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My regular 100 km bike route goes about 1/4 mile from where this occurred. The area is somewhat rural, but there are lots of trailers and people in the area. On Easter Sunday when I was about 5 miles south of where this happened there were two people firing a center fire rifle (probably something like a 30-06 based on the sound) from their trailer porch into a cardboard box at the end of their driveway. The bullet path then went across the road and into a field that was bare for about 100 yds and bounded by trees beyond that. Two miles farther on there is a neighborhood and another mile or so is I35. I waited until they quite firing to check their target and then rode on up and suggested to them that what they were doing was both unsafe as they had no backstop and illegal as they were firing across a road and onto another's property. They did not seem really concerned, but decided they should quit. Some people just do not have a clue that the bullet travels beyond the cardboard box that they are using for a target.