how far do i need to be?

[brooksie]

What distance from a permanent residence do you need to be to legally fire a gun during hunting season? 200 feet?

[chuckinduck]

450 feet from any road or occuppied dwelling WITHOUT PERMISSION is the verbage I believe they use.

[Big Frank 25]

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10363-71467--,00.html

[part timer]

450 feet from any road or occuppied dwelling WITHOUT PERMISSION is the verbage I believe they use.

Interestingly the 450 foot rule doesn't apply to roadways. Seems odd but those are the rules.

[brooksie]

Thanks PT/BF25/CD...found the link. Fast responses - 450 feet it is. :)

Brooksie

[hunting man]

450 if you dont have permission to hunt inside the safety zone. If you have permission to hunt there. I think you could sit right next to the house and hunt.

450 feet from a road would cripple most of the state land warriors. They get less than that off into the woods. Some must sit so they can see their vehicle as they hunt.

[gman12]

Non hunting (target shooting) there is no safety zone. Go figure! Gun or Bow, the 450' rule includes archery hunting.

[Huntinman225]

450 feet from a road would cripple most of the state land warriors. They get less than that off into the woods. Some must sit so they can see their vehicle as they hunt.

Isn't that the truth:lol: :lol:

[chuckinduck]

In college I had two police officers from my hometown make me lay on the ground at gunpoint when I was target shooting w/ my 22 LR on gravel pit property I had written permission to hunt on. I was never so scared in all of my life. They said I was tresspassing, which was false. I tell you, you can't imagine what scared is until you have two officers walk up to you with their guns drawn.

[hunting man]

I know about having the police pull their rifles shotguns and side arms on you. Had it happen in a vehicle once in Saline Mi.

We were headed to Wamplers lake up US-12 in a VW beetle. Just as we passed through Saline. We came up to a police road block with a long line of cars backed up. The police were waving everyone right through till we got to them. Then they all aimed their firearms at us and made us get out and lay down on the road as they searched us down. Someone had robbed a bank and the getaway car happened to be a VW beetle. :yikes: :yikes:

[SHANK]

Interestingly the 450 foot rule doesn't apply to roadways. Seems odd but those are the rules.

That brings up something else of interest. A while back, Boehr mentioned that it's legal to shoot across a road. :dizzy: Some of these laws are incredible.

As far as the legal distance you can shoot from a residence...I can understand the firearm issue as far as noise is concerned but for archery? I have some prime hunting spots within 200 yds of a house that I can't use. Doesn't make much sense to me.

[boehr]

I agree with you, doesn't make sense, shooting across the road, down the road or bow hunting within that distance. I have argued the point even with the state attorney generals office but that is how the legislature wrote the law and the legislature is the only one that can change it.

[SHANK]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say:

If some of these laws made more sense, compliance would go up...

Some of the laws I've broken:

Salt blocks in July
Laying a loaded shotgun in the back of my truck bed during lunch
Plowing my driveway with my ATV without a helmet

All innocent mistakes made before I was aware of the law. One of these days I'm gonna get busted, I just know it! :(

Sorry to hijack the thread guys...

[part timer]

As far as the legal distance you can shoot from a residence...I can understand the firearm issue as far as noise is concerned but for archery? I have some prime hunting spots within 200 yds of a house that I can't use. Doesn't make much sense to me.

You can hunt within the 450 foot range if you have permission from the owner/occupant of the dwelling.

[yooperkenny]

You can hunt within the 450 foot range if you have permission from the owner/occupant of the dwelling.

If I recall correctly, at one point Boehr confirmed that you could actually hunt legally from inside the building (with permission). That's what some folks up here call "huntin' from the big blind"! :lol:

[jeb]

One year I was hunting just off M21 near Seranic. Comming up from the river to the road for lunch and a DNR person was talking to the land owner. I unloaded my gun and started walking back to camp when a buck came out of the brush and cross the road just yards from me. The officer was about 50 yards behind me, and when the deer was 20 feet off the road the officer started shooting at it with his hand gun. :dizzy: I hit the ground and when the shooting stopped, the DNR officer ask why I had not fired my gun. :yikes: The law says on the road right away your gun is to be unloaded. This is what I was told and the officer laught but I was told later by the land owner that if I would have shot that deer the officer would have hauled me in. I know this is not what the thread is totaly about but some times you just do not know what to do.:lol:

[boehr]

Well my cousins friend told his neighbor's son's girlfriend....yes this thread has gotten off track so let us get back on track.