My father just bought a wooded plot in rural NJ (yes, such a place still exists). The back of the property has a deep creek bed, and on the other side is a fairly tall (but not too steep - gradual climb) hill that forms the far boundary of a private game reservation. We're planning on building a handgun range for occasional shooting.
I was able to find a perfect spot - a strip about 150' long by 30' wide, with only a few trees that I can easily take down. The problem is that all the areas around it are too heavily wooded to get a bucket in to where we want the backstop, so a berm is out - we're pretty much limited to materials that can be pulled in by a quad.
Any ideas for a relatively safe backstop for handgun shooting (primarily .22 subsonic, but we'll probably want to pull out the 9mm or .45 at some point)? I don't want to put for one of the bullet traps for the .22, as I'd still need something behind it that's pretty heavy.
Thanks for any tips!
I was able to find a perfect spot - a strip about 150' long by 30' wide, with only a few trees that I can easily take down. The problem is that all the areas around it are too heavily wooded to get a bucket in to where we want the backstop, so a berm is out - we're pretty much limited to materials that can be pulled in by a quad.
Any ideas for a relatively safe backstop for handgun shooting (primarily .22 subsonic, but we'll probably want to pull out the 9mm or .45 at some point)? I don't want to put for one of the bullet traps for the .22, as I'd still need something behind it that's pretty heavy.
Thanks for any tips!