You generally must hunt so many feet from a public road, and you can't shoot
across a road for obvious safety reasons. Check with your state
environmental agency or whoever issues the hunting licenses.

In hunter safety class they show pictures of what happens when some idiot
shot across a road & hit a car by accident. Not a pretty sight (12ga slug in
the head).

Tony

"RogerN" wrote in message
nk.net...

Are there laws as to how far you must be from a road to shoot a gun? A
neighbor said you are not supposed to shoot within 500 feet of a road.
The
reason I'm asking is because I have ~4.5 acres but it is all frontage. If
I
stand close to the road, I can shoot away from the road which seems safer
than being away from the road and having to shoot toward the road.
Shooting
parallel to the road puts the aim in the direction of houses down the road
either way. In my situation, the safest seems to be standing near the
road
and shooting away from the road with miles of fields behind the target and
backstop.

I'm in Illinois and have googled for state and federal laws, so far I have
only found that you must not shoot within 1000 feet of schools, etc.
Haven't found anything saying you must be 500 ft away from the road.

Thanks!