how many of you guys live in neighborhoods and shoot in your back yards?
By back yard i mean yard enclosed with a privacy fence kinda deal.
This is just a quick question i had. Thanks Guys
I do. I have a little tin garden shed I have a foam block in and shoot into that.
When I lived just outside Detroit I used to shoot up the driveway at a bag in the garage.
I have a nice little range in my yard. Here's a link:
http://dickwightman.com/archery/backyardrange/backyardrange.html
It's real nice and I use it a lot... but... it's only good as long as no neighbors complain. I'm real careful not to shoot when anyone is out. being retired makes that easier.
We do. Sometimes we're shooting store-bought targets in blizzard conditions...
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff187/GingivitisKahn/blizard_fun_20080308.jpg)
... and sometimes its straw in nice weather...
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff187/GingivitisKahn/first_straw_group_20080830.jpg)
... but it's the same dumpy little back yard with a beat privacy fence and plywood backstop.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I'm a townie and shoot in my back yard. I can get 30 yards (but my wife doesn't like me standing in her flowers!)
I shoot in the side yard of my semi-rural home. Lots of trees between me and the neighbors, but I'm still careful. Got a good 30 yards with deep woods behind the straw bale target/backstop at the back of my property. Plenty of room for the light bows this old arthritic guy has to shoot now! I also shoot INDOORS, in my garage in warmer weather (only 7 yards with a very light bow; or just across the playroom with a little bundlebow I made for inside-the-house shooting.) Severe northern climate would mean little shooting if I couldn't go inside for much of the year. The town I used to live in has a No Shooting at ALL ordinance now. One of the reasons I was glad to beat feet outa there!
I have a bag target I stuffed with grocery store plastic bags and a block 4x4 target underneath it for broadheads in my garage. I gives me a 15 yard shot with the garage door closed. With the garage door open and weather permitting I have marked out 20-25 and 30 yards to shooting at the target in my garage. Also have a deer target set up in the back yard and can shoot out to 40 yards. Then I have a path mowed from my back yard to out in the field for my long range target up to 90 yards. I shoot 15 to 30 arrows about 5 nights a week. Just love to shoot.
I live downtown and it is illegal to shoot anything; but we are up on a hill so there's a fair bit of privacy. I can get back about 25 yards max. without becoming obvious.
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q291/bjornweb/DSCN2118.jpg)
We need special permission from the city police department to shoot a bow in town. They will grant it if the setup is safe and the neighbors don't complain about missing cats.
Below is the Kansas City ordinance. I shoot in my back yard. But I'm careful about it and have a big wooden fence behind the target and behind that is an industrial lot with no houses or people. I usually shoot at around 20 yards but could probably get up to 30 or so. Just shot 4 dozen today in miserable weather ;)
Sec. 50-266. Use and sale of arrows.
(a) The sale of arrows other than target arrows to a person under the age of 16 years is hereby prohibited.
(b) Except for a managed bow hunt conducted pursuant to Code of Ordinances Section 14-54, the use of arrows other than target arrows within the city limits is hereby prohibited.
(c) The use of bows and arrows on private property shall be in such a manner as not to endanger the life, limb or property of others. Bows and arrows shall be used on public property only in areas provided or inspected and approved by the division of public recreation of the parks and recreation department.
This is my back yard range here in town.
I can shoot 25 yards max if I am touching my chain link fence.
To protect my neighbors I set my backstop centered on my storage shed. My storage shed is about 60 feet long and about 15 feet to the peak of the roof so even if I miss my haybales I still keep the arrow in my own yard.
I have a sheet of plywood leaning up against the shed wall for pass throughs through the hay bales. I shoot boadheads and cut the twine once in awhile when my arrow goes between two bales.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc157/pactac/tuneframe2.jpg)
I have a target up in my garage and stand out in the driveway. It has worked pretty well most of the time, but when I first started with my compound several years ago I missed the target a couple of times and made some nice little holes in the back wall of the garage siding! I also poked a hole in the plywood easter bunny! The bunny shot didn't count though, because it wasn't in the vitals...
I shoot off my deck in my backyard all the time. I did ask my neighbors that had the slimmest of possibilities of hitting her house (ricocheted off the back of the 3D bear neck and angled back and missed a every possible tree kind of thing) and she said: "You kiddin'?! Do you know how many golf balls my husband has ricocheted into your yard?! Shoot away! :biglaugh:
During the winter I think I have figured out a way to shoot inside from the back of my den to the end of the garage. Should work if there are no errant shots! :rolleyes:
My friend Fritz had to completely re Sheetrock the hallway in his apartment because of missed shots while shooting down the hallway through his living room. Land lord was just a little "upset" when he saw the damage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTpNI6IYhEA
thats pretty much all i have lol
I used to live in Torrance, CA where the law prohibits the dischsrge of a weapon within city limits and in Torrance a bow is considered a weapon by Ordinance. Where I currently live I shoot in my backyard. I get 26 yards
me I do!
No privacy fence necessary for me. Woods in the back and even though it's a sub-division, I am still hidden from the prying eyes of everyone except my next door neighbors, neither of whom care.
Yeah, I do. I have a couple of block targets with plywood backstops. I only get 13 yards but it helps me keep in tune. No arrows have ever left the yard.
Here is some food for thought.We pay 11% tax on archery tackle.It is classified as sporting goods equ because of that tax.I'am not sure in other states,but I know for sure in Washington the neighbors can complain away and it will do no good.The cops tell them its just like a frizzbee or a football.They actually still teach it in some schools and I can play with it in my own yard all I want.Most of my neighbors kind of don't even come around when they see the targets.But here it is classified as sporting goods equ...bowdoc
i do even have a ladder stond to get up in and shoot and i have neighbors i asked before i started.and i can be seen from the road in front of my house.
I do but I shoot at my own house from the fence. Not from my house to the fence.
I do from my deck and a ladder 11" up,, mostly out from 12 - 20 yards,,Frank
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/012.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/013.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/014.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/WBWhip002-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/4297432frank/100_2351-1.jpg)
Hi All,
My house sits on a sloping lot, and the 'notch' that was bulldozed for the house left a highwall about eight or ten feet high. I put a bag target at the foot of the bank and my wife and I shoot away. We don't have a fense.
Yes I shoot in my yard have a 3-d target, If I hop my fence I have roughly 10,000 acres to shoot in...PR
I do. Shoot at a bag target or hay bale. I have just over an acre lot with a row of trees separating my lot from the one behind me. Plus a picket fence.
I'm on a slight incline shooting downward. On those rare occassions when the bag jumps the string the arrows go into the ground. Unfortunately sometimes not to be found.
No ordinance prohibiting it and don't care if there was one.
I certainly feel for you guys....I've got 5 acres for the kids to roam, installed a backstop for our little league practice field, and shoot from my polebarn roof. I can safely shoot 100 yard shots, just a bit farther than most of you...not that I can hit anything at 100- but it's a blast watching the arrow fly that far.
Keep up with the clever shooting ranges to those that are "landlocked" :banghead:
I live in a townhouse subdivision but it backs to an old farm pond and some woods. I can get a 20 yard shot with the target backing to an 8 foot wooden fence. From the angle I shoot, if it were to miss badly the arrow would fly into the woods. The neighbors on both sides are ok with it and I will not shoot if their kids are out in the fenced yard or on their deck. Once the leaves are off the trees I can be seen from the street on the other side of the pond but nobody pays attention. I don't leave the target out but rather take it in and out of my basement for every shooting session.
I can shoot from the family room into my greenhouse. Have a bag on the far wall. Just need to open the door and go. Get about 15 yards that way at night or in the worst weather.
As far as outdoors, it's legal here in town. I'm in a sub of the town and have an acre and a half. so shooting with my back to the property line I can shoot about 100 yards one end to the other. I set up a bag or a 3D about 20-30 yards toward the center of the property and never had a complaint. Pretty private and sheilded by the house on one side and the shrubs along the road on the other. Trees to my back. I also throw down odd stuff, like boxes, old pillow, etc and stump shoot all over the lot with my sons. Nice stuff too.
sam