The idea came to me over the weekend. I was shooting in my garage, because it was cold outside. I have one of those bag targets that have the 9 small circles, you know the one I am talking about. I was doing pretty well and decided to shoot the outer circles. Well one jerk-flintch release later, voila I now have a garage door peep hole. At first I was bummed. Then I thought if I could just write up the plans I could make a fortune on Ebay, then I thought better. A great idea like this only comes along once in a life time, kind of like Newton and the Apple. So I thought I would share it with my fellow tradgangers.
It starts something like this. Place your target in front of your garage door, focus on one of the outer spots, draw your bow to your perferred anchor (this is important, most of us have 2 or 3 different anchor points).
Once at full draw, you will feel the jerk-flintch start in your toes, it will rapidly move up to your butt, through your shoulders, before finally ending up in your forehead, kind of like brain freeze. And presto One Brand Spanking New Garage Door Peep Hole.
I think everyone needs a garage door peep hole.
No thanks, I've already got one. ;)
That sounds very similiar to the method that I used to install the extra weep hole in the cover for my hot tub.
I had no idea that that was what I installed in my Boat :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Thanks for the Heads up Stringer
Sure hope I can call it a OPTION when I sell it. :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
My wood fence has several custom peep holes. It's bound to increase my home resale value, right?
I have the fence peep hole thing too, and my fence is also a good storage spot for some of my field points. When I need them I will just get a good pliers and yank em out! :knothead:
I 've got a cow that likes to come see what i'm doing every time i shoot. she stands right behind my targets and peeks over the fence at me. I've kind of got used to it myself, but it sure makes my buddies nervous when i ask them kindly not to miss and hit my cow..... :scared: :thumbsup:
Yeah I hate it when cows do like that.Of course they always taste good. :archer:
when i first started shooting i used my shed as a backstop.it is now a partial screen house
Hey, I got a fence like that too, complete with a few field tips. Wonder if it is worth anything? LOL My neighbor keeps thinking I am gonna hit his car. Like I could miss something that big. LOL
You ought to see my little metal storage building. :scared: used to have some kids (since gro'd up)come to do some shooting in the backyard.
I had to Explain how a "Rock From The Lawn Mower made a Hole almost Perfectly Round!!" :scared: After A Little Fast Talking and Caulking, Ta-Daaaaaa!! No More Hole!! :D
I am just Glad I was shooting Low on purpose!! My Little Old Woodies can put a Fine Hole in Vinyl Siding! :archer: :goldtooth:
Been there, done that.
Jack
Here I thought I had an orginal idea. I guess I can throw away my patent papers.
Scott
Lol...that's why my bag target is leaning against my neighbour's garage :smileystooges:
My wooden gate had a lot of holes in it during my early days of shooting. One day I realized that the gate could be used as a cheese grater. I let all my neighbors know about it, and it became quite the place for getting together, swaping stories and doing a little grating. Sure there were splinters, but hey, redwood is soft so no one really minded.
Sadly, I repaired the gate several years ago. I miss those by gone days, and the many friends who dropped by with blocks of cheese and stories to tell.
When I travel to work and live in motels I like to take a block type target with me. Almost never make holes in the arm chair in my room, at least they hardly show. Still have not got up the nerve to ask every one to stay in their room so I can practice the long hallway shot.
My son and I practiced in the grass beside the parking lot once while at a motel. Outside of course. I was kind of amazed by the people who would stop and watch us for a few minutes. I really figured the manager would come run us off but he didn't seem to mind.
Maybe that would be a good way to get more converts into the fold.
Rusty <><
I do that for barns...free of charge!
I admit to worse. About five holes in my aluminum siding, on my attached garage. Years ago, shooting a brand new compound (sorry), I was a very good shot but every once in awhile the darned thing would let one just rip about three feet off. Drove me nuts. After my wife told me to limit the damage, I took the bow back & discovered it was set so I was shooting it right before "break over". I didn't notice, what the heck, I was shooting a 60# recurve too and the wheel bow felt about the same! Bow was apparently so sensitive there that the slightest release issue (3 under glove w. that bow) would send it who knows where.
That was a long time ago. Stickbows only for quite sometime now & I have never seen a shot near as wild as those.
Scott,
That's exactly how I got the hole in the refrigerator in my basement. The old jerk-flinch when you're working on form sure gets a lot of fun out of it from my brother in law. I don't think he will ever let me forget it.
The National Weather Service suggests the addition of these " vent holes " to garage doors to prevent the doors from being sucked off during a tornado. You should begin advertising your services before tornado season.
son in law put a peep hole in my john boat,can't see the fish though..
When I was younger and there were no neighbors around. The lawn mower used to throw perfectly round rocks at variouse things like the owl decoy and pink flimangoes around the yard. I could never figure out what was wrong with that lawn mower.
we have a few of those ourself LOL
well i'm still trying to figure a use for the peep holes in my neighbors roof (2 story). and no i was not the shooter, it was my son. says he was trying to shoot a dove. good thing the neighbors were getting a new roof soon any way. thanks to the roofers my son got all his arrows back. o' and the wooden fence, i have several dozen of them peek holes in mine as well.
shame this thread didn't have photos to go a long with the examples.
My wife has one of those peep holes in her washing machine.....it was easy!
These peep holes seeem to be showing up all over the place.I got 1 in my sink and in the water condtioner and in the door leading to that room. and a few baseboards..Jerk,flinch,pluck and another peep hole.Property value is falling.
Shot a peephole in a buddys tire once ,didn't need it cause we got to look inside anyways shortly after!! In my defense,there was also a marauding groundhog involved..........
I don't have a peep hole maker but I do have a guaranteed root finder. If my arrow misses the target and flies into the woods by the house I can almost guarantee that it will be stuck (very well) into a tree root. This despite the fact that the woods behind the house are rather sparse.
I'm gonna write a book soon called..."How I Learned To Shoot Traditional ~or~ Two New Garage Doors In As Many Months"...Would ya buy it?
... mike ...
I used to store my old canvas tent in a burlap sack, the same type of sack that my stuffed target used. Did you know that a field point can penetrate about 15 layers of canvas? My tent was instantly customized with multiple , multi-level peepholes. :(
Joey
i used the same method of CONSTRUCTION to make my girlfriend some horizontal candle holders in the living room wall...she said she wanted more romance
Not trying to split hairs or anything but we liked to call the one in my wife's radiator a " vent hole" :help:
I shoot in my shop quite often checking strings I made.I made a string for a old 25# bear recurve and had a small cardboard box that I couldn't remember putting anything in untill that Bohning smell hit me.I look in the box and there was yellow,white and orange all over the place and lucky me they were my buddys cans not mine.I told him and he said "Don't you ever check your target before you shoot? I was thinking why not keep them in your own shop and not mine. Keefers <")))><
I had a cinderblock fence one time that collected several arrowheads,usually ruining an arrow at the same time.At least they didn't make it into the neighbors yard. Frank
QuoteOriginally posted by Whip:
No thanks, I've already got one. ;)
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My garage door is safe, but I once had a tough time choosing between the barn door and a woodchuck. The barn door was MUCH EASIER to hit!!
My apartment was 45 miles from the range, so I shot inside the apartment. Once the first hole was made-the next eight seemed pretty easy. Three years later they only knocked off $20 of my deposit refund to repair the damage. The amount of money I saved in traveling to the range in those years-I'm a WINNER!!!
I had a bag hanging on a stand against an aluminum-sided pole barn. Gave a shaft the old suicide jerk one day and shot through the thin siding. The shaft then went through both sides of a five gallon hydraulic fluid jug full of used tractor motor oil. The shaft ended up against (but thankfully not in) the tire of my duck boat trailer.
Brannon
i did that to the next door neibors siding in 1963 i was 8yrs old i filled it with plumers putty. well guess what that putty is still thare
Onestringer,
You can't sell the garage door peep hole on ****. It comes too close to infringing on my patented fireplace extra vent hole. On second thought, you may get away with it. To place the extra vent hole, you have to have the arrow fall off the rest at the exact moment of release. No flinching allowed:)
i had one skip of the driveway right thru the lower bag of my dust collector. 100% penetration two "peeps" one arrow.
WOW, this is GREAT! I thought I was the only one who shot up their fence! My wife will feel much better knowing that it is a common and accepted practice among traditional archers!
Matt
I made my first one 20 years ago with a Ben Pearson compound bow and an aluminum arrow.
Yes the peephole works great. The door with the peephole survived hurricane Andrew. So structurally it is sound.
:knothead:
I shoot in the house and I have installed one in my wifes pillow and also one in the blender. The pillow I told her about, the blender she found out for herself :scared: !!! Shawn
I tried to install a peep hole in a sliding glass door. It worked! I got a peep hole 3'X 8' :scared:
I tried one of those peep holes in the back wall of my bedroom.
Didnt work, the dang brick on the outside kept me from seeing anything. :knothead:
I installed one in a neighbors garage a few years ago, he didn't seem to think it was of much value!!!
Shawn: a pillow and a blender??! wish I was a fly on the wall for that conversation!
Good guy I know gave me a plastic keg for me to use for "odd object lifting" (fill it with water, try to lift it, etc.)
I needed something to rest my block target on, while checking nock height..
The height of the keg was perfect. I'm shooting from 10', how could I miss the target, right???
Right????? ;)
just said to a buddy yesterday its been along time since i missed the whole target.guess what last night bareshafting pulled one to the right,now i have a peep hole in my shed my wifes little dog can use
I tried to make a peep hole in the garage door once, but my mother-in-laws piano was in the way!
The wood fence peep hole is tougher....you have to miss the 4x4 posts.
Tried to put a peephole in the basement wall the other night but the cement was too hard, at least I missed the freezer...
I strategically placed a "drain hole" in my pumphouse. It is 6" from the floor so if the pump springs a leak it will drain out. Have not tested it yet. May need to make a few more drain holes cause they are small!