[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Personal Backyard Ranges (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/22/2016 9:55:47 PM EDT
How many of you have personal back yard ranges? I have a little section and about a 75 yard range set up on the side of my back yard..no complaints from neighbors but do need some fill dirt behind the railroad ties for rifles, right now just using .22's and pistols..
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Quoted: The little range right outside the back of my shop. It goes out to 100 yards all down hill. I have another spot that goes out to 200 yards, but then we shooting past the house.  http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a405/jabrownii/2014-08-01_18-33-31_664_zpscdebf945.jpg See the door in the pic, step out it and pew pew pew.  http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a405/jabrownii/2014-06-17_21-17-53_301_zpsc50485b1.jpg Ever find a bullet in a corncob? |
| I have had one for over 20 years . What I will tell you guys is make the backstop higher than you think it needs to be. I have found ricochets way high in trees in the woods behind mine over the years . Steel causes ricochets , as do random bullets hitting the dirt berm I have . I used to think they all just dug in but once in a while one will bounce over trust me on this . |
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I have had one for over 20 years . What I will tell you guys is make the backstop higher than you think it needs to be. I have found ricochets way high in trees in the woods behind mine over the years . Steel causes ricochets , as do random bullets hitting the dirt berm I have . I used to think they all just dug in but once in a while one will bounce over trust me on this . Yes, the bounce over. That is also why it is important that there is nothing behind the berm for a good distance. I know there is nothing for about 2 miles behind mine. |
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I have had one for over 20 years . What I will tell you guys is make the backstop higher than you think it needs to be. I have found ricochets way high in trees in the woods behind mine over the years . Steel causes ricochets , as do random bullets hitting the dirt berm I have . I used to think they all just dug in but once in a while one will bounce over trust me on this . Looking at most of these pictures, it seems like most shooters here think leaves are a backstop. 
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I used to have a 200yd range with a bench, right out my back door. I'd wait for calm and run out and test handloads. Then I moved. Now I have a 500 yard range with room for 1000yds now, but it's 10 miles away. I have a little 50yd range out my back door at work that I plink with the pistol.
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What I'm wondering about - I have a hill out back that rises about 600 feet over the course of about 1000 yards horizontal distance.
With terrain like that, is it still advisable to build some kind of berm or other backstop, or is the steeply-rising hill sufficient? I suppose that it's possible that the hill itself has bedrock underneath a layer of topsoil, and so perhaps that would not be the best thing to shoot at. But I'd be interested in info on what people typically accept as a "natural" backstop. |
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Protip: any considerable amount of shooting, or high power rifle shooting in one spot will blow through RR ties in short order, even 2 layers thick(like I had) Exactly is why I want a couple dump truck loads of fill dirt as the back stop behind them..if you read the post i'm only using pistol (9mm) and .22...the property i'm worried about is about 1.17 miles away from the backstop, hopefully should be ok |
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Looking at most of these pictures, it seems like most shooters here think leaves are a backstop. Quoted:
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I have had one for over 20 years . What I will tell you guys is make the backstop higher than you think it needs to be. I have found ricochets way high in trees in the woods behind mine over the years . Steel causes ricochets , as do random bullets hitting the dirt berm I have . I used to think they all just dug in but once in a while one will bounce over trust me on this . Looking at most of these pictures, it seems like most shooters here think leaves are a backstop. NotIssued -- lets see pictures of your backstop? I am actually looking for ideas |
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I have had one for over 20 years . What I will tell you guys is make the backstop higher than you think it needs to be. I have found ricochets way high in trees in the woods behind mine over the years . Steel causes ricochets , as do random bullets hitting the dirt berm I have . I used to think they all just dug in but once in a while one will bounce over trust me on this . Looking at most of these pictures, it seems like most shooters here think leaves are a backstop. NotIssued -- lets see pictures of your backstop? I am actually looking for ideas I live on the edges of suburbia. So, not allowed, even though there's a fee miles of woods behind me (for now). If/when in ever get the opportunity, ideally 10 foot dirt berm. Though I think an old rock quarry would kick ass. |
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Here is mine. Dirt work happened last week. I am in the process of adding tires to the berm for height and erosion control. I have a WIP thread showing what I am doing to the range and targets I am using, and building.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1828275_New_shooting_Range___this_will_be_a_WIP_.html 
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"hell with it honey, lets just make a roof out of this bridge decking!" awesome. 
It's funny you say two things here... Yep, that is some THICK FUCKING metal. I bought 60 sheets of it, 29' long each for $300. It weighed 7500lbs Sold all but 6 sheets that I used on the roof. Two, my wife uses the range more than I do, she is a Texas CHL Instructor. |
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Ben thinking of this also.
I currently use a pile of old stumps we removed when we built the house 10 years ago. Oak and hickory. They are starting to rot and I just stapled a paper target to the end of one. I want to build something more permanent that I can shoot and move on. |
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One thousand yard range behind my house where I host long range precision shoots. Built a shooting/spotting tower out of a scrap deck; works for now. <a href="http://s1330.photobucket.com/user/glodowskikj/media/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0819-X3_zpsmtar62m1.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/w574/glodowskikj/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0819-X3_zpsmtar62m1.jpg</a> <a href="http://s1330.photobucket.com/user/glodowskikj/media/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0734-X3_zpsyyvxytvk.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1330.photobucket.com/albums/w574/glodowskikj/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_0734-X3_zpsyyvxytvk.jpg</a> That's very nice! |
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I own 10 acres and can shoot 200 yards on my property without crossing onto my neighbor.
I live in rural SW Ok and there is nothing around me except cows. My neighbor doesn't care if I shoot past my fence onto his property. That lets me shoot several hundred yards right from my back or front porch. If I drive 2 miles down the road to our family farm I could shoot a really, really long way if I had something that would shoot that far. I am talking 50 cal range if I had one. |
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Man, I am jealous. Good for you folks. Good stuff.
A buddy is close to retirement and looking for 100 acres about an hour away from where we live now. He's already agreed to the range if I help him build it. Won't be my backyard, but it will still be better than my current options. |
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Back when I was big into competition silhouette shooting, I had this range setup at one of our old silage pits.
Still have all the targets (pistol and rifle) Now I just have a range with a high berm of dirt at the end of a cotton field. 
Still have my pistol competition gun with an original Aimpoint sight! For rifle competition I used my grandad's old Remington 510 single shot 22 with a Leupold scope. Hell of an accurate gun! 
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Live on a rectangular shaped 80 acres. When shooting from corner at an angle can get 1000 yards. Guy who owns the land next to us doesn't care if I set up targets on his land so that gets us to around 1500 yards.
Father-in-law has 4000 acres. I could shoot a LONG way on some of his land. |
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What I'm wondering about - I have a hill out back that rises about 600 feet over the course of about 1000 yards horizontal distance. With terrain like that, is it still advisable to build some kind of berm or other backstop, or is the steeply-rising hill sufficient? I suppose that it's possible that the hill itself has bedrock underneath a layer of topsoil, and so perhaps that would not be the best thing to shoot at. But I'd be interested in info on what people typically accept as a "natural" backstop. That's pretty much how it is at my friends house where I do most of my shooting. There's also no way for someone to just wander back there and you would see them if they did. |
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some of you guys with the long distance ranges are really fortunate..
I've got a small 25 yard I use for 22 rf and handguns...once in awhile suppressed rifles for zeroing purposes and checking loads. anything beyond that i head to private club i belong to which is 10 min away or so. you guys that use railroad ties as backstops, do you ever replace them>? |
| I have a decent setup . Have 5 acres, and have my pole barn behind my house that I shoot right out of the window. Have railroad ties setup with dirt in front of them, with treated plywood sides and front to hold the dirt in like a box. Have them at 20,30,40,50,75 yards and at 100 yards have a giant pile of dirt to shoot into . Works very well so far, just finished it before the winter hit here. Shoot mainly my suppressed guns since I have neighbors a few hundred yards away in the opposite direction |