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Rogerflat · Silver Status Member

Ok, so this is the window that I primarily shoot from, and from which most of my hunting stories have come from. The tree that you see there has a twin brother to the left of it which is also accessible via this shooting port. The window hand cranks outward so I usually just have it opened enough to stick the barrel out and get a sight picture. This image is obviously from an upward view, but the ground below is just bare dirt and more often then not the birds are walking around on the ground when I see them rather than up in the trees.

I do a number of things to help conceal myself further when I shoot. You can see the folder sitting there which essentially blocks the birds from seeing movement inside the window. I usually have the blinds slanted open so that the far end is covered but the end I shoot from is open more. You can see the eave hanging over which blocks out the tops of the trees. I can get a considerable array of angles from this one position, but there are also just as many limitations. But as you can see, even the highest shot in the tops of the trees is barely more than 20 yards. And most of my shots end up less than ten yards away.

cw · Banned

Nice tree. A bird feeder or two would be nice. It would bring a little song
into that scene.

Plus, you would have some legitimate targets to shoot at, protecting
your songbirds from riffraff pests.

Old Pa · Member

I've got the "shooting door"; a six foot sliding glass door opening out into my near backyard. At 8 meters, there's a four-trunked birch tree and a fifteen foot long clump of low ornamental conifers that shelter rabbits and chipmunks. At 25 meters, there's the four foot wood pool fence (where red squirrels run and crows sometimes sit) and a tall spruce and white pine with dense dogwood around their bases that harbors both birds and rodents. At 40 meters, my neighbors acorn laden oak branches hang over my yard.

From mid-summer on, this "cafeteria" draws from blocks away. Plenty of shooting lanes with nothing to endanger for well over one hundred yards. I set up back in the kitchen and keep most noise in the house. Just have to keep the spaniels out of the way; my girls "run to the guns"! Giant Grin