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Holy thread resurrection Flashman!
Comes at an opportune time, I've just started taking my son to the local range as a distraction from the GCSEs, we're quite enjoying the plinking, and amazed at how accurate even duffers like us can be with the PCP guns and scopes. I'd be tempted to buy one but our back garden has an alley down the back which is technically a roadway so wouldn't be legal separation. A great way to clear the head though, an hour or two struggling to get to that middle dot.
As in running across the back or just adjoining?
If the latter it is perfectly legal to shoot within 50' of a highway provided you neither injure, endanger or interrupt passers by. So long as you have a good backstop I see no reason why you couldn't safely shoot in your own garden. Of course you have to ensure no ricochets go into adjoining land or that's a firearms offence which is, again, easy to do with the correct backstop. Add on a good moderator and people will be none the wiser as to what you're doing.
The garden has full 5-9' walls and fences all the way round, with at least 7' walls along the back. Behind that is the alleyway, which is 10' wide, and not much used, then beyond that are the back walls then gardens of the next street along. I had assumed the alleyway being a highway/public space would have ruled it out. Anyway, the range is close enough, and cheap enough to keep me amused for now, and aside from the pair of bully magpies, I've never thought of wanting to pop at anything in the garden.
Much success over the last couple of evenings. Pigeons in the parental patch yeaterday, and rabbits at Flash Towers this evening. Only one needed an extra little help, all the rest clean shots.
Pigeon and rabbit pie, yum.