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How close to the road can you hunt?? #881980 09/02/09 04:08 PM
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I can't seem to find any distance regulations for how far from a road you have to be in order to discharge a weapon. All i can find is you can't shoot across the road. Any one know how far you have to be, if any?


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: dsw1000] #882022 09/02/09 04:23 PM
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I don't think it matters.


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As long as you don't fire across.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: cbump] #882037 09/02/09 04:26 PM
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It does matter. And it depends on what type of road. Most are 1,000 feet. Check your regulations or call the local GW



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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: mulie_mike] #882047 09/02/09 04:29 PM
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1000 feet?!? no way! that's a long way. holy cow that will suck.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: dsw1000] #882051 09/02/09 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted By: dsw1000
I can't seem to find any distance regulations for how far from a road you have to be in order to discharge a weapon. All i can find is you can't shoot across the road. Any one know how far you have to be, if any?


Heck I have a deer blind 20 yards from a county road that looks down into a creek bottom 200yards into my place. It is very convenient and helps me not to blow my cover. The walk to the blind is easy and I stay out of the deer habitat. Just my 2cents I have talked to our GW standing right beside my stand and he didnt say anything about it being a problem.




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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: mulie_mike] #882052 09/02/09 04:30 PM
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Well it is definitely not 1000 ft from where I have hunted before or you wouldn't be able to hunt.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: dsw1000] #882269 09/02/09 05:55 PM
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Hell, in East Texas they hunt FROM the road, INSIDE their vehicle!!! grin grin grin rofl


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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: Gunslinger] #882563 09/02/09 07:55 PM
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Ya'll have scendero's we have roads. Same thing right?


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: mulie_mike] #882662 09/02/09 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted By: mulie_mike
It does matter. And it depends on what type of road. Most are 1,000 feet. Check your regulations or call the local GW


Please tell us the source of your info (as I don't want to bother the GW, plus I prefer reading a reg, versus trusting the GW to know every law on the books).



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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: dsw1000] #882667 09/02/09 08:28 PM
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There is no distance restriction unless in a location that is impacted by that new law and it is 150 feet there. Unless you are hunting near a big city then distance should not matter.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: GSS] #882707 09/02/09 08:36 PM
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in the regs. it say's "you can't shoot on or across a public road" it's in the manual.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: fishingmike] #882712 09/02/09 08:38 PM
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No question, but it does not say anything about a distance regulation.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: cbump] #882733 09/02/09 08:44 PM
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if your on YOUR property who are they to tell you where to put a stand, the State of Texas or the county own the Right of Way sometimes in the form of Deed and sometimes in the form of Easement either way if your not on their property, I've heard this before and its simply false...so is the 100 yards off a property line myth...just false...you just cannot have your projectile cross a property line without agreement of adjoining property and i believe that has to be written permission, and I don't think you'll get one from the S of TX



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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: huntindude] #882740 09/02/09 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted By: fishindude
Ya'll have scendero's we have roads. Same thing right?


A "sendero" is a Spanish word for a dry wash, or Arroyio, not a road!

Firearms and roads in Texas the rule is you cannot fire a firearm from the right-of-way of a public road, or fire across the right-of-way of a public road, or shoot an animal in the right-of-way of a public road!

The dirt roads on private property are not included in this rule! Unless the land owner places a restriction you may fire across the jeep trails (dirt roads) on private property!



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I thought it used to be 150 feet.... but it's been a while since I passed a penal code test...


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: MacD37] #882807 09/02/09 09:03 PM
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go to www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/ at the top go to regulations
you should find what you are looking for there.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: fishingmike] #882831 09/02/09 09:09 PM
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It is not in there b/c there is no set distance or in a way it is in there in that it is not in there. Only law TPWD has is don't shoot from or across a public right-of-way.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: Txduckman] #883005 09/02/09 10:25 PM
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no law that im aware of, ive killed plenty hogs and a few yotes right after pullin up to the gate. that, and if it was a 1000 ft, i couldnt shoot any gun on my back porch, which is not true....


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: Gunslinger] #883008 09/02/09 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted By: Gunslinger
Hell, in East Texas they hunt FROM the road, INSIDE their vehicle!!! grin grin grin rofl


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i don't deer hunt near a road but when I'm dove hunting I'm pretty close.


Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: Gunslinger] #883203 09/03/09 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted By: Gunslinger
Hell, in East Texas they hunt FROM the road, INSIDE their vehicle!!! grin grin grin rofl


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Re: How close to the road can you hunt?? [Re: RKHarm24] #883778 09/03/09 12:39 PM
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I spoke to a sheriff a couple of years ago and he told me it was either 50 or 100 yards from a structure and that a developed road was considered a structure.

I think common sence will tell you if you should hunt there. It will also tell you if you will get in trouble for it.


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Originally Posted By: stinkbelly
I spoke to a sheriff a couple of years ago and he told me it was either 50 or 100 yards from a structure and that a developed road was considered a structure.

I think common sence will tell you if you should hunt there. It will also tell you if you will get in trouble for it.


I think your sheriff needs to go back to law school.....could a deer stand be determined a developed structure? what about a water tower, or an electric ROW, or a Pipeline, or...or ...or...



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Ya'll have scendero's we have roads. Same thing right?


A "sendero" is a Spanish word for a dry wash, or Arroyio, not a road!

Firearms and roads in Texas the rule is you cannot fire a firearm from the right-of-way of a public road, or fire across the right-of-way of a public road, or shoot an animal in the right-of-way of a public road!

The dirt roads on private property are not included in this rule! Unless the land owner places a restriction you may fire across the jeep trails (dirt roads) on private property!




Sendero is "path" or "trail"


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