Am I going to get in trouble?

[Varmintman]

Because I am a turd more of less I would call the county making sure it is fine to shoot there and then go back. Hopefully the guys would show up again and then you could call the cops for them.

It is always better to be on the right side and it sounds like both of you were on the wrong side.

 

[mcwilcr]

OP:

Nope, you probably won't get in trouble - like has been said, at best you'd get a trespass charge, but that has to come from the landowner.

That being said, I'd like to kick you in the head. Going onto private property without permission to shoot, using a part of that property (I don't care if it WAS dead tree) and then leaving your brass and shells behind, is just plain not cool, and I don't give a flying ____ where you are or if the locals generally care about it or not. It's crap like that that gives outdoorsmen a bad name.

I wouldn't go as far as a head kick but this is something that bothers me quite a bit. My family has property on which we have several small berms set up for shooting at 100, 200, and 500 yards. We regularly allow people to shoot on the property but with two stipulations. Ask for permission before shooting and pick up at least as much as you bring in (We know it is tough to find every piece of brass you drop and some will get left behind).

 

[dfc]

Well what I was doing may have been illegal and I can understand why someone might be concerned. I just live in a rural area and people usually don't care about this. My neighbor used to fire his gun in his back yard and no one cared.

They did seem to enjoy it, though. It's nothing right wing or left wing, it's just a certain type of person. Usually bored, fearful, and has nothing better to do and is incapable of minding their own business. For example, I live on a dirt road that I've driven on 50 million times. In the last couple years, two big housing developments have gone up. Some of the new people drive really slow, and I will sometimes pass them, which is legal to do on the road, and I know where it's safe to do so. Twice, people have then followed me to my house and gotten out of the car to yell at me. One time, it was a woman who was taking her daughter to school. I told her that I am sorry that I scared her, but we are both fine and let's just go on with our lives. She insisted on calling the police and waiting around on my property for an hour for the cops to show up. Meanwhile her daughter is just sitting in her car. I told her "hey you should take your daughter to school and forget about this" but she insisted. Cops told her what I did was legal and she wasn't being smart following someone to their house to confront them.

I would have pressed charges for trespassing.

 

[rexbanner]

I would have pressed charges for trespassing.

That's great, but neither you nor the people who confronted me were the property owners. Also, in my state you have to either post a sign or give someone a warning first, so you couldn't even if you did own the property. So close!

 

[Hopper77]

I would have pressed charges for trespassing.

Hahahaha

 

[trujunglist]

You all are a malicious bunch! It was more or less an accident on OP's part. Nothing happened except for some littering. Maybe OP will rectify that by going back and cleaning up the trash he left + more.

 

[highgravitybacon]

You're probably going to go to jail. They'll deport you. Even if you're not foreign. To a country where you don't speak the language. Like Norway. Then you'll have to serve your time out in a Norwegian prison where they only serve Ikea food. Yes, it's Swedish I realize. But that's part of the punishment.

 

[dfc]

That's great, but neither you nor the people who confronted me were the property owners. Also, in my state you have to either post a sign or give someone a warning first, so you couldn't even if you did own the property. So close!

I was talking about when the woman followed you to your house and refused to leave after calling the cops.

 

[rexbanner]

I was talking about when the woman followed you to your house and refused to leave after calling the cops.

Oh, gotcha. That was just a stupid incident and I really didn't feel like acting like a jerk in front of the woman's young daughter, so I just let her do her thing. Cops told her off anyways.

The other time I passed a car and the guy followed me to my house, things went a bit different. I again apologized and was nice to the dude, and he was a bit angry but seemed to calm down. Then, as he was leaving, he said that if he ever saw me on the road again he was going to get in his car and come "take me out." At that point my switch kinda flipped because no one really appreciates semi-death threats on their front lawn so I told him we were gonna have to throw down now and he bailed. Haven't seen him since.