Does anyone have an idiot neighbour?

There is an old law in Gilbert that says it is legal to shoot a bow and arrow on your property. This is an old law from when Gilbert was mostly farm property that was never changed. The neighborhoods here are no longer farm or horse property. I'm luck if there is 15 ft between our two houses.

My neighbor shoots in bow competitions and practices in his backyard. Normally this wouldn't bother me as much except that his target is on the side of the fence that we share and I have had several arrows end up in my yard over the years. His father even came to retrieve on of them from the fence on the other side of my yard because it was one with one of his good hunting arrow heads on it. He is a big guy and he had to use both hands and his foot on the fence to get this arrow out of the fence.

When my sister and her kids moved in I politely asked them to move the target or to stop all together, they refused. When I first got my dogs I politely asked them again to stop and they refused.

One day I went outside for a smoke and he was shooting. One arrow went between the fence slats and luckily got stopped half way. I hollered so that he could hear me and got his attention. Calmly walked up to the fence and told him that I wasn't going to tolerate it anymore, "legal" or not. He again said that he would not stop because he couldn't afford time at a range. I told him ok, shoot back there all you want, but the next time an arrow tries or comes into my yard I would use everyone in his house at the time for "target practice" with my .45.

He hasn't shot back there since then. That was the first time one of us has been in the backyard when one of his arrows tried to go though the fence and I was furious. I know I probably should not have made the threat, but thats my family he was endangering and it needed to stop. He hasn't talked to me since then either. I think I asked on here at one time if anyone knew about the laws regarding this whole thing.

Anyway, a bit long winded, but that's my idiot neighbor story.