Distance Regulation

[Tealer]

Where are you finding these distance regulations at?  Please list your sources and which jurisdiction these numbers are relevant to.

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

[Tealer]

Where are you finding these distance regulations at?  Please list your sources and which jurisdiction these numbers are relevant to.

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

[Tealer]

Where are you finding these distance regulations at?  Please list your sources and which jurisdiction these numbers are relevant to.

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

[lokidog]

It can be a county regulation.  Where I'm at you have to be 200 ft from a structure without needing owner permission to discharge a firearm (unless it is not normally occupied).

Something like this has always been my understanding as well.  If you have permission, you can shoot from the deck while sipping your latte.   

[huntingfool7]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find the regulation on how far you have to be from structures and roads to hunt.  I thought it was 300 yards but I can't find that anywhere.  Can you guys send the reference?

Thanks!

Curtis

I think it's something between 150 -200 yards from public roads.

50'

Tealer 50', means 50 feet.  Did the warden say 50 feet or 50 yards?  Is this a county wide law or municipal code?

[Bob33]

There is no explicit distance with regards to state law. You must be off the "maintained portion".

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=77.15.460

(2) A person is guilty of unlawful use of a loaded firearm if:

(a) The person negligently discharges a firearm from, across, or along the maintained portion of a public highway."

[Tealer]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find the regulation on how far you have to be from structures and roads to hunt.  I thought it was 300 yards but I can't find that anywhere.  Can you guys send the reference?

Thanks!

Curtis

I think it's something between 150 -200 yards from public roads.

50'

Tealer 50', means 50 feet.  Did the warden say 50 feet or 50 yards?  Is this a county wide law or municipal code?

I'm aware that 50' means 50 feet. I didn't ask if it was county or state or code.

[huntingfool7]

Not trying to question your knowledge bowl or start a pissing match.  In one post you reference feet, in the next you reference yards.  I'd like to know if the rule is 50 feet down there or 50 yards.  Seems strange that a warden couldn't estimate the difference between 50' and 150' and shot you with a laser range finder. 

So was the warden checking you for 50 feet off the road or 50 yards?

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

[Bob33]

Not trying to question your knowledge bowl or start a pissing match.  In one post you reference feet, in the next you reference yards.  I'd like to know if the rule is 50 feet down there or 50 yards.  Seems strange that a warden couldn't estimate the difference between 50' and 150' and shot you with a laser range finder. 

So was the warden checking you for 50 feet off the road or 50 yards?

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

If I had the concerns that you do about local regulations, I'd contact the local authorities directly.

[Mike450r]

The regs used to say 50' from the road but it has been years since that was in the regs.

[Tealer]

Not trying to question your knowledge bowl or start a pissing match.  In one post you reference feet, in the next you reference yards.  I'd like to know if the rule is 50 feet down there or 50 yards.  Seems strange that a warden couldn't estimate the difference between 50' and 150' and shot you with a laser range finder. 

So was the warden checking you for 50 feet off the road or 50 yards?

Warden while hunting just out of South Bend WA. Stopped along 101 to check us we were 54yds of the freeway (on a laser range finder) the blinds there are less then a 100 yds from 101.

We were hunting 54yds from the road, again on a range finder. I carry the range finder in EVERY hunt.

The warden when he checked us said all we needed to be was 50'. That's fifty feet. Not yards. As long as you weren't shooting towards the road.

We were checked because a birder called us in for hunting. I had a crane decoy outside the spread they were taking pics of.


I have also been checked on the east side of the mountains were we were hunting from the dike the road is on. Less the 25' off a country road, gravel, no lines. No issues.

[sakoshooter]

There is no regulation like that in Washington state.  As long as you are not shooting from the maintained portion of the roadway Negligently and you are not doing anything unsafe you are legal.

[huntingfool7]

There is no regulation like that in Washington state.  As long as you are not shooting from the maintained portion of the roadway and you are not doing anything unsafe you are legal. 

Since my post has been "quoted" twice in this thread with a change I didn't make.  What is the difference between Negligently and unsafe?

I'm fine with being corrected if I'm wrong or misleading.  I'm not OK with being misquoted. 

[bobcat]

I'm not sure there's a difference between "unsafe" and "negligent" but what you wrote just doesn't sound correct.

If you had said "As long as you are not shooting unsafely from the maintained portion of a road" that would have been better.

I read your statement to mean that it's absolutely not legal to shoot from the maintained portion of a roadway.

[huntingfool7]

Thanks Bobcat.  Point taken and appreciated.

Poorly worded statement.