For someone who understands all the hunting laws in Alabama, one would think you would have known to unload your gun before hunting within 50 yds of a R/R!!!!
You keep stating you were not hunting the day you recieved your ticket. Well I have always been told that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it must be a duck!!!
I hate that you got a ticket but sometimes you have to take responsibilities for your actions. Should have unloaded that gun.
I guess you'll hate it too if you go to Perdido WMA and get your own ticket. If you do as you stated above, that's probably what will happen, and you will be the guilty one instead of Bucky.
The difference in you and him, you will have unloaded your gun 50 yards too late before you get to your truck if it's near a paved road, and your fine will be much less than his for committing essentially the same "crime".
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220-2-.55 Wildlife Management Areas, Community Hunting Areas, Public Hunting Areas, and Refuges of Alabama (1) It shall be unlawful on ALL WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS, COMMUNITY HUNTING AREAS, PUBLIC HUNTING AREAS, AND REFUGE AREAS, all of which are established as "wildlife management areas" by Rule 220-2-.22 and all of which are hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to herein as "AREAS" or "AREA":
(n) To hunt or discharge firearms within 150 yards of any camping area, dwelling, dam or timber operation, 100 yards of any paved public road or highway, or from within the right-of-way of any developed U.S. Forest Service road (paved or unpaved) which is open for vehicular traffic; within a posted safety zone or on Sunday within one/half mile of any church.
