar situation last year. Opening day late season pronghorn hunt in an area with VERY limited public land. A small herd got spooked to about 100yds of me, easy shot, but there was another hunter about 300yds behind the herd directly in line with me. I would have been shooting downhill, with a berm between the animals and the other hunter. Didn't even consider lining up a shot.

 

[JoeDirt]

Lots of people hunt smaller parcels of land. You have options, different weapon, tree stands, ground blinds in good locations, if baiting is legal maybe a bait pile in the bottom of a draw.

I cant remember but i think on some federal lands there are rules on shooting distances away from established campgrounds.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I personally wouldn’t hunt that area. But that’s me

Agee.

 

[fisherman983]

Umm, their rights are that your bullet does not come onto their property. If it crosses that line you are in trouble.

Hence the entirety of my statement being clear line of fire. That wouldn't be a clear line

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[Cannonball]

I’d go archery

 

[Traveler]

Your description of this scenario is NOT really how I described it. Define "direction" of people? Please don't move the goalposts like the animal was feet from someone's home. Obviously not a stupid question since people in this thread would have taken the shot. And to top it off, Rokslide tends to attract a different breed of hunter. If I posted this on Facebook I bet the results would skew 50/50. The problem is really the optics of the situation that someone has a rifle pointed in the VICINITY of homes/people even from my perspective the shot was safe with appropriate safeguards in place.

Obviously I didn't take it because of how I felt, but I KNOW others would and wanted a second opinion from people with experience from RS. So cut the belittling elitist crap.

Would archery hunt it no problem. Rifle hunting within 500 yds of at least 9 homes/facilities requires a very specific scenario. Only someone on the ground knows if it is safe. If you are asking online for opinion my thought is you weren’t sure and did the right thing by not shooting. Have a hard time thinking of situation where I would hunt and shoot that area with rifle.