So, I have this rifle range in my front yard where everyone in our family does their fun shooting and in the fall we sight in our rifles there. We have a target set up in the middle of the field with a hill as a backstop and little markers at 25 and 50 yards for pistol and small rifle, and then if we stand up against the outbuilding it's 100 yards to the target.
Well, I've been moving out at bit and this summer I'm going to have a rifle that I can really go to town with, so, standing in front of the outbuilding, shooting straight across the 40 to the edge of the wood it's 200 yards and change. (at which range I'm doing 4-6 inch groups prone off a sandbag)
However, if I shot down the length of our road I could get 450 yards.
Now I know your first thought 'this is SO illegal and dangerous it's not even funny'
But actually the legality is only a technicality because here's the thing, our house is at the end of a two mile long back road, that's off another 5 mile long back road.
Now, once you turn onto our gravel road, there's a garage on the corner where a guy builds stock cars because he's far enough out that he won't get noise complaints, there's a vacant house, and then there's an old retired guy who bought an old farmstead and putter on tractors and shoots rifles, then you go down a hill and into a bit of thick woods and swamp and the road turns sharply and goes up to the top of a steep hill, from here it's a straight shot 450 yards to our driveway, which is also the end of the road, except it turns and if you go straight there's a are several small hills where the county dumped the topsoil from when they made the road which is a perfect backstop.
The only entrance onto the entire road from here back is to a hunting camp whose owner is in his eighties and has us check on it once a month because he's disabled and can't drive anymore.
So, my idea is this, I take my truck and park it up on top of the hill and put a target on the dirt mount at the end of the road, then lie in the bed of the truck and shoot down the road. The road is only wide enough for 1 vehicle, the nearest house is 1/2 mile away and there's a forest in the way, and the second nearest house is mine and it's 300 yards north of the line of fire, and according to Google maps there isn't another building or road for over two miles behind the target and I'm shooting downhill anyways. Also, for what it's worth, from where I would be shooting we own the land on both sides of the road as well as beyond the end of the road for about 100 yards
I guess what I'm asking is: Would you do it? Or does the technical legal issue here make this a no-go even if I know I can get away with it?
Well, I've been moving out at bit and this summer I'm going to have a rifle that I can really go to town with, so, standing in front of the outbuilding, shooting straight across the 40 to the edge of the wood it's 200 yards and change. (at which range I'm doing 4-6 inch groups prone off a sandbag)
However, if I shot down the length of our road I could get 450 yards.
Now I know your first thought 'this is SO illegal and dangerous it's not even funny'
But actually the legality is only a technicality because here's the thing, our house is at the end of a two mile long back road, that's off another 5 mile long back road.
Now, once you turn onto our gravel road, there's a garage on the corner where a guy builds stock cars because he's far enough out that he won't get noise complaints, there's a vacant house, and then there's an old retired guy who bought an old farmstead and putter on tractors and shoots rifles, then you go down a hill and into a bit of thick woods and swamp and the road turns sharply and goes up to the top of a steep hill, from here it's a straight shot 450 yards to our driveway, which is also the end of the road, except it turns and if you go straight there's a are several small hills where the county dumped the topsoil from when they made the road which is a perfect backstop.
The only entrance onto the entire road from here back is to a hunting camp whose owner is in his eighties and has us check on it once a month because he's disabled and can't drive anymore.
So, my idea is this, I take my truck and park it up on top of the hill and put a target on the dirt mount at the end of the road, then lie in the bed of the truck and shoot down the road. The road is only wide enough for 1 vehicle, the nearest house is 1/2 mile away and there's a forest in the way, and the second nearest house is mine and it's 300 yards north of the line of fire, and according to Google maps there isn't another building or road for over two miles behind the target and I'm shooting downhill anyways. Also, for what it's worth, from where I would be shooting we own the land on both sides of the road as well as beyond the end of the road for about 100 yards
I guess what I'm asking is: Would you do it? Or does the technical legal issue here make this a no-go even if I know I can get away with it?
