The guy next door to me has 10 acres of woodlands and pasture...
yesterday, I heard gunfire.
So I went out on my deck to see what the commotion was about and I heard him and his two sons, one around 18 the other is around 20 talking in the distance, then firing and firing and firing of their guns, then shoutings of joy when they hit their targets.... they sounded like rifles to me.
Being mostly a "city/suberbs" girl and never really living in "Rural", I was surprised by this shooting session taking place next door....at least at first.....
Then later the sound of them practicing hitting their targets started to soothe me....I think I was looking around at all the woods and thought...if something ever happened where we were cut off from the grocery store food, my neighbor and his sons could keep matt and me alive with food that they shoot.....
Then I thought that it was very responsible for my neighbor to spend time with his boys to practice their shots and learn about the guns they were using....his boys live down the street with their mother, not with him, but are always over at his house....more than their mom's it seems..... (mom and dad are divorced, but still friends).
Anyway, this morning I awoke with the sun because of my cat insisting on getting some food....I fed her and then let her go out on the deck....when I let her out there I usually leave the back door opened a crack so she can run inside if she gets spooked.....she is still a little scared of this NEW place and she did not go out all winter because of the cold so it is all still unfamiliar to her and she is not king of this castle yet....she is still wimpy, a real scaredy cat.....
Well, I saw her run to the door and crouch down...I ran to the back door and saw nothing, so then I ran to the side windows and low and behold coming out of my property's woodsy area just 50 yards at the most from the house was a coyote or a big ass fox, it crossed the dirt road and went in to the pasture across the way and then in to the woods on the other side of the pasture.
I thought, gees, I need to get to know Dave, my neighbor, a little bit better and have him teach me how to use a handgun and a rifle and a shotgun.
I could never kill one of these beauties of the wild, but if anyone of those foxes or coyotes or a bear ever attacked my cat, I could kill them or scare them away at least with my gun....
And then the experience of yesterday with all the noise of the gunfire from practice at my neighbor's house became even more comforting to me this morning.
NOW, here is my question.....
Can anyone use their own guns on their own property at any time if it is a Rural district?
And good morning to all!
Care
yesterday, I heard gunfire.
So I went out on my deck to see what the commotion was about and I heard him and his two sons, one around 18 the other is around 20 talking in the distance, then firing and firing and firing of their guns, then shoutings of joy when they hit their targets.... they sounded like rifles to me.
Being mostly a "city/suberbs" girl and never really living in "Rural", I was surprised by this shooting session taking place next door....at least at first.....
Then later the sound of them practicing hitting their targets started to soothe me....I think I was looking around at all the woods and thought...if something ever happened where we were cut off from the grocery store food, my neighbor and his sons could keep matt and me alive with food that they shoot.....
Then I thought that it was very responsible for my neighbor to spend time with his boys to practice their shots and learn about the guns they were using....his boys live down the street with their mother, not with him, but are always over at his house....more than their mom's it seems..... (mom and dad are divorced, but still friends).
Anyway, this morning I awoke with the sun because of my cat insisting on getting some food....I fed her and then let her go out on the deck....when I let her out there I usually leave the back door opened a crack so she can run inside if she gets spooked.....she is still a little scared of this NEW place and she did not go out all winter because of the cold so it is all still unfamiliar to her and she is not king of this castle yet....she is still wimpy, a real scaredy cat.....
Well, I saw her run to the door and crouch down...I ran to the back door and saw nothing, so then I ran to the side windows and low and behold coming out of my property's woodsy area just 50 yards at the most from the house was a coyote or a big ass fox, it crossed the dirt road and went in to the pasture across the way and then in to the woods on the other side of the pasture.
I thought, gees, I need to get to know Dave, my neighbor, a little bit better and have him teach me how to use a handgun and a rifle and a shotgun.
I could never kill one of these beauties of the wild, but if anyone of those foxes or coyotes or a bear ever attacked my cat, I could kill them or scare them away at least with my gun....
And then the experience of yesterday with all the noise of the gunfire from practice at my neighbor's house became even more comforting to me this morning.
NOW, here is my question.....
Can anyone use their own guns on their own property at any time if it is a Rural district?
And good morning to all!
Care
