Shooting in back yard.

[d. ward]

Here is some food for thought.We pay 11% tax on archery tackle.It is classified as sporting goods equ because of that tax.I'am not sure in other states,but I know for sure in Washington the neighbors can complain away and it will do no good.The cops tell them its just like a frizzbee or a football.They actually still teach it in some schools and I can play with it in my own yard all I want.Most of my neighbors kind of don't even come around when they see the targets.But here it is classified as sporting goods equ...bowdoc

[hnt2mch]

i do even have a ladder stond to get up in and shoot and i have neighbors i asked before i started.and i can be seen from the road in front of my house.

[Swamp Pygmy]

I do but I shoot at my own house from the fence. Not from my house to the fence.

[Ontario Longbow]

I do from my deck and a ladder 11" up,, mostly out from 12 - 20 yards,,Frank

 

 

 

 

 

[Teacher_of_the_Arcane]

Hi All,

My house sits on a sloping lot, and the 'notch' that was bulldozed for the house left a highwall about eight or ten feet high.  I put a bag target at the foot of the bank and my wife and I shoot away.  We don't have a fense.

[Paul WA]

Yes I shoot in my yard have a 3-d target, If I hop my fence I have roughly 10,000 acres to shoot in...PR

[pronghorn23]

I do. Shoot at a bag target or hay bale. I have just over an acre lot with a row of trees separating my lot from the one behind me. Plus a picket fence.

I'm on a slight incline shooting downward. On those rare occassions when the bag jumps the string the arrows go into the ground. Unfortunately sometimes not to be found.

No ordinance prohibiting it and don't care if there was one.

[DRR324]

I certainly feel for you guys....I've got 5 acres for the kids to roam, installed a backstop for our little league practice field, and shoot from my polebarn roof.  I can safely shoot 100 yard shots, just a bit farther than most of you...not that I can hit anything at 100- but it's a blast watching the arrow fly that far.
Keep up with the clever shooting ranges to those that are "landlocked"    

[Stinger]

I live in a townhouse subdivision but it backs to an old farm pond and some woods.  I can get a 20 yard shot with the target backing to an 8 foot wooden fence.  From the angle I shoot, if it were to miss badly the arrow would fly into the woods.  The neighbors on both sides are ok with it and I will not shoot if their kids are out in the fenced yard or on their deck.  Once the leaves are off the trees I can be seen from the street on the other side of the pond but nobody pays attention.  I don't leave the target out but rather take it in and out of my basement for every shooting session.

[Ssamac]

I can shoot from the family room into my greenhouse. Have a bag on the far wall. Just need to open the door and go. Get about 15 yards that way at night or in the worst weather.

As far as outdoors, it's legal here in town. I'm in a sub of the town and have an acre and a half. so shooting with my back to the property line I can shoot about 100 yards one end to the other. I set up a bag or a 3D about 20-30 yards toward the center of the property and never had a complaint. Pretty private and sheilded by the house on one side and the shrubs along the road on the other. Trees to my back. I also throw down odd stuff, like boxes, old pillow, etc and stump shoot all over the lot with my sons. Nice stuff too.

sam