John,
My area is just inside rifle, you might even go thru it on your way to sharon springs, but as you said Avoid the A-holes is **** near impossible here, it gets very scary in the woods around deer season, last year they shot 2 donkeys, a brown goat, and a jersy calf, i saw the donkeys and the goat both were gutted and on the roof of their suv with a doe tag in its ear.