Johnny LaRue
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Hunting laws
Had a slightly disturbing happening here this morning.
Lately there's been a lot of hunting trucks going up and down my road, which is not unusual, but this morning one went by with the dogs standing in the back, not in the box, so figured someone was serious, commented to the wife for us to keep an eye out lest the ducks get eaten. Sure enough an hour later I heard barking and yelping just outside, so I dash out and quickly lock the ducks in the coop.
Sounds like an inoshishi doing ferocious battle with some dogs. No sooner do I turn around and the melee is just on the other side of our wall, behind the duck coop. Jump on the wall and it's two hounds on a doe suffocating the life out of her while she makes all kinds of hideous noises. The hunter appears and tries to get the dogs off the deer. So I make my plea to be careful round here cause we have livestock and children.
Everything I say is met with an "Eh?!" OK this guy is busy, old, and probably doesn't hear too well anyway. Try again, "Eh?!" So I wave my hand at him a little too brusquely in a fuggetaboutit kind of way. This while he's coming out of his truck with his carbine. Later I realize he took this for a "don't shoot that thing around here" gesture. After all we are 15-20 meters from my living room window. So he proceeds to bash the doe in the skull with a rock to finish the job.
This all didn't disturb me too much. My freezer is full of venison gifts. What bothers me is had the deer gone on my side of the wall this all would have gone down in my yard. I just hope the guy wouldn't have discharged his weapon that close as well.
Lot's of what if's. Like what if my 3 1/2 year old son was feeding the ducks while I was chopping wood out of sight, and this melee came tearing into the yard. My aquaintance lost a goat to hunting dogs last year.
Well nothing bad really came of it. And hopefully the hunters got my idea. What I want to know is what are the laws of discharging a firearm in proximity to homes? Any ideas?
Last year a guy rang my bell early on Sunday morning to ask my permission to shoot from the road, a deer high up on a ridge and away from my house, all in all about 100 meters away. I thanked him for asking and said fire away!
Last edited by Johnny LaRue, 1/28/2009, 11:43 pm
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1/28/2009, 11:04 pm
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