Winter Ops

[Bogview]

There are some very elaborate ways to do this. I went with the quick and dirty. The door insert is made from a dump picked screen door. It was sawed in half and sheet metal screws connected the overlapped halves. Three layers of bubble wrap are duct taped in the center and a piece of corrugated cardboard (political sign stuff) was used for the velcro closing trap door. The last step will be foam on the sides for a better seal. There's 120' to the double stacked 6x6s.

 

[scoeri]

I am a sissy when it's to cold for outdoor shooting. still use my 50 yard range. all while watching football. 

Scott in Wisconsin

 

[Matt247365]

Nice! I like it!

I have a similar set-up minus the velcro sealed door.

Showed this to my wife and told her "see? I'm not crazy after all "

So she says "maybe you and him are the same kind of crazy"

Matt

 

[SMH77]

Me on my winter range:

 

[Yarddog]

I'm absolutely freezing out here in SoCal...only about 68° today...thinking about donning a swearshirt!

Oh! The horror! The horror!!!

 

[Imold]

I’m going to make something like that out of styrofoam insulation and put it in my patio door opening to keep the 20* to minus 20* weather from coming in when I shoot, right now it isn’t so bad when the wind is out of the north being in shooting to the south.

 

[Quad82]

With the Marauder and the Flashpup, I lie on the garage floor and shoot out the back door. Mr. Heater keeps the chill down. Neighbors aren’t a problem. But with the other louder guns, I either shoot out of the barn or back in the shooting shed at my range. Had a blast last night. We set up the Christmas tree last week and used new strings of lights. My son and I took the old strings of L E D lights and ran an extension cord out to the fence row at 50 yards. After dark we would take turns picking a color to shoot at. Each miss cost you .25 cents. The nice thing is when you hit a bulb, the whole string doesn’t go out. 

 

[Insanity]

With the Marauder and the Flashpup, I lie on the garage floor and shoot out the back door. Mr. Heater keeps the chill down. Neighbors aren’t a problem. But with the other louder guns, I either shoot out of the barn or back in the shooting shed at my range. Had a blast last night. We set up the Christmas tree last week and used new strings of lights. My son and I took the old strings of L E D lights and ran an extension cord out to the fence row at 50 yards. After dark we would take turns picking a color to shoot at. Each miss cost you .25 cents. The nice thing is when you hit a bulb, the whole string doesn’t go out.

That sounds like a blast.

 

[yoopper]

Imold

Where are you located? That frozen water out your back door looks like da UP eh!

 

[Bogview]

Our son came over for Christmas and we got a pretty good shooting session in.

Scoring was monitored on the 65" Samsung with the help of a PTZ security cam.

 

[Imold]

Imold

Where are you located? That frozen water out your back door looks like da UP eh!

Naw I’m a Minnesotan, I live on a small 1200 acre lake. Sometimes I think the UP would be a nice place to live, went up there a couple winters ago and picked up a couple snowmobiles for a guy here.

Ive always liked northern Wisconsin too, Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and the UP are all places a outdoor enthusiast would want to live and enjoy if they wanted the true four seasons.

 

[Imold]

Bogview I like the ties you have for a backstop, I’ve been keeping my eyes open for like 30 of them to build backstops for powder burners at my other property,

 

[SMH77]

Imold

Where are you located? That frozen water out your back door looks like da UP eh!

I’m a Tech grad myself-where in the UP are you? My wife and I lived there for a few years while attending MTU. We lived in Dollar Bay at the time.



Sean

 

[Bogview]

The landscape timbers were leftovers piled up in the woods. Time to put them to good use.

There is one drawback to this type of shooting. Anyone walking in the room will cause vibrations affecting the shot. You wouldn't notice this unless you are looking through a scope.

 

[Imold]

I’m shooting out the door from the SW corner of my home so it’s pretty solid having 2 foundation walls just about under me, matter of fact I’m just getting ready to shoot, need to do it before the storm gets here, there talking 9-15 inches on snow with wind gusts up to 40-50 mph tonight thru Friday morning and it’s supposed to be -21 degrees Friday morning also, then warm up Saturday and Sunday.