Winter Range

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#4685

Living at 6200′ in the northern Rockies, winter shooting often means having to shoot indoors. We’ve got a 10-yard range in my buddies’ basement. Nothin’ fancy, but it helps keep us from going stir crazy:

Let’s see your ‘winter range!’

[shag]

#33009

Thats a pretty slick setup. Here in Middle Tennessee it doesn’t really get too cold for me to shoot…it just gets too wet. I do my shooting here in the back yard. The trail that I was walking to the target to get my arrows started looking like a hog lot.

Heres my new setup. Its under my back patio thats covered by an aluminum awning so I’m out of the rain for the most part. It’s also concrete so its not making such a mess. I just measured the distance and it comes out to 55 feet max. Its not ideal but its enough to keep shootin’ and stay in practice when the weather is nasty. I just roll the target out of the garage and start shooting.

[shag]

#33011

I rolled the target out in the dark for the pics so I just had to make one shot to show off the bow lol. Sorry.

[Brennan Herr]

#33431

Shag,

Glad you showed off the bow…it is really great looking!

[Wexbow]

#33812

Shag, I just hope nobody inadvertently steps out of those patio doors mid shot 😯 😉

I’m similar to you, it’s rarely too cold here but the rain never ends. I’ll post some pics soon…

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#37612

Harlem, NY Winter range, 24 yards. Going hunting this weekend, and I haven’t shot in two weeks because of traveling. So I’m on it 2X a day. I will stump shoot in the woods before I hunt though.

The target: Tibetan goat blanket folded in 3 layers. It’s a little unnerving to have a window and a mirror that close, but I aim low and it’s good for honing my “keep it together” skills for hunting!!:D

Heavily padded tip. Arrow still flies good. I practice also shooting eyes closed into an old pillow 2-3 feet away, for form. I need a new black box to shoot field tips. Arrows fly thru the old box now.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#37646

Nice, Alex. I love seeing how everyone else gets through the winter!

And are those some sweet bocote limbs I see?

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#37670

Smithhammer wrote: Nice, Alex. I love seeing how everyone else gets through the winter!

And are those some sweet bocote limbs I see?

These are Zebrawood lams over foam core/carbon, Bruce.

That bow is so fast, it’s scary! The 650gr padded arrow hits the pillow with such force, I sometimes wonder if they can hear the noise in the street! 😀

[Jason Wesbrock]

#37758

Alex,

I think it’s a riot that a guy living in Harlem can shoot 25 yards inside his home, while I live in a rural area and can only manage 13 yards in my basement. How do you manage shooting outside, living in NYC?

[James Harvey]

#37763

I don’t have a winter range but it is rather flooded in my little part of the world at the moment, so many roads are cut and I’m forced to shoot at home. I made this little 10m range today.

I’m shooting for Dumbo up the back. Tell you what, the little munchkins make it hard to get a clear shot, its like put put golf.

Incidentally, my arrow doesn’t seem to be shooting real straight, if anyone has any tuning tips they’d be appreciated.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#37793

J.Wesbrock wrote: Alex,

I think it’s a riot that a guy living in Harlem can shoot 25 yards inside his home, while I live in a rural area and can only manage 13 yards in my basement. How do you manage shooting outside, living in NYC?

:D:D Haha, Jason! Funny, heh? Well, I spend some weekends at my daughter’s home in the Hudson Valley, in the town of Beacon, NY. I hunt in Garrison and Beacon and her house is also my hunting camp. Most of my hunting and archery gear ( except bow ) stays in her garage. I tune arrows in her large backyard. From there I take my block, and Makenzie deer to various hayfields and woods.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#37802

Ausjim,

Aaah, munchkins! They make the best targets, but hard to hit, since they don’t stand still, and you can’t stop’em with a fawn bleat!!:lol::lol:

[William Warren]

#37833

Well I could get 15 yards down the hall from the bedroom to the family room but such activities indoors would be frowned upon in this establishment. Would not want to get on the Admiral’s wrong side. 😳

[James Harvey]

#38153

AlexBugnon wrote: Ausjim,

Aaah, munchkins! They make the best targets, but hard to hit, since they don’t stand still, and you can’t stop’em with a fawn bleat!!:lol::lol:

Alex,

That’s why the great hunting gods gave us Sesame Street. Ethical shots on toddlers. 😉

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#38457

ausjim wrote:

Alex,

That’s why the great hunting gods gave us Sesame Street. Ethical shots on toddlers. 😉

Have you considered investing in a few of these for the munchkins, for added realism? 😆

[Ralph]

#38562

Amazing how we learn something sometimes. I was gonna find a humorous munchkin to stick in here and I actually had no idea there were munchkin cats.

Not implying anything about winter range, just happened.

My indoor range backstop got replaced by a new storm door and I also know about “the power of admiral type suggestions” 😀 like,”NO MORE HOLES IN DOOR”

[David Petersen]

#38843

Good uplifting thread, amigos. My indoor range looks much like Alex’s, with a window right behind the target. But my max range is 8 yards so I’d really have to mess up to blow out a window and there’s nothing out there but snow and trees to worry about. If nothing else it allows me to tune bows and arrows and keep the shooting muscles from turning to jello.

Cool pad, Alex!

[James Harvey]

#38857

Smithhammer – my little man has a delightful little Zebra hat in that style, gives him quite an exotic feel 😛

[Wexbow]

#41263

Well we don’t get the snow, just rain, rain and, you guessed it more rain. Working on my one-shot 10 yarders – still some work to do. Love my Reinhart block though:

Out back is my roving grounds, there’s even a Norman Castle (13th Century) about 1/4 mile in the distance – imagine what archery went on around here back in the day???

My backyard perspective. This came out a bit blurred as it may not be snowing but there’s a force 5 NWer hitting me causing a bit of hand shake – I’ll blame that for my off shots too!!

[Ralph]

#41280

I believe my Texas Panhandle winter range a bit different colored or should I say “lack of colored” than yours. 😀

[Troy Warner]

#41288

Alex,

I showed my wife the pics of your winter range. Her reply was “only if I’m shooting and your the target”.

Hence my indoor range is in the shed/dog house.

Troy

[Wexbow]

#41344

Hey Ralph, why is your sky that colour? I thought the sky was grey??? And it’s only February 🙁

[Ralph]

#41349

??Sunshine shinin on me, blue skies what I see??:D:D:D

Send us some of your rain:D:D:D

[Wexbow]

#41358

Rain drops keep falling on my head…

If only we could trade 😆

[Ralph]

#41376

Half and half would be good for both I bet but I’ll throw in the %$#&**#@ wind for good measure. 😉

[Wexbow]

#41407

Oh man we’ve enough wind, there’s a northerly gale forecast for tonight 🙁 So it’ll be cold, windy and wet, maybe some sleet which really p’s me off cos you don’t even get the pleasure of a little snow 😥 Oh well, I’ve a roaring fire in the hearth and I’m reading TBM so life ain’t so bad 😀

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#41494

Wexbow wrote: ….Oh well, I’ve a roaring fire in the hearth and I’m reading TBM so life ain’t so bad 😀

Life is good!

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#43404

tradhunter1 wrote: Alex,

I showed my wife the pics of your winter range. Her reply was “only if I’m shooting and your the target”.

Hence my indoor range is in the shed/dog house.

Troy

Funny, Troy! I can imagine the tone of that short conversation! No, you don’t wanna end up in the dog house, you just wanna shoot your bow in it! 😀

[ccrconner]

#51628

Nothing between Amarillo and the north pole but a barb wire fence—and it’s down in most places!

[Ralph]

#51651

Yeppers on that!!

Fence was down ‘tween’ here and NM yesterday. Way bad brownout. 60 mph. Yuck. Rarely gets brown here in Amarillo but yesterday was not good.

Sad when your arrows are hitting the target nock first :lol::lol:.

[Ralph]

#51725

Some y’all up north have a winter range like this? :)) Niagara Falls 102 yrs. ago.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#10819

Keeping the ‘shack nasties’ at bay:

And one very dead pheasant:

[James Harvey]

#11096

You killed that pheasant dead smithhammer 😛 I just spent an hour shooting at my little range I made at work, alas the pile of soil I used as my backstop was full of large hidden rocks. 2 broken Beman Classics later and I closed down the range 🙁 Silly rocks.

[Ralph]

#12169

My winter range has changed a bit last night and today. This a 6′ fence.

[Robin Conrads]

#12183

😯

How often does that happen?

[Ralph]

#12188

This much not that often but the panhandle has a reputation for drifting snow. This is #2 in the 1 day snowfall total, 19″, but this is the worst drift at my house. One in ’08’ was bad but not like this one. 77 mph wind gust and sustained 40-50 mph. I sent Wexbow a pic here awhile back of a 5′ snow that made 3′-4′ drifts outside my fence.

This pic is from ’08’.

I’ll be awhile messing with this new one methinks.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#12203

Nice, R2 ! I love snow drifts.

[Ralph]

#12216

They’re cool til you get stuck in them or in this case my gate is buried under that and back the opposite direction of picture it’s just as bad and the trash dumpster is totally buried also. Cain’t even see the thing. Trash could become a problem. There be times when, as I was rudely informed by some @#$^&$ person that I own, my un-green, 3/4 ton 4×4 Dodge with 6 speed manual comes in handy.

[Ralph]

#12225

Alex, last time I did something like that, riding on the upside down hood of an old car pulled by a truck…..well I still have all my parts working somehow :lol::lol: Sounds fun what y’all did on skis.

[Ralph]

#12862

Some things first right? :lol::lol:

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