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67Dart273

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For some reason I'm always surprised. This is right downtown the next lot over. Stepped out the back door before 7AM to "judge the day." And there he was LOL

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LOL. I have no bow, and the sound of a 30-30/ 357 in this neighborhood would "complicate" the food chain getting operations
 
A cross bow is my choice of arm to put them in the fridge, yep, he will be getting some attention soon at deer season
 
Camera went off the other morning. I guess eating the wife’s shrubs. He decided too much effort to jump the 5ft fence and walked off.

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I've actually thought about trying to build a crossbow "for fun."

AND NOW ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY FROM THE OLD DAYS

This is just up the street where I live. The "X" is that back 30 years ago when this happened, the apt building under the X was not there. There is a house under the trees to the right. I drove up the street coming home from work, and there's some guy at the opposite edge of the street, as indicated by the black line TARGET PRACTICING WITH A BOW up towards the house under the trees with some sort of backstop. There's a nice big window in the house nearby

I drove up and stopped close, and out the window said "hi", and I said,

"I'm going to park down here where I live and get the mail. If you are not still here when I get done with that, I won't call the police"

I told him, "you cannot shoot deadly weapons across the road." (And of course you cannot shoot a bow in town, either, road or not)

I talked to two neighbors later on about it, and both told me HE HAS A SMALL CHILD at home AND IS A CONVICTED FELON, therefore cannot even HAVE weapons, much less shooting across a road!!!

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67Dart273 said:
I've actually thought about trying to build a crossbow "for fun."

AND NOW ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY FROM THE OLD DAYS

This is just up the street where I live. The "X" is that back 30 years ago when this happened, the apt building under the X was not there. There is a house under the trees to the right. I drove up the street coming home from work, and there's some guy at the opposite edge of the street, as indicated by the black line TARGET PRACTICING WITH A BOW up towards the house under the trees with some sort of backstop. There's a nice big window in the house nearby

I drove up and stopped close, and out the window said "hi", and I said,

"I'm going to park down here where I live and get the mail. If you are not still here when I get done with that, I won't call the police"

I told him, "you cannot shoot deadly weapons across the road." (And of course you cannot shoot a bow in town, either, road or not)

I talked to two neighbors later on about it, and both told me HE HAS A SMALL CHILD at home AND IS A CONVICTED FELON, therefore cannot even HAVE weapons, much less shooting across a road!!!

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You need to write the book.
 
67Dart273 said:
Most of it is unprintable and would get me a "suicide". Or as the Clitoons say, "Arkancide"
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I hear that :lol:
I have seen one home made cross bow made out of pvc. it was on utube of course, but very possible :thumbsup:
 
67Dart273 said:
I've actually thought about trying to build a crossbow "for fun."

AND NOW ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY FROM THE OLD DAYS

This is just up the street where I live. The "X" is that back 30 years ago when this happened, the apt building under the X was not there. There is a house under the trees to the right. I drove up the street coming home from work, and there's some guy at the opposite edge of the street, as indicated by the black line TARGET PRACTICING WITH A BOW up towards the house under the trees with some sort of backstop. There's a nice big window in the house nearby

I drove up and stopped close, and out the window said "hi", and I said,

"I'm going to park down here where I live and get the mail. If you are not still here when I get done with that, I won't call the police"

I told him, "you cannot shoot deadly weapons across the road." (And of course you cannot shoot a bow in town, either, road or not)

I talked to two neighbors later on about it, and both told me HE HAS A SMALL CHILD at home AND IS A CONVICTED FELON, therefore cannot even HAVE weapons, much less shooting across a road!!!

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I had a biker friend who used to hunt deer with a bow. He lived here in town and hated this one big house cat that would wonder into his yard. His dogs would go crazy every time the cat came around. One day he was out working on his Harley in his back yard and here comes the cat. My friend got really pissed off when his dogs started to bark so he went inside and got his bow and quiver. He came back out side and there was the cat. He said that the cat started back to his home when the cat saw the bow. He pulled the arrow back and let it fly. The cat was almost back to his home fence when the arrow got him. The cat made a few flips then crawled back into his own yard (dragging the arrow) and finally dropped. He said to himself , "It serves the cat right for going into his yard"...............then he realized that the arrow had his name and address on it (as required by law for deer hunting). It was late in the afternoon so my friend waited until it got a little dark then stuck his hunting knife in his mouth and crawled (military style) over to where the cat was laying and got his arrow back. This guy was a biker and kind of crazy. My apologies to all the cat lovers out there but it's a true story!!!
 
67Dart273 said:
Most of it is unprintable and would get me a "suicide". Or as the Clitoons say, "Arkancide"
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"The names were changed to protect the innocent"

Of maybe in this case "to shield the guilty". lol
 
I never expected a big doe to be the 1st out of the woods but.. she was. She went a good ways up into the lawn beside the house before the others came out of the trees. I had a total of 5 in the backyard before they left. My camera battery died before I took all the pics I wanted.

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67Dart273 said:
I've actually thought about trying to build a crossbow "for fun."

AND NOW ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY FROM THE OLD DAYS

This is just up the street where I live. The "X" is that back 30 years ago when this happened, the apt building under the X was not there. There is a house under the trees to the right. I drove up the street coming home from work, and there's some guy at the opposite edge of the street, as indicated by the black line TARGET PRACTICING WITH A BOW up towards the house under the trees with some sort of backstop. There's a nice big window in the house nearby

I drove up and stopped close, and out the window said "hi", and I said,

"I'm going to park down here where I live and get the mail. If you are not still here when I get done with that, I won't call the police"

I told him, "you cannot shoot deadly weapons across the road." (And of course you cannot shoot a bow in town, either, road or not)

I talked to two neighbors later on about it, and both told me HE HAS A SMALL CHILD at home AND IS A CONVICTED FELON, therefore cannot even HAVE weapons, much less shooting across a road!!!

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I own half the block where I live. Got a new crossbow, wanted to try it out. Got set up, nice big super stout back stop, all that. Took my shot, it went low and disappeared. I figured it was under the grass.

When I finally found my bolt, it was stuck in the front bumper of the neighbor in the next blocks' Honda Fit. Knocking on their front door was hard. Thinking about hitting a car or person in the road between there and where i was shooting was harder.

They didn't care one bit, even declined money after I offered to pay for repairs.

Then my wife says, why didn't you go to the free archery range north of town?
Uh, cuz I didn't KNOW there was a free range north of town.

I shot a piece of 5' diameter galvanized steel culvert (out in the woods). My bolt blew through the first side and into the second, hanging about halfway out the second side. Modern bows, especially crossbows, are WAY too powerful to shoot in town.

There's deer in my neighborhood. I ain't shooting them!
 
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