Shoot Pellet Gun In Backyard?

"...pellet catcher..." Steel box with a trap on the bottom. Some are rated for .22 LR. They're not horribly expensive either.
"...beers come out so does the bb gun trap..." Ahem! Booze and guns, even pellet guns, don't mix.
 
Build a pellet trap with duct seal it works great. I shoot my Webley Tepest in the basement and the pellets all stick in the duct seal. You can buy duct seal at Home Depot.
 
I just have a target (coke can, empty or something) and a phonebook to soak up the pellets.

Cheap, easy, works, I'm happy.

I got a bag of steel whool from the dollar store and it actually catches pellets (old pellet rifle, really old, probably quite weak) and the pellets are even good for another go. They don't deform in the fine whool :)
 
I treat my pellet guns like real ones, I have a make shift range in my basement. No need pissing off the neighbors as you may need to live there for awhile.
 
Shooting any type of weapon or weapon looking object outdoors is always risky unless you have large property with privacy.

People behave very oddly around guns. Many have alot of fear, and wont hesitate to call the police if they suspect anything is out of place.

Go to a range, or shoot in the woods.
 
Since moving to the city, a big no no. But back home in NB my "backyard" was many acres large, and almost entirely a giant forest. It really depends on where you live, and how well-off you are with your neighbours. You could bring your gun to an outdoor range, if you really really wanted to shoot outside.
 
I used to fire my Baikal IZH-61 in my basement - target was at 10m pinned to a phone book, with an old scrap of carpet hung behind it to absorb the unlikely total miss. Outdoors? I wouldn't try it. I live in the land of bylaws....no pellet guns, no paintball guns, etc. My next door neighbours would probably be ok with me firing anything up to a 12 gauge shotgun back there, they're a good sort....but those I don't know so well, with 2 story houses overlooking my back yard, might sing a different tune.
 
I used to fire the .22 off the back porch when I was a kid. Only one neighbor complained. We woke him up too early.

My brother shot his first grouse in the same neighbors bird feeder. :p

In Miramichi:eek:
 
well, my cousin had a little visit from the Toronto Swat team when he was shooting an air rifle in his back yard. The block was sealed off, and a full on take-down.

Uncle keeps it locked up now...

My advise would be no. Not in the city.
 
LOL, in the early 1980s I used to compete in bullseye competition. When travelling to the Nationals I shared a room with another guy on our provincial team who would practice air pistol in the hotel room. He would rig up a backstop using the room's telephone book. On checkout he would toss the phone book in a garbage away from our room and complain at the desk that the room was missing a phone book. Still have a photo in a box somewhere of this guy in his underwear shooting his Walther CP2 in a hotel room.
 
well i got a crappy walmart special (under 500fps) because i had some rabbits in my backyard that were pissing me off. got 3 of them. the 4th one a neibour saw and asked me to stop. she was a tree hugger and didn't like me killing the rabbits, but was interested in my gun. so i showed her, then took her to the range and shower her my real guns and not long after she got her PAL and now we go shoot trap every once in a while! So it all depends on the neibour.

like it's been said federally and provincally i can't find laws prohibiting it, but your municipal laws may differ. if it's not against local laws then i'd say go ahead and do it. but try to educate your neibours, include them, ask them to join you, show them it's nothing to be scared of and how fun it is!
 
billygoat said:
From the City of Vancouver website:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/licandinsp/animalcontrol/faqs/wildlife.htm

Can I shoot the pigeons?

No, it is illegal to discharge a fire arm in the City of Vancouver. This includes pellet guns and sling shots.

Never mind. I see someone else is faster with a mouse...
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Maybe look into what it takes to get your papers in order with the Municipality, to become one of the Exterminator/pest control folks that people will call when they have pigeons/rats/rabbits to be rid of.

I met a Beaver trapper that worked in the Calgary area, and knew one fella that was responsible for pigeon control in Moose Jaw a few years back.
Get paid to do what you want to do anyway. "It's OK ma'am! I'm a professional!" :D

Cheers
Trev
 
I had a rabbit in our garden a couple of times and was so tempted to end him with a .22 or even an arrow, but called the bylaw office and they informed me that in Airdrie you can't "launch projectiles of any kind". This includes pellet guns of any velocity, hitting golf balls (other than on the golf course of course), throwing lawn darts, shooting arrows, shooting airsoft, and of course shooting guns.
Airdrie is teeming with gun owners, and I'm more than a little surprised at this attitude. How did we get saddled with such a bylaw. I'm going to make sure we get some different people in municipal office this next election that's for sure.
 
ndb86 said:
well i got a crappy walmart special (under 500fps) because i had some rabbits in my backyard that were pissing me off. got 3 of them. the 4th one a neibour saw and asked me to stop. she was a tree hugger and didn't like me killing the rabbits, but was interested in my gun. so i showed her, then took her to the range and shower her my real guns and not long after she got her PAL and now we go shoot trap every once in a while! So it all depends on the neibour.

like it's been said federally and provincally i can't find laws prohibiting it, but your municipal laws may differ. if it's not against local laws then i'd say go ahead and do it. but try to educate your neibours, include them, ask them to join you, show them it's nothing to be scared of and how fun it is!
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Me-thinks this is very good, sage advice. I've shot pellet/B-B where ever I have lived, just made a simple backstop like others have said. Big box, double layer of scrap carpet and your GTG. Carpet doesn't last forever but, oh well.
Cheers!!!
 
You should be able to.. the laws are such bs, i even read that a few states that it's ILLEGAL to catch and drink RAINWATER, what kind of bs political government is that, they say it belongs to the streams... !
 
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