If I were you, I'd make damn sure you're high up in a stand, shooting at a relatively sharp angle on 9 acres. True story in Georgia. Hunter, on the ground, shoots at deer level with him 100 yards away. Misses. Bullet travels about a mile and hits an old man in the butt, who was bending over hoeing his cabbage. Long story short. Deputy Sheriff tracks down hunter. Hunter arrested. Hunter sued. Nice settlement for an old man with a sore butt.
I'm calling BS on that. Unless the guy had his rifle sighted in to hit 90 feet high at 100 yards.
How long you been hunting? He was hunting
on a plateau, the bullet traveled past the deer, off the plateau, down into a valley where the old black man was hit in his butt while bending over. A high powered bullet, like a 30/06, can go a long ways if it's not obstructed. You see, sir, that's why they have backstops at firing ranges.
