This gives the Quiz Wiz a chance to tell you that bullets can travel amazing distances. That's why it is so important to know where your bullet will end up. Once you fire a gun, you can't call the bullet back. When fired from a rifle, the .22 bullet can travel for more than a mile and a quarter. Three miles is how far a rifle using the .30-06 cartridge can send its bullet.
Shotgun slugs have a range of more than half a mile.
Pellets can fly 500 yards. You should never aim in a direction where there's a house, highway or any chance that your bullet could hit a person. Oooh, I wish I had a dollar for every time Uncle Cletus talked about hunting. He used to be that way. Scouting this, hunting that, food plots here, big buck there - all year long.