Let's see your Private Shooting Range

**ColdDeadHands** · 08-23-09, 13:33

I recently build a small range in the woods of my property. The backstop could be a bit higher but I set my targets low to compensate for that till I'll rent a bobcat again. It's wide enough for 3 Target stands and the furthest distance I can shoot at is 25 yards.

here's a pic;

future plans include;

Extend range to 50 yards
Extend width and height of backstop
Build a Gun Rack
Build a Table

I'll probably build the table and rack next week but the other 2 things will have to wait till next year when I'll rent a bobcat for another project on the property.

Let's see your home grown shooting range!

**Pilgrim** · 08-23-09, 15:08

Hey!

That range looks almost exactly like the one in my 'back yard'. I used a monster sized bucket loader/back hoe my neighbor has to knock down the trees and pile up the dirt. Used a box blade to level the ground, and build a neat little road around it that has two other firing positions with steel reactive targets set up at 25 and 50 yards.

I built it last month as a way to wipe out the South Georgia jungle tangle of kudzu, poison oak, sassafras, thorn covered vines on a two acre spot that was unusable for anything else. There was a bad problem with copperhead snakes in this area also. Another reason for building it was that my other ranges have poison sprayed peanuts and sorghum planted in them now. It's nice to use a range that has a tree cover over it also as the Georgia sun will make training little more than just an exercise in survival right quick. Biggest reason for building a range right next to the house was so that I would only have to walk 50 yards to start shooting instead of the 'cumbersome' 300 yard walk to my rifle range.

I have to keep my targets low also at the main target area as the backstop is only 5 to 6 feet high. We are piling brush on top of that as we find the time to build it up... and as it's a good place to pile brush.

Will have to spray the ground with round up as the jungle is already trying to reclaim my new range.

Got no pics of this range yet... #3 son just broke my Cannon 510 camera... will go and borrow a camera and get some pic up of it for it this evening.

Got other pics of other ranges though...

**RojasTKD** · 08-23-09, 15:31

Originally Posted by ColdDeadHands

I recently build a small range in the woods of my property. The backstop could be a bit higher but I set my targets low to compensate for that till I'll rent a bobcat again. It's wide enough for 3 Target stands and the furthest distance I can shoot at is 25 yards.

here's a pic;

future plans include;

Extend range to 50 yards
Extend width and height of backstop
Build a Gun Rack
Build a Table

I'll probably build the table and rack next week but the other 2 things will have to wait till next year when I'll rent a bobcat for another project on the property.

Let's see your home grown shooting range!

Man I wish I had some land to do that.

Can I be your friend?

**chavez_e_chavez** · 08-23-09, 15:47

if I show you mine then its not Private anymore...lol

**Pilgrim** · 08-23-09, 16:10

If you build it they will come... to go shooting!

I wanted a rifle range within a 10 minutes walk from my backdoor, so I stole my neighbors tractor and built this range on his land.

First target is at 100 yards, then the next one you see is at (honestly measured) 500 yards. Rifle pictured on the bench is a Bushmaster Varminter. This field is about 80 acres in size total. This range worked well, but was too close to the neighbors house who owns the land and he got rather tired of the boom of rifles and the crack of bullets while he was trying to enjoy himself on a lazy weekend... so I stole his tractor again and made another range in an unused field 500 yards further out.

The field to be turned into a range, viewed from the impact area.

Start off with a brush hog...

Then drag a box blade over it a few times to finish it off. This pic was taken while standing on top of a shooting bench. Target is a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood exactly 440 yards out.

A private quarter mile range is a very cool thing to have.

**Pilgrim** · 08-23-09, 16:34

Last year on the above pictured spot, I built a raised (18 feet from ground to roof) and enclosed (4 by 8 feet) shooting bench/hunting blind sort of thing... and then properly outfitted it.

Nothing like roughing it while in the field...

Target is a visible white spot at 11 o'clock viewed through the camo netting. Range is 400 yards.

**Pilgrim** · 08-23-09, 18:12

This is the pistol/rimfire range that I built last month. Don't look like much, but without heavy equipment, it would not have been done. This area was so thick with vegetation you couldn't walk through it. There also was a huge mound of dirt right in the center of the pic that was used to make a small road off to the left... and onto more target stations...

...like this one which is a hardened 3/4x16 inch steel disk hung on a 2x6 frame. Distance here is 40 yards.