I bought a Millett or some such rest that you could put on your window and place a sandbag over to shoot gophers from the truck. I lost one and haven't been able to find another one, so I decided to try and build one. By the time I had a couple made, I only had about $16.00 in materials and $150.00 in labor. It was cheaper to just buy the original, but when you can't find them, you make them.

I started with 2 inch PVC pipe and cut a slot the fuill length of the pipe...





Then I cut some thin pine lath to put in the top of the pipe for a window stop...






Then I filled the pipe with spray foam to make it solid to put a groove in it to slide on to the window and hold it in place...






Then I cut the foam with a knife to put a slot in the mount to go on the window.





Then I rolled the pipe insulation out and pinned it in a box to keep it open to apply some spray adhesive...






Then I wrapped the PVC with the insulation...






Then to the field to test it and it worked perfectly.

God bless Montana.

0 experience with road hunting.
If it's legal... whatever....


Have shot out of vehicles or from riding on top of vehicles under other circumstances.
No need for a rest....

Nice work, and quite a bit of it. There were times/circumstances where I would be prepared to shoot from the cab. I simply made an adjustable sling and hung it from a little hook arrangement screwed into the area above the window.

Minor league, I will raise you the shooting trailer 😉

Nothing matches
Dove Assault Vehicle

Luby’s Steakhouse chairs, large watermelon-headed retard riding around on it. Being pulled by his dady Uncle Jesse

Looks like it does what it oughta.

$150 in labor?🤨

Serious question (from the east coast).

Why would one ever need to shoot from inside a truck?

I made window rest by cutting a 5” piece of 2x4 off. Then it it twice across the bottom it’s a skill saw 3 1/2” deep to fit down over window. I then glued https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019549984?pid=329075 to 2x4 and used it since the lat 70’s. The rest was a leather one Like in you pic. Takes about 15 minutes to build and worked great.

I've always thought a shooting range should have F250 doors and bench seats for stations, to make practice and annual sight-in more closely resemble field conditions.

Why would one ever need to shoot from inside a truck? Because it's very effective. Lot of times the rodents won't dive down their holes when the truck gets close. Works really well if the driver is right handed and the guy in the passenger side is a lefty.
Not that I'd do anything like that;)

A cut and split foam swimming pool noodle works ok, on a window.
Cheap and can be made with a pocket knife in a couple of minutes

A noodle cut into thirds and then taped together to form a triangle makes a quick lightweight rest for across the pickup toolbox

Decent question. There are circumstances, at least in the big west, where terrain, position, timing, weather, etc. make for an impromptu shooting situation.

Prairie dogs seem to be on the menu. Drive around a 20-30k acre ranch and shoot em as you come upon em.

3/4" Gates heater hose split long ways.

Illegal.

Even on private?

Ummm...

Of course not, Big Jim just doesn't have the time to waste shooting gophers and tries to stop others from doing it...

Won't work anywhere near what the PVC pipe rest will. Keep trying.




You will find out that that noodle won't last an afternoon in the gopher fields...

Better than nothing, but still not the same...

A buddy has one made with 3 pieces of wood glued together to form an upside down U. Carpet all the way around, even up in the U. Snug but slips down over the glass.

It's a Montana thing. We used to shoot all of our Cottontails from the vehicle. Usually from the road !!

Gophers are up now. That thing ain’t got a heater. Just sayin’.

When I used to have a gun shop I sold a lot of rests that mounted on the window. A local guy made them (kind of like Shrapnels) and I sold them for him! They were quite popular with the out of state customers

I know of several guys that shot Coyotes from the Interstate 90 while commuting back and forth to work in Billings! Now I 90 is too busy.

Probably 90% of the Antelope have been shot from a vehicle. (Usually over the hood).

Obviously we have a few neophites here when it comes to shooting varmints. Too may "What if" "Have you ever" "what's for breakfast" threads that have overtaken the shooting threads that made this site great....

Hahaha!

Beats me.


Lots gets done on county roads.



That's where the easy gophers are.

Oh yeah...most of the good guys are just waiting for the bad guys to leave so they can start threads about drawing a ground hog tag finally after 30 years.

Try these window mounts made by Dog Gone Good. Best I have used and they are long lasting.

http://dog-gone-good.com

From their website:

Shooting threads in shooting fora?

Judman gonna need a few of these for ghosting bone!

I've only hunted in Pa., Wva., Va.
Illegal in VA.
Not sure about other 2, but only seen "road hunters" do it.
Obviously legal in the west. Hence the question.

It is illegal to shoot from a road, but not in a pasture...

Not wanting to start a pissing contest, but shrapnel is correct as far as WY goes. I have had to use such a style of shooting since 72. If it hadn’t been legal I’d have been denied a very effective way for me to shoot.

Yep........fish cop catches you here doing it.......ticket

Had one tell me once.....'both feet on the ground'

As mentioned....drive in a field......the 'rimfire' dogs are skittish...they dive underground...till you leave

Set up a portable table....dogs don't know what day it is or where you're at...shooting actually brings 'em up

Utah....public lands...no dog shootin' from April 1st-June 15th....locally they are the 'white tail variety'

pic.....dogs die.......

Shrap...........luv it........

What kind of window resr works best for elk?

Hoping huntsman22 sees this, he could one up you.

Elevated platform with a seat and rest for the shooter, mounted on a 4-wheeler.

With him as the guide/driver/spotter.

Went around the world to make something simple! Just go to your local ass hardware and pick up some foam pipe wrap; same s hit you use to keep water lines from freezing! Its already split for fitting over vehicle windows!

Old school.

It’s obvious you’ve never tried that because that the foam pipe insulation won’t take the abuse of sitting on top of a window and the rifle being rested on it before it comes completely apart.

I was going to ask how fat a person has to be before shooting from inside his truck makes sense, but saw this post and now I know.

Having the hay wagon in the field is a bonus......

Amazing what a 3-4' height elevation makes

Isn't that loud in a pickup cab?

Isn't that loud in a pickup cab?

Herd ya the firrst time

Gold Jerry! GOLD!

Not nearly as loud as it is in Beaver's Mini Cooper.

In PA.....if the PA Game Gestspo Commission catches you with a loaded gun
leaning on a tire, against the vehicle, on a sling on your back with you sitting
on the tailgate...You in heap big trouble Boy!

Montana isn't that far north, come on up and we'll blast some PD's

Its sort of a version of the reverse kneel.

Open the door, brace against the A pillar or the window frame, with one foot on the ground and one still in the pickup.

None of this works well that I've seen, because the vehicle keeps moving around on its suspension. Except for Elk, which doesn't require all that much precision.

Action open and none in the chamber?

Your passengers need to learn to sit still or a beat down shall ensue.

Yep....and the same a ssholes will elect to the US Senate a brain dead bastard like Fetterman!!

It works quite well especially when two pieces are used....one atop the lower layer!

Nope again, that was my first attempt. That insulation doesn't withstand the rigors of resting a rifle on the foam.

Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣

You ain't from Alabama, are you? 😁

If I recall correctly, these were all "window kills". Precision was not needed though, as the targets were not gopher-sized.

Precision can be had from the truck window. I have shot too many sub 1" groups while my rifle rested on the drivers side mirror. If one has not tried it they would be very surprised at how steady you can get with an elbow stuffed in the steering wheel and a rifle over a jacket or towel on the mirror.

A 6000# truck doesn't wiggle much unless it's windy.

Right? Why they all gotta spin the window cranks and shove their barrels out? Suburban looks like a porky pine.

For those that have never spent any of their youth in a vehicle in the spring time assisting farmers with ground squirrels or puttering through mountain meadows plinking you missed out.

Either with a buddy in an old farm truck, curling the edge of pastures, competing for the greatest lift, the most in a row with a single bullet or any of a number of trick shots… you missed out.

Or with a load of the family in an old landcruser shifted into granny low crawling through the mountains plinking heads and hazing any one unfortunate enough to miss. Definitely not a safe space- you missed out.

For those that denounce the unsportsmanship, tout your high morals after you run empty defending a trophy kill from his cannibal buddies.

Farmed used to pay .10 a tail which almost paid for the bullets.

I have shot hundreds and hundreds of prairie dogs from the window of my truck, my hunting companion has probably shot an equal amount from the window on HIS side of the truck. If I get tired of that, might get a little fancier:

Even in California many a coyote has died from an inside the truck shot.
Not on public roads but out on your own private dirt roads in the field it is widely accepted.
Cool DIY rest Shrap.

E-M-P-T-Y!

Not sure that action open is required, but no ammo in the gun at all.
We don't have to case guns, some states do.

I'm told loaded a loaded magazine is a loaded gun if both are in a car in Maryland.
Rumor is a buttstock ammo holder is verboten there.
Don't know for certain about MD.


It's a tricky topic.

Open, or not,
Cased or not,
Fully loaded, loaded mag, shoot from car.....
Sure easy to see how one could get in trouble.
Especially a Good Old Boy not experienced in different states.

That is no rest. Have you ever tried aiming a rifle over the body of a breathing horse. Expect about 18 moa dispersion. And the dumbass soldier in the pic is not even properly using the horse as a barricade.

Thanks for the tip. You got any videos I can look at?

Sure, here you go…

Gitter done!

LOL, that's the same guy who missed five out of six when 10 mm was there.

Use a tailgate.