Sometimes you have to make due.

[Matthew Bolton]

I moved away from home and I don't readily have a place to shoot my bows anymore. Well I have absolutely zero intention of letting that keep me down. Turns out if I scoot my rocking chair and kitchen table back my little apartment turns into a 10-12 yard shooting range. Can't keep a good redneck down!
 

[Pointer]

Did something similar when I lived in Brooklyn, NY. Sometimes you have to improvise.. :-)

[ChuckC]

I myself would make some sort of backstop in case of a flinch, so you dont go thru a wall and hurt someone next door.

Nice though !

[McDave]

Yea, just get a 4 X 4 piece of cheap 3/4" plywood to back up your target.

[Archie]

X3 on the need for a backstop.  It is conceivable that if the wrong thing happened, you could regret not having a proper backstop for the rest of your life.

[Dendy Cromer]

My best friend did that in Macon,GA.  One day he forgot to open the sliding glass door and shot a wasp hi tech hammer through it! He looked very concerned, and I just couldn't stop laughing. I used to do the same thing when I lived in an apartment.  You have to do what you have to do!

[Dendy Cromer]

My best friend did that in Macon,GA.  One day he forgot to open the sliding glass door and shot a wasp hi tech hammer through it! He looked very concerned, and I just couldn't stop laughing. I used to do the same thing when I lived in an apartment.  You have to do what you have to do!

[hawkeye n pa]

LOL Dendy.

Watch leaving any windows open also.  New a lady that bought a new 70' trailer home.  She shoots from  one end to the other in side.  One day a door wasn't shut in the hallway and a gust of wind opened it  into the arrow.

[D. Key]

Aim small, miss small.  Backstop is a must!!!

[Bowwild]

There is a small hole in wood work in a room of an old hotel in Louisville. No one will notice but me.  I was quite surprised at the penetration of my setup.

[YosemiteSam]

As a teenager, my parents instituted a "no nocked arrows in the house" rule.  I was just checking to make sure the arrow I cut would still clear the riser.  Alas, compounds are a lot harder to let down than traditional bows -- slipped right out of my fingers.  But the rule stuck and I've made it a household rule for my boys.  Live and learn.

"You can't keep a good redneck down" -- Love that!

[BAK]

How can you be good rednecks if you've succumbed to living in a city apt., just sayin.

[McDave]

Originally posted by YosemiteSam:
As a teenager, my parents instituted a "no nocked arrows in the house" rule.  I was just checking to make sure the arrow I cut would still clear the riser.  Alas, compounds are a lot harder to let down than traditional bows -- slipped right out of my fingers.  But the rule stuck and I've made it a household rule for my boys.  Live and learn.

I've had a target in a hall for many years where I can take a 15 yard shot.  When the weather is bad outside, I usually shoot a few dozen shots every day at that target.  It is backed up by plywood.  It has been years since I have missed the target and hit the plywood, although there are holes in the plywood from the years before that.  I've considered replacing the plywood so people don't think I'm still shooting holes in it, but I decided that would just be vanity, and I need to be more humble anyway.

Anyway, from time to time I have a problem with creeping, and so have decided to let down if I feel myself beginning to creep.  Easier said than done.  I was trying to let down the other day when the string slipped out of my fingers and the arrow went off when the string was still partially drawn.  The arrow rattled down the tile in the hall and hit a door jam.  No harm done, but my wife wondered what all the racket was, and I had to explain to her.  Good for my humility, I guess.

[Matthew Bolton]

I'll look into shoving something over the back wall. It's hard to tell but the wall behind the target comes up to my chest and I'm just shy of 6 feet tall. If I mange to hit the wall nothing is going through it. That thing is solid. It may hurt my security deposit but I'll deal with that later haha

[macbow]

Remember the picture of my friend Dan Novotny with a arrow through his beer fridge door.

[ChuckC]

Iv'e seen a lot of pix of arrows thru that which shouldn't aughta have arrows thru them.

That set up will work fine, we all just want you to be safe and not get into trouble.

[Deno]

Matthew
X3 on the plywood. Better safe than sorry...or evicted.   If that wall ain't concrete, it ain't solid enough to stop an arrow.

Deno

[Duncan]

Dude! Don't miss!

[Deno]

Is that a balcony with trees and lights behind the target?
Yikes!! Say it isn't so my friend.

Deno

[twitchstick]

I shoot at 12 yards in my basment all winter. Set it up safe and your good. It will help maintain the mussel menory and sure is nice during a bizzard.