waterfowl hunting near homes

[gilroym]

Yeah I've looked on Thurston Co. website and the City of Yelm's website. No clear cut answers, I figure I'll call the sheriffs office and see If I can get any info. I highlighted the area where I plan to hunt. Thanks for the help guys!!

If you call the sheriff make sure to get what codes they reference. I did this in Puyallup when the sheriffs office said I couldn't shoot my bow in unincorporated pierce county. The County code they referenced was no shooting in rec. parks they had no idea what the actual legality was of shooting in my back yard.

[Bill W]

Another way would be to duck hunt there on the opener.  I'm sure you would have the answer in about 30 minutes after the first shot.

[Badhabit]

Make sure you take the shortest barreled 3.5" shotgun you own and shoot 3.5" shells. I don't think a shotgun can give a report any louder that 24" barrel. Bell ringer if you ask me.

[Curly]

Yeah I've looked on Thurston Co. website and the City of Yelm's website. No clear cut answers, I figure I'll call the sheriffs office and see If I can get any info. I highlighted the area where I plan to hunt. Thanks for the help guys!!

That is a no shooting zone.  http://www.geodata.org/website/cadastral/viewer.htm

Turn on the "No Shooting Zone" layer and you'll see all of the lake is listed as no shooting.

Zone name =LAWRENCE LAKE   Established date=10-07-1980       No Shooting Areas - No Exceptions   10.04.240

[WSU]

Easy answer: no shooting zone.

http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/sheriff/docs/ShootingZones20090818.pdf

[BigGoonTuna]

a little helpful hint, every "major"(aka accessable by the public) lake in thurston county is in a no shooting zone(well, except alder if you can count that).

i live in rainier, and i've looked into it.  i hear lots of blasting away from my place in town, almost every day.  lots of little lakes outside the no shooting zones, but most are on ft lewis or private land and aren't accessible.  thurston county isn't very friendly to hunting overall.

[h2ofowlr]

Easy answer: no shooting zone.

http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/sheriff/docs/ShootingZones20090818.pdf

Page 32 shows this as a no shooting all around the shores of the lake.  Looks like your out of luck on this one unless archery falls outside the written shooting restrictions they have.

[Bomber52]

Thanks for the info guys looks like I'm out of luck hunting on Lawrence I guess i'll just have to hunt on JBLM.

[BigGoonTuna]

took the boat out to lawrence the other day to do some fishing, past a guy with a brand new looking duck boat coming out of the parking lot without any water dripping off, looks like he must have saw the "no shooting" sign that was posted down at the launch.

bummer deal, tons of birds flying out there.

[sakoshooter]

I heard the rule concerning shooting near "occupied dwellings" from a judge in a court room a few years back. He read - ' Shooting toward an occupied dwelling within 500' was illegal. Occupied includes people or domestic animals inside.' Pretty stupid rule if you consider rifles are included in this rule.