Window insert for cold weather shooting

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davelarson

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I shoot from the window a lot, especially during cold weather. Mirage has always been the biggest problem so I designed a blue board window insert. It works too, the barrel is the only thing sticking outside.

I have plexiglass taped to the blue board, and have the bags set up perfectly so the plexiglass comes close to the barrel, but is in front of the scope.

So I’m looking through the plexiglass at the target and it almost completely eliminates the mirage. It’s not handy nor perfect, but it allows me to shoot in super cold weather with little mirage! This shows how addicted I am to shooting lol!

I highly recommend making a window insert for indoor to outdoor winter shooting! And it would probably be nice for super hot weather too. I imagine that most wives will be excited about having such a beautiful addition to the living room Yes? No?
 
Absolutely no reason to let out too much hard earned heat, my friend and i have plans to do something along those lines too in our shot shed.

But it will have to wait a little as this winter we did not get around to finishing that side of the shed, or put in the stove, BUT ! things are ready aside for the ever present lack of building materials.

None of us have the wife problem, both of us are far too free spirited to have one of those around, and even if as a Dane, you are never really free.
 
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My honey bunny is very tolerant of my shooting and this hobby overall, but when it comes to altering the interior decor, I start to feel the heat coming on. Like if I set up on the kitchen table for an indoor session of pellet sorting after around three days she’ll ask the magic words “ how much longer til you’re done”, lol.



my son and I were just reminiscing on a suit of armor I bought one day at a garage sale. Being a sheet metal worker by trade I always looked at the suit of armor as what my kind did back in the day to earn a living. It was a full sized “Sentry” knight. It happened to be Father’s Day when I asked if I could buy it and she said happy Father’s Day and I took it home.

As soon as I off loaded it from the truck she asked what I was gonna do with it. “Well, I’m going to polish it up, get some chain mail fabric for a skirt, a nice sword, and set it up in the living room”

She says “that’s not going in the house no way” so it sat in a corner of my garage for almost 15 years. Never did anything to it except to put the helmet on and chase my nephews scaring them. I finally found a home for him to a guy who had a game room dedicated to medieval stuffs. 


lesson learned. So Dave, no way I could do a set up like yours, lol. You enjoy it while you can, ha ha!!

glad to see that you’re doing better!!
 
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And before you chest puffing macho men get on here and tell me in caveman style that you run the roost and no woman is telling you what you can and can’t do, let me just say I appreciate the fact that my 32’ x28’ garage is my space, and my wifey does not plop her girly stuff in my cave, or hang her clothes on my gym equipment. So it’s a dual respect thing, and I get it.

she’s actually pushing on me to build a shooting shed on our 5 acres, that’ll give me a straight way of at least 120 yards to shoot from, so yes, she’s very supportive, really
 
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When my wife and I decided to replace all the windows while we were replacing siding, etc, I concluded that this window on the back side of the property would turn my whole house into an inclement weather shooting shack. 

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That little slider is perfect. We've since moved the shed and dog cage and got a pasture planted where the fresh dirt is. Can get to 133 yards right there. 

It's fun to shoot out the window for plinking or pesting but it's of limited usefulness when practicing for matches. So much of doing well in comps is reading the wind. The same thing that makes the window shooting nice in crappy weather (getting OUT of the weather) makes practicing from the window of limited usefulness. Can't feel the wind to see what various angles and wind speeds are doing to the pellet. Well, can see what happened to the pellet, but don't have a frame of reference for what that "feel" of wind was. And I have a fundamental aversion to wind flags. I won't have the benefit of a wind flag when shooting pests or either variety of field target that I enjoy, so I view the skill of reading wind flags only helpful for guys who are playing the concrete table game. 




 
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When we lived in a cold climate, I shot from inside the garage out the back door. I placed an electric space heater under the bench and it worked fine. The back door was wide open and a small rug with a square cut out hung in the doorway.

If I wanted to be outside shooting, I sat in a ground blind placed over my bench with the same heater. It got real toasty in there.
 
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We have been having unseasonably warm weather, but when it gets cold it pretty much puts a damper on my bench shooting. cea1960 has a winner idea, I just happen to have a popup blind ,new shooting bench (thanks Santa), and a space heater. My targets would be in a patch of woods behind my house which is frequented by squirrels. I can't hardly wait to get it set up.
 
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