saxman.. I do the same thing but I will tell you what, when a squirrel decided to sit on my knee, I draw the line. Or I have had chickadees land on the rifle barrel and perch there. You know you're not being noticed.

Bronko about twenty years back a friend and I were walking the hill sides where we could looking into a funnel thicket and I was popping rock, marbles, roundball, and all of a sudden a buck came busting out the other side of that thing and about ran my friend over. I could not shoot because of where he was (plus I was kind of laughing over him falling backwards and sliding down the hill) and he never got a shot off. Yes that does work...