Quote History Quoted:
Again, this not hunting, it's pest eradication. The acreage you mention is for target shooting. Smaller plots, especially if urban, are less likely to be granted kill permits. You have a right to defend or eradicate just use common sense (like ensure your bullet doesn't leave the property). Actually, with suppressors on the rise many land owners prefer this over an arrow. Tracking a wounded deer in a subdivision in lib-land is asking for problems.
View Quote
Ok, so there's a two acre property that I bow hunt that is essentially tucked in the Difficult Run stream valley. Heavily wooded, but definitely surrounded by houses. The houses are all up high, the deer and the shots are down in the valley. Farthest shot would be 60 yards into the earth. Are you saying that it would be legal-- since it's not hunting-- to use firearm? Obviously something that wouldn't attract attentio like suppressed subsonic 300BLK, but this wouldn't be against country firearm discharge laws?
I'm not asking you to be a lawyer, nor am I going to start doing so based on any responses here, BUT, if I should be researching this more thoroughly than I'd love to know. I've sat in my ground blind a million times there watching fat deer walk by just out of bow range thinking, gosh, that deer would be deader than shit if I had a gun. I've gotten plenty there that did come within bow range, but you know what I mean. This family has gotten kill permits in the past. Their horticultural knowledge is amazing.
I did a search for Fairfax County firearm discharge rules and all I can find is the stuff related to hunting.
Thanks!
-Stooxie