Shooting Distances

[ChuckN]

I don't know about owning to the middle of a road, I've never heard of it (and I live in a township).

The key word is "not posted" in the law below.

Exceptions (to trespassing)
• A person on foot may, without permission, enter land that is not
posted to retrieve a wounded animal that was lawfully shot, but
may not remain on the land after being told to leave.
• A person on foot may, without permission, enter private land
without a firearm to retrieve a hunting dog. After retrieving the
dog, the person must immediately leave the premises. This exception
does not authorize the taking of the wild animal.

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/rlp/regulations/hunting/trespass.pdf

[Guest]

I live along a road that is under construction.We do NOT "own" that land. The county, State, township can do whatever they want whenever they want, snomobiles, ATV's can drive ON OUR LAWN as long as they are within the right of way and there is NOTHING we can do to stop them. It IS NOT tresspassing to hunt a ditch for pheasants, geese, ducks or whetever in Minnesota. Some landowners are dead wrong that they own to the centerline and control it. They DO NOT. You can access lakes, rivers sloughs as long as the water or aquatic vegitation is within the right of way and there is NOTHING that a landowner can do to stop you.

I knew you could hunt from a roadway for waterfowl, but could not find it in this years regs. It was there last year.

[This message has been edited by Tom Herman (edited 10-01-2004).]

[FOOT]

Nitebiter & BarTender are correct in their statements about hunting ditches and right-of-way. I know it sounds goofy that you can shoot waterfowl from a road but its true.
The only thing I disagree with is Nitebiter's statement about hunting ditches being "slob hunting" If you've ever hunted SE or SW MN you would realize that sometimes that is the only place you can hunt. It ain't perfect and you need to be VERY VERY careful.

[Nitebiter]

How can hunting a ditch be your only option?? Theres plenty of public land and theres lots of people that are more than happy to let you hunt on their land.. all you gotta do is ask.. people say its soo hard to get on land, but ive never had a problem ANYWHERE ive gone, worst thing they can do is turn ya down so just keep asking.. and dont tell me its hard to get on land around the metro too.. i was in chaska for 2 days in the early season this year and picked up just over 800 acres of prime goose fields and that was for GUIDING which is 10x harder to get on land as soon as you mention that unless you wanna start tossin around some major cash, i dont even know how many acres i can hunt around home here, its more than i can even count..Ive never paid a dime to hunt and i never will..
decoy hunting is the only way to do it boys, put em in your face FEET DOWN, shoot em in the lips!!!

[This message has been edited by Nitebiter (edited 10-02-2004).]

[Farley]

Here is the question I sent to the DNR:

I was wondering what the laws are for shooting close to roads for
waterfowl.
We want to build a blind on a pond that is fairly close to U.S. Highway
12.
In this instance, how far away from the hwy do we need to be? Also are
the
laws different for different roads like for exapmple gravel roads
compared
to U.S. highways.

Thanks,
Eric Johnson

Here is the reply from Tim Hage:

You have to be off of the road right of way on a federal hwys and state
hwys. county roads you can be in the road right of way as long as the
county does not have any restrictions.

[Nitebiter]

Hmm HWY 28 in POPE county was the hwy in question when i talked to the warden here he said it was ok 100%