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That's a pretty good deal, thanks for the link.

That is good. I can frame my 2 windows to 24"x12" and real windows for $56 is a good deal. Wish I'd known about these last summer.

on that place, imvs vertical slide woudl be by far my choice.

The hinged ones or horizontal sliders over the years I've just decided are not the ticket. While the vertical slides are for sure.

But thats just me.

Though I bougth the 36 inch ones for 36 bucks, not quite as high as they are. But from a blind place that I talked into selling windows only...

It took me a while but I finally figured out how to make good windows that were cheap and worked very well. My walls are 3/8" plywood but I use a 2 X 4 under each window as a shelf and rifle rest. I cut a thin slot in one edge of each 2 X 4 and the slot goes up and next to the window. A piece of plexiglas fits down into the slot. I use small blocks of wood with a wood screw in the center above the glas to to keep or release the glas and let me take it out. The 4" side is horizonal and makes a small shelf.

The local hardware will cut the glas to my measurements and it works well. I use camo mesh that is attached above the window and that I can let fold down to make it much harder to see inside. (curtains)

The window sills (the 2 X 4's) are at a height that lets me sit in the office chair and comfortably rest my hand holding the rifle on the sill providing a good, solid rest. I really hate wounding game. The office chair is adjustable for height and can be made to exactly the right height for shooting comfort.

The glas has to be the correct width to fit the window well but needs to be about 2" higher. It will then rest against the 3/8" plywood wall and keep everything flush and (reasonably) air tight.That keeps everything solid and you screw the little woods toggles in above the glas. Simply twist them to hold or release the window.

I hope that I'm articulate enough to make the above clear. I've thought about making blue prints and selling them but, I always got paid to design things and I'm retired and my drawing board hasn't been used for years.

Note... the 4-1/2' X 5-1/2" dimensions are critical. 4" X 4' is much easier but too restrictive to have enough room. I mean, where you gonna put the TV?

Terrible problem... It's deer season, it's warm and not raining temporarily. I saw deer yesterday. It's Thanksgiving morning and the Lions play at 12:30. That 20" twelve point is still out there looking for does.

I can go sit in my blind, it's just across the road, and light the heater and be perfectly dry and comfortable. Instead I'm sitting on my butt playing computer... what an arsehole.

Get him tomorrow!

The lions were way ahead. Did you get out to the blind?

And what kind of fool would not allow women/spouses on the property? If it was my property, I would ban men and allow women. They are much easier on the eyes!

At halftime the Lions were comfortably ahead and I decided to go hunting and trust them to win without my armchair coaching... they did.

It was raining and I carried the gun to the blind in it's case, lit the heater and got comfortable. Mid-afternoon there were three quick shots from the property next door followed by a couple more a little later. Sounded like they all came from the same place. The rest of the afternoon I kept hearing loud voices from there... they were obviously looking for a wounded deer. That property starts about 200 yds. West of my blind and, with all the racket, nothing, absolutely nothing, was moving where I was.

I stayed there for a while waiting to see if their wounded deer would come by me. I would have killed it and given it to them. It didn't and a little before dark I packed up and went home. It was really nice and comfy out there in spite of the scattered rain showers but no action. The previous day there had been lots. Unfortunately it's a holiday weekend and the woods will be full of last minute hunters. Season ends Monday. When there are hunters in the woods all our deer get really nocturnal.

There is a muzzle loader season in Dec. Interesting thing here... All the muzzle loader shots you hear sound just exactly like a 30-06. Glorya was out one morning years back and came in laughing her arse off. Some guy had got off five black powder shots in just a few seconds. I never could load a muzzle loader that fast. ?????

The Lions won comfortably without my help. They just fired a couple of big shots and, all of a sudden, we gotta team. When they beat the Pack a couple of weeks ago, I decided we are gonna do good the rest of the season.

Years back, shortly after we were married, Glorya and I went over to the property one day before season. The guys were sighting in. Everybody but me and the owner were just casual deer hunters. They were splattering shots all over the paper. After a while I got out a little Sako Vixen .222 we had in the car and had Glorya shot a group. I don't remember, three or five shots, (Edit...I remember, it was five shots. She kept the target.) but it was smaller than a nickel at 100 yds. This did not make the guys happy.

The next day the owner came over and said she couldn't hunt there. They didn't want her wandering into the house if they were dressing. BS!

That makes no sense at all. We all get outshot, nothing special about getting outshot by a woman! Mental pygmies!

Right! They were just macho guys and not very sophisticated hunters. Had a problem getting shown up by a woman.

Re: getting beat by women... In the 60's and 70's I shot on a really good smallbore rifle team out of the Saginaw Gun Club. We had eight members on the team and seven of us, including me, had NRA Master classifications. We shot gallery all winter long. We won the league for something like eight or ten years straight.

Anyway, my buddy's daughter shot with us when she was in high school and college. She and I always bet a quarter on every match. I think I helped put the damned kid thru college.

Her Loveliness (Mrs. Wright) andf I shot benchrest for years till she finally took a job at the local Indian casino as a finance manager. For years after she quit shooting I woud get a load of s--- everytime I went to a BR match, "What are you doing here... Where's the first team?".

Women are normally a delight to teach to shoot. Men are normally a real PIA. This is the Northwoods and men may be poor but they are sure macho. Don't even think about telling them that they don't know what they are doing with their rifle... or their gun for that manner.

Dick, We guide hunters from all over the world, I swear when their plane crosses the Red River , they all turn into John Wayne, and I have seen more than one Annie Oakley, send them to the house. Rio7

Back when I was a younger I did a lot of hunting out West. I got to know a couple of guides pretty well. They both told me that they really cringed when dudes showed up, all dressed in new, fancy, expensive hunting gear, and with new Weatherby .300's. Most of the dudes were scared [bleep] of pulling the trigger on the Weatherby's and most had shooting problems. Lots of chasing of wounded game.

When I showed up I had good but worn clothes that showed they had been used... lots. At that time I collected really good, expensive custom rifles, but, if I had one with me, I, also, would have one of my pair of rather beat pre-64 M-70's in .270, maybe 80% guns. Plain rifles, with 4X scopes (per Jack O'Conner), well used, but both were real shooters. If a horse was gonna roll over on the gun, it wasn't going to be a Griffin & Howe.

It was amazing how quickly I got acceptence and respect from the guides. I've posted this part elsewhere but it's been one of life's good lessons.

Our firearms deer season ended 30 Nov. However, muzzle loader season starts 4 Dec. and lasts about a week and a half.

This year has been remarkably warm for deer season. It averaged highs in the 40's almost all of season. I remember very well going hunting at zero degrees years ago.

Chances are that our deer will have a chance to clam down after the frenzy of the last two weeks with all the hunters in the woods. The secondary rut will keep bucks moving so there is always a chance for a trophy.

The weather forecast for the first three days of muzzle loader season is for a high of 50 degrees.

I may yet get to see the big guy.