gunshots during bow season?

C.Alls said:

I shoot on MY PROPERTY year round. If I have a load I want to ladder or just shoot on MY range for practice I'll do so and don't really care what season is in. It's always struck a nerve with me when deer hunters or any hunters for that matter think the woods are off limits to others during any season. I still ride my dirt bike on my property and other public land as well.

I've also been in my stand many times and had a deer coming into my sights and have a neighbor shooting on his property and the deer didn't pay any attention and I was/am still successful. Anytime I hear someone practicing their rights it makes me feel proud of where I live.

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Yup. Just because you hear a gun shot doesnt mean someone is shooting a deer. I think when you are sitting in your treestand at the end of the day and hear a gunshot you automatically think someone is shooting a deer. Not so. I would never get pissed when I hear a gunshot. That is what screaming anti-gun libs do. Nothing wrong with someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights. We as a group should not get pissed and "assume" someone is breaking a law.....

bigdv said:

Yup. Just because you hear a gun shot doesnt mean someone is shooting a deer. I think when you are sitting in your treestand at the end of the day and hear a gunshot you automatically think someone is shooting a deer. Not so. I would never get pissed when I hear a gunshot. That is what screaming anti-gun libs do. Nothing wrong with someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights. We as a group should not get pissed and "assume" someone is breaking a law.....

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My hunting property is by some noisy neighbors...they are clanging around, running weedeaters, shooting guns, yapping...etc. it used to get me aggravated and I thought deer wouldnt come into the property. BUT I started watching the deer and sometimes elk or moose...they would look towards where the noise was but they could care less...and feed through or head to the water hole/spring that runs year round on my property. Only if I made noise in the blind would the deer and other animals alert and take off...

At agc, I've seen them grazing on the 200 yd range during a match. 40-50 rounds a minute flying over their heads and they didn't give a crap.

Rob.

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rob said:

At agc, I've seen them grazing on the 200 yd range during a match. 40-50 rounds a minute flying over their heads and they didn't give a crap.

Rob.

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I'm surprised they weren't busted by an RSO for failure to display a badge, and summarily escorted off the property.

bigdv said:

Yup. Just because you hear a gun shot doesnt mean someone is shooting a deer. I think when you are sitting in your treestand at the end of the day and hear a gunshot you automatically think someone is shooting a deer. Not so. I would never get pissed when I hear a gunshot. That is what screaming anti-gun libs do. Nothing wrong with someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights. We as a group should not get pissed and "assume" someone is breaking a law.....

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Yeah, the spirit of this thread is lost. I don't get mad when people shoot and use there rights. When I hear a single gun shot at dawn I don't think they are at a range practicing. When you feed deer all year long and put work into your property the first thing you think when someone makes a single shot nearby you automatically think, welp, there goes one more I was feeding. The whole getting mad because people are exercising their gun rights is a complete 180 of what I've been talking about. You should run for office.

MunkMaster said:

Yeah, the spirit of this thread is lost. I don't get mad when people shoot and use there rights. When I hear a single gun shot at dawn I don't think they are at a range practicing. When you feed deer all year long and put work into your property the first thing you think when someone makes a single shot nearby you automatically think, welp, there goes one more I was feeding. The whole getting mad because people are exercising their gun rights is a complete 180 of what I've been talking about.

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I dont think its really that critical in MD...they are very abundant. We only get ONE tag in Idaho so count yourselves lucky you can get multiple tags there...just saying

Gunshots is the sound of freedom. You think the deer care one bit? This is Fudd thinking for sure.

Dude posted this to facebook about a local fish & game that runs sporting clays almost year around on Saturdays.
"Worst game club ever. No respect for any fishers and hunters not in their club. Have all year to shoot theirs gun and they wait till day break on opening day of archery to do skeet/shotgun shooting. Like seriously you can't wait one more day to shoot, when hunting isn't allowed?"
Always something!

wilcam47 said:

My hunting property is by some noisy neighbors...they are clanging around, running weedeaters, shooting guns, yapping...etc. it used to get me aggravated and I thought deer wouldnt come into the property. BUT I started watching the deer and sometimes elk or moose...they would look towards where the noise was but they could care less...and feed through or head to the water hole/spring that runs year round on my property. Only if I made noise in the blind would the deer and other animals alert and take off...

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They get used to it.

I have had horse riders push deer away from me a couple of times. The once...meh. Public land, my bad luck they wanted to ride a trail near me. The other time, yeah it was a trail about 100yds away, but it did really piss me off because it was three riders with two dogs running along with them yelling back and forth to each other even though they were riding about 5 yds apart. I could hear them a few hundred yards away (and did push a big doe out of bedding 75yds from my stand and not towards me).

A little while later a guy was jogging the pipeline 50yds from me with his dog, also not on a leash.

In both cases I could hear both sets yelling at their dogs to stop chasing deer. I know hunting with dogs is illegal, but isn’t harassing them also illegal (IE if your dog is, it should be leashed)? The horseback riders were annoying on their own, but the unleashed dogs and people not keeping them under control while they were chasing deer all over the place did really get my blood boiling (I heard both sets several times yell at their dogs to leave deer alone and to come back).

RwWilly said:

Dude posted this to facebook about a local fish & game that runs sporting clays almost year around on Saturdays.
"Worst game club ever. No respect for any fishers and hunters not in their club. Have all year to shoot theirs gun and they wait till day break on opening day of archery to do skeet/shotgun shooting. Like seriously you can't wait one more day to shoot, when hunting isn't allowed?"
Always something!

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The day break thing would make me mad. I am all about having fun shooting on your property, but I do think it is disrespectful to do it early in the day unless there is a good reason you can’t do it later. I don’t mean like “wait till at least noon”, but I’ve been around places where someone was obviously out target shooting half an hour after sun up. 7:30am and plenty of people are still sleeping.

Get a suppressor or just wait till like 9 or so when pretty much anyone who isn’t sick or works night shift would be awake.

A shot early in the morning, even if it wakes me up doesn’t bother me.

lazarus said:

The day break thing would make me mad. I am all about having fun shooting on your property, but I do think it is disrespectful to do it early in the day unless there is a good reason you can’t do it later. I don’t mean like “wait till at least noon”, but I’ve been around places where someone was obviously out target shooting half an hour after sun up. 7:30am and plenty of people are still sleeping.

Get a suppressor or just wait till like 9 or so when pretty much anyone who isn’t sick or works night shift would be awake.

A shot early in the morning, even if it wakes me up doesn’t bother me.

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Ive had the one neighbor start clanging around and being loud, yelling at kids at the "Deer thirty" hour...Its almost dark and then they decide to make the most noise. I know it was on purpose, I wanted to go over there and tell him that the deer dont give a crap you are making all that noise but I would get more aggravated than the deer I was trying to shoot

To me it is less about the deer and more just being a decent neighbor. I don’t know many people who like getting woken up by noisy neighbors. I keep my stuff down till about 9am and cut it off by 10pm unless it is impossible not to.

not gun shots, but last night fox vs small dog vs cat vs human. sounded like that at least. something may have died, cause it was crazy. was about to start packing up anyway but that did it.

How about when our loved ones call us on the cellie in waning moments of evening prime time thinking we are already back at the truck. They stand in the kitchen and look out the window an see darkness. My wife knows better, but there are some people...

To a certain extent, noise just what some people in general will do with little or no regard for others. For example, I was camping at Killen Ponds a few weeks back. Quiet time is 10 pm to 7 am. Around 5:30 am, I start hearing banging and clanging, then a big, gruff voice first talking loud to someone else talking somewhat loud, then yelling at kids. The kids were also making noise, but frankly, they weren't too bad and I could'a just went back off to sleep. But the noisey adults were way louder....and they weren't even right next door At one point, so loud I thought they may be arguing, but after listening a bit, they were just conversing LOUDLY. It wasn't even near daylight yet.

I've heard shooting on farms near somewhere I was hunting before and it was the guys with the permits. In one case, I was even able to talk to a man and his (grown) son as to why the shooting. The only thing that pissed me off about it at that point was they claimed to have left a dozen in the field. Hell, send 'em over to one of the food banks or something....don't just waste it.

If shooting rankles you, it has also rankled me when dogs where out chasing deer all over the place. I have hunted farms where the farmer wanted you to kill any dogs on sight if they are out in groups chasing deer or any live stock since there was some problems with feral dogs. More than once, however, I have seen dogs with collars out chasing deer (and I am excluding King George Va where it was legal to run deer with dogs as a hunting technique). While it was somewhat tempting to 'fix' some of those problems, I am a dog lover and just can't bring myself to do so even with the feral dogs. It does, however, really piss me when someone was letting their domestic dogs just run like that. Saw three deer cross on of my shooting lanes on the run in one particular case, then saw a collared Beagle looking dog (could'a also been a Basset or Foxhound or similar....ran across pretty quickly and high grass made it difficult to see it's legs and lower body for a good ID) come running behind perhaps a minute later. FYI, I've never seen rabbit there and no one in that club hunts with dogs....nor did I know of anyone on the immediate neighboring hunting leases who hunt with dogs. (There are some farmhouses not too far away 1/2 mile or little more). In short, I think a local just let their dog run. Good way to lose your dog permanently if they run across in front of the wrong hunter.

outrider58 said:

How about when our loved ones call us on the cellie in waning moments of evening prime time thinking we are already back at the truck. They stand in the kitchen and look out the window an see darkness. My wife knows better, but there are some people...

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Not usually a problem for me with my wife, either. But I do keep the volume off or at least on vibrate 'cause I had others call me while on stand. Until retired, I was an IT guy who was 'on call' almost all the time.

When my son was a young teen, one time when we were hunting, I kept thinking I heard music....then realized he had ear buds in his ear from either his ipod or phone. Like I told him when I 'lectured' him about it, if I, with my poor hearing, could hear that, then a deer could hear it for quite a ways.

lazarus said:

The day break thing would make me mad. I am all about having fun shooting on your property, but I do think it is disrespectful to do it early in the day unless there is a good reason you can’t do it later. I don’t mean like “wait till at least noon”, but I’ve been around places where someone was obviously out target shooting half an hour after sun up. 7:30am and plenty of people are still sleeping.

Get a suppressor or just wait till like 9 or so when pretty much anyone who isn’t sick or works night shift would be awake.

A shot early in the morning, even if it wakes me up doesn’t bother me.

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Sporting clays start @ 0900! Later in a reply to the post he stated he had shot falling down around him. Like I said, the club does clays almost every Saturday. He should know.

RwWilly said:

Sporting clays start @ 0900! Later in a reply to the post he stated he had shot falling down around him. Like I said, the club does clays almost every Saturday. He should know.

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Legal quite time is 9 am. I know when I am at the range nothing can start until then. But tell that to all the planes being worked on at 2 in the morning running full throttle for an hour.

If you have reason to believe someone is poaching call the DNR, it's their job.
http://dnr.maryland.gov/huntersguide/Pages/poacher.aspx

MunkMaster said:

Yeah, the spirit of this thread is lost. I don't get mad when people shoot and use there rights. When I hear a single gun shot at dawn I don't think they are at a range practicing. When you feed deer all year long and put work into your property the first thing you think when someone makes a single shot nearby you automatically think, welp, there goes one more I was feeding. The whole getting mad because people are exercising their gun rights is a complete 180 of what I've been talking about. You should run for office.

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