First I'd like to invite my fellow hunters to familiarize themselves with hunting regulations and MI gun laws.
Breaking the laws and posting about it on a public forum could be held against you as evidence. Please stop. Partly cause I don't want you in trouble, secondly, I don't feel like your being very sportsman like or safe in your pursuits.......and, sorry, but I think it's down right lazy too.
From the MI DNR site:
Safety Zones Around Buildings
Safety zones are all areas within 150 yards (450 feet) of an occupied building, house, cabin, or any barn or other building used in a farm operation. No person, including archery and crossbow hunters, may hunt or discharge a firearm, crossbow or bow in a safety zone, or shoot at any wild animal or wild bird within a safety zone, without the written permission of the owner or occupant of such safety zone. The safety zone applies to hunting only. It does not apply to indoor or outdoor shooting ranges, target shooting, law enforcement activities or the discharge of firearms, crossbows or bows for any non-hunting purpose.
I would also like to say...There are reasons for many of the hunting laws....and I am glad to be here today to post the above! Here's my story for the weekend:
Yesterday, my dad shot at a doe, so my sister and I started to walk over to his area to help him. On the way there we were on a 2 track road through the woods(on our property). There was a clearing where there was a row of trees, and then a big open swamp. We heard a gun shot and didn't know where it came from. We had earlier saw a doe run in front of us and into the swamp. When we heard the shot I yelled out "who the **** is shooting?" Right after the first shot there was another one..........this time the doe was 20' away from me. My sister pointed out the neighbor in the tree stand along the property line, directly across from me.......Oh man I got mad then, he was obviously not looking beyond the deer, I was standing right there (with plenty of orange on). I started yelling at him about shooting deer on our property and not looking beyond the target......... he started to argue at first... till he realized, he came so close to shooting me.......... then he apologized so profusely. He missed on the second shot so who knows where the bullet went, thankfully not into me or my sister! His reasoning was that he thought he knew where we were cause he sees our lights in the morning... and I told him, that doesn't mean we stay in our stands or same spots all day! He said he's learned his lesson. I hope so! Later I tracked the blood to where he shot the deer the first time, and that was safe enough, it was almost straight down...... but.when I stood where the deer was, and looked to where he was in relation to me.......... man that second shot was a close call.
Needless to say this has been an eventful season. I've seen way more deer than I have in years. I finally got a shot at a nice doe tonight and my sister connected on 2 doe the two days prior.
Please be safe out there!
I definitely make sure she is dry and done preening before she goes back outside.
