Anyone else shoot off the porch?

Not like what you're doing. When I lived in a more rural setting I once used some .22 shorts to reduce the Chipmunk population that had taken residence in the tree to the house and were begining to move into the shingles.

On occasion, or even out a window or two.

isn't that what houses have porches for?

Yes, and Windows!

Not yet......But if I ever get to move out to the sticks you bet I will. Every day!

I WISH I could shoot from my porch...someday, someday...

Whoa. And to think my family lights off a few sparklers from time to time for entertainment.

would if I could ... not sure about blasting electronics though, sounds like a pain to clean up

not sure about blasting electronics though, sounds like a pain to clean up

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Glass and all of the toxic materials inside...not the best target, but it seems fun was had by all there

Not only shoot off the porch, but pee off the porch too!

No porch, but I killed multiple squirrel one fine Sunday morning a few years back without leaving my BED. Killed one, then another came in to claim his turf, killed him and so on. I had a stack of the buggers, all claimed with single shots from my CZ 452 aka the "death ray."

The bed was a mass of blankets and padding set up in a garden shed, with the door opening to Alaskan spruce forests. No neighbors that direction for many miles, so it was a good place to practice.

A neighbor of mine, who was crazy (even by Mat-Su standards) had a unique but effective warning sign at the boundary of his property. It was a target with holes in it and a scrawled warning to the effect that he had shot that group from his cabin window.

This was my bed:



I'd bring a little DVD player and TV in there to run off the Honda sometimes. Note the requisite Sailor Boy Pilot Bread. It was danged comfy down to about 10 f. But once it got below zero, with no insulation and no heater, things got a might chilly and I'd have to put on the union suit and relocate to the derelict trailer.

JoeMal said:

I WISH I could shoot from my porch...someday, someday...

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My sentiments exactly.

A buddy has sandbags and a spotting scope set up on a table right brside his reloading bench. When he wants to test a load he just opens the window.

It must be nice.

I've stood in the house shooting out the patio door while it was raining. Back yard is 1000 feet of woods backing up to the rest of the section that isn't inhabited along my line of fire. I shoot at my target berm so my rounds stay on my land.

Tip, when shooting just inside the house, plugs and muffs!

I wish I had thought to push up a 50 yard berm in line with the window of my detached garage when my brother owned a backhoe. That would have been perfect, open window, test handgun load, go back to loading bench.

Clutch

Yep have been known to do it for recreational purposes and to defend the rabbits and garden from varmints.

I used to, but ended up moving back to civilization when my marriage ended.

Shooting Off the Porch

First; back in PA when I was single I rented the top floor of my friends country house. There was a problem with woodchucks digging out the rock foundation of the summer kitchen. So I used his Marlin bolt .22 to shoot them from the second floor window. Back in the fifties we used to eat breakfast at a lodge in the Black Hills. Behind the lodge was a cleared area about 200 yards wide and 1000 yards long. The owner and his family shot their deer from the back porch every year. They had yardage markers all the way out to 800 yards. Opening day about 4 AM using spotlights and scopes we counted about 200 deer in that open area.

MtnCreek said:

Not only shoot off the porch, but pee off the porch too!

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Well if you can't pee off your porch or shoot off your porch, you know you're living in suburbia...

Total envy! My range is just down the road from me, my good friend has a 8 acre back field on his farm with a huge burm at the end. All my shooting buddies think I have it soooo good. Most of the time I need my 4x4to get back there. GREEN! with envy.

Every porch should come with shooting tables and targets out to at least 600 yards.

Never lived at a setup like that, darn it, but I've visited a time or two.

I've got a 185 yard stretch off my porch out to the woodline. I shoot from it quite often.

thats technology control!

Not since I was a kid. Ahhhh....the gold old days!