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As a surveyor, I regularly use a laser distance meter to measure distances in the woods. It's not difficult to work in a dense stand of timber, with visibility seeming to be 100 feet, and find that small gap between trees for a 400 or 800 foot measurement. You shoot a rifle into the woods, there is absolutely no guarantee it will hit a tree and stop it's travel within the distance you think is safe.
Put some bright orange jackets on sticks where you intend to shoot from, then go walk around downrange as far as you think you should, then look back, you'll see orange between the trees often enough.
Leaves and twigs don't stop rifle bullets, nor do small tree trunks.
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