I have two short range(out to 200yds) ranges set up on the west side of our pasture and a long range (out to 1000yds. so far, with room to shoot from at least 1200yds.) over on the east side. I've used the west side ranges for IPSC practice - one is in a sandpit dug into the side of a 100' tall hill, with sand 'berms' surrounding it which allow firing safely in a 180 degree arc as long as you're within 20yds. of the backstop. I've run several invitational matched for our local IPSC club there over the years - room to set up three pistol courses of fire, then we'd move south a little and run a couple of rifle courses with IPSC paper & steel targets set up in small draws (canyons), plus a longer range (out to 350yds) rifle match. Three of the guys in the club are Class III dealers, so after the scored portion of the match was over, and we'd feasted on hamburgers grilled at the range, we'd break out the MP5's, Thompson, Uzi, M1919, etc, and start playing. A local dealer even brought a McMillan 50BMG rifle once, and we proceeded to shoot up a fair amount of Dominican surplus 50 cal. ammo. IPSC has sorta died out here, so I use the sandpit mostly for 50-100yd. practice sessions with a CLE 22RF upper now. The long range is set up with firing pts. at 200/300/600/800/900/1000yds. I don't have pits, just a backstop built up out of silt I dug out of the creek with a front end loader. Use it mostly for XC highpower practice with the AR's, but have just finished clearing tall grass & yucca so that I can fire from prone on the 800/900/1000yd. pts. with a Palma rifle. Need to either build a 4' steel gong or figure out some sort of remote video camera setup for LR shooting. It took me 2-1/2hrs. to chrono 40rds. in 5-shot strings from 1000 the other day - had to jump on an ArticCat 4-wheeler and run clear down to the target to record & paste the target after each 5 shots. Put 9 miles on the 4-wheeler just doing that, but it was too nice a day to squander on anything less satisfying than LR shooting!