Winter Shooting

[Eric300]

During the winter months here in Michigan I still like to get out and do some shooting every once in a while. Of course, sometimes the weather just won't cooperate.
Fortunately, I can just fire up the wood burner in my barn to keep me warm. I have 2 HD bullet traps that I can shoot into. One will handle up to .44 Mag. But I mostly just shoot my .22LR or air rifle just to get in some trigger time and kill a few hours. I can get 10 meters indoors and up to 100 if I open the back door of the barn.

We got a few inches of snow overnight. No problem. Broke out the 2-stage Toro snow blower and cleared a lane from the back of my barn to the 100 yd. backstop.

There is one drawback, though. Sometimes I have to wait for traffic to clear....

 

[mike4sigs]

nice set up
i am jealous

 

[tops]

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Looks too me like meat in the pot. Larry

 

[M29since14]

nice set up
i am jealous

Make that two of us!

 

[jjrr]

Looks too me like meat in the pot. Larry

Ahh, you can’t shoot the deer that hang around your yard. You get to know them and then they bring the babies around year after year.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Yep, times are tough all over...

 

[Eric300]

Ahh, you can’t shoot the deer that hang around your yard. You get to know them and then they bring the babies around year after year.

Yep. That's why I hunt on the other side of the road on my neighbor's property. They might be the same deer, but I don't feel as bad as I would if I shot them in my own backyard.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Ahh, you can’t shoot the deer that hang around your yard. You get to know them and then they bring the babies around year after year.

Okay, now
I’m thinking deer veal. Put that poor fawn in the old veal pen and feed the heck out of it. Just ONE baby. Okay I’m kidding.
That’s a setup to make any city slicker jealous!

 

[Eric300]

Okay, now
I’m thinking deer veal. Put that poor fawn in the old veal pen and feed the heck out of it. Just ONE baby. Okay I’m kidding.
That’s a setup to make any city slicker jealous!

This pic is from this past spring. I guess I'm just getting soft the older I get.

I'll bet that little fawn is in there somewhere.....

 

[Rudi]

Oh man, that is cool. I've always wanted an indoor range. In the basement. With Q. Looks like you use it often.

 

[moosedog]

Nice set up Eric. I don't live too far from you and have still been shooting with this weather. Mine is all outdoors but right out the back of my garage or off my deck. My four-season room sometimes doubles as a deer blind.

 

[WR Moore]

This brings back a story from long, long ago. Seems in Sweden back then, they'd pile a lot of snow up behind the long range rifle targets. Come the thaw, they'd go pick up their bullets and reuse them. They weren't quite as accurate the second time around, but good enough practice.

Or so they claimed. IIRC, pictures of some of the once fired match bullets.

 

[dave1918a2]

Nice set-up. Makes Me jealous. I only have to drive 3 miles, but when it's 10 below I stay home.

 

[llowry61]

Nice setup. A friend of mine had a bunch of deer on their property which they were protective of for the first couple of years. After 2 years of them eating everything, they planted they declared a personal Jihad on them as well as many other 4-legged vermin.

Ohio had a couple of years where they increased the bag limits on antlerless deer to get the population under control. We took a fair number of deer out of the herd and the next 4 years we saw more bucks and shot much bigger bucks than we had in years past.

The DNR explained that increasing the competition among the bucks and improves the gene pool dramatically.

 

[38magnum]

michigan sucks right now. too cold. snow is not that bad, but cold and damp and wind gahh.

only had 3 good days to go shoot this year. had to plow on those days.