I've been building a range on my property, and am trying to improve it a bit.
The area I live in is rural, but there are a few houses around so I'm trying to be as safe as possible. The place I'm building my range is way down in a holler, and I'm shooting straight into a hillside. I had to drop a few trees to get a shooting lane, and was going to use those as a backstop. However the only thing I'm really worried about is richochets. Number one, the logs are round, and number two once they season, they might be pretty hard.
I thought about using tires filled with sand as a backstop, but really don't want that many junk tires laying around.
So I was thinking about using square straw bales with plywood or corkboard for the front to attatch targets to. I figure they're fairly dense, especially once they get rained on a bunch, and would slow a .223 or .308 down quite a bit. And that if I stacked it up two bales thick, it would more than do the trick.
Opinions?