Question about hunting near roads, highways, and ?

[Hardcorehunter]

urban areas?

Here are a couple of different scenarios:
1.You are hunting near a road or highway. You shoot a deer with your bow and the deer takes off and runs right into a family in a SUV and they hit the deer and it either damages their vehicle or worst yet, they are all killed.
2. You are hunting in a suburban setting and you shoot a deer and it runs up and lays down in someones backyard. A kid sees the deer and goes up to it and the deer kicks the child and injures or kills the kid.

Are there any laws in the IA regs or state that you live in to protect a hunter from having criminal or civil charges brought against them? With all of the urban sprawl and housing develpments near timbers, hwys close to timber,and city doe hunts being conducted; any of these scenarios is a real possibility. One could always argue that due to you shooting the deer, you caused the deers' behavior. I posted this on another forum and in 10 hours of being posted, three people had either friends or themselves have one of these scenarios happen to them. They were fortunate in that no one was injured and only property damage occured and the property owners didn't try to sue. What are your thoughts?

 

[Renobber]

I have never thought about that, but it doesn't sound like you would want it to happen to ya.

 

[Daver]

When questioned... "What deer!?"

Oh, that one looks just like the one Dbltree was shooting at, you better go ask him. Gotta go!

 

[dbltree]

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When questioned... "What deer!?"

Oh, that one looks just like the one Dbltree was shooting at, you better go ask him. Gotta go!

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[ironwood]

[ QUOTE ]
When questioned... "What deer!?"

Oh, that one looks just like the one Dbltree was shooting at, you better go ask him. Gotta go!

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This is clearly the correct approach.

 

[fatboy]

Years ago a friend and I were gun hunting and it was freezing rain all day.We decided to go to a place that had a couple of small wood lots and push them.On the last patch I was posted and my buddy pushed a couple of doe's out of a brushy fenceline.I tried to get my safety off but it was frozen as the first doe crossed the field and as soon as it hit the hiway it slipped and slid on it's hindquartes across the road the sametime a car was coming which hit its brakes and almost lost control on the ice.The driver saved it,and am sure he was very impressed by the near miss we had caused.