Warning: No Hunting within 100 Feet of Trail

Gun Safety in ActionWent for a wonderful hike over the weekend with a friend in a state park.  It’s a really nice park with well-maintained, well-used hiking trails.

And it was comforting to note that they take visitor safety seriously, as shown by this sign at the trail head:

NO HUNTING WITHIN 100 FEET OF TRAIL

Surely one hundred feet is a more than adequate safety margin for hunting around hikers.  After all, how far could a bullet possibly travel?

Well, that’s where there might be a problem.  A bullet fired from an average deer-hunting rifle, say a 30-06, has a maximum range of 5,675 yards–or 3.22 miles.

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