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A few times a month, I’ll go out at night and just fire the shotgun. Maybe once. Maybe twice. I like to do that between 1:00 and 3:00 am.

I think you live next door to me. ;)

No one lives next to me. ;-)

A few times a month, I’ll go out at night and just fire the shotgun. Maybe once. Maybe twice. I like to do that between 1:00 and 3:00 am.

I think you live next door to me. ;)

I live next door to a grain elevator served by railroad tracks, so mostly when I touch off a round, it's a .22 at a grain-stealing mouse, sometimes a rat. Occasionally, I have to make do with the handgun I carry, so other nearby neighbors are used to that.

However one evening last year we had a whitetail dear- in season- wandering down the RR tracks between the light of the full moon reflected atop the shiny steel rails. I had the choice of a couple of my rifles out the back door, but happened to use my son's .303 SMLE. Worked fine.

Only shot so far this year: a .22 through three paint cans in a row so I could blow the pressure out of them, recover the agitator balls [slingshot ammo for stray neighbor dogs, coons and possums] and then pitch the empty cans in the burn barrel prior to recycling. But the year is young.

A few times a month, I’ll go out at night and just fire the shotgun. Maybe once. Maybe twice. I like to do that between 1:00 and 3:00 am.

I think you live next door to me. ;)

I live next door to a grain elevator served by railroad tracks, so mostly when I touch off a round, it's a .22 at a grain-stealing mouse, sometimes a rat. Occasionally, I have to make do with the handgun I carry, so other nearby neighbors are used to that.

However one evening last year we had a whitetail dear- in season- wandering down the RR tracks between the light of the full moon reflected atop the shiny steel rails. I had the choice of a couple of my rifles out the back door, but happened to use my son's .303 SMLE. Worked fine.

Only shot so far this year: a .22 through three paint cans in a row so I could blow the pressure out of them, recover the agitator balls [slingshot ammo for stray neighbor dogs, coons and possums] and then pitch the empty cans in the burn barrel prior to recycling. But the year is young.