[I Buried My Guns]

I strongly agree with the technique of shooting from a window. I use it when I am at the kitchen sink doing dishes and the opportunity arises. If you stay back a few feet the noise is indeed muffled, from your neighbor's perspective.

The downside is the decreased field of view: I cannot fully track the squirrel through my yard unless I open the window all the way up (which is loud and creaky), so it requires one more form of discipline, that of knowing when to take your shot, and when to just let the critter live one more day/hour.

[ArrogantBustard]

This is essentially an exercise in sniping ... shooting from within a building is standard fare ... perhaps other aspects of sniper fieldcraft could be adapted to the short range and small size of the current enemy?