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yankytrash
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My personal range is aimed down a swamp. I left it like that for the longest time until a friend of mine, with the same basic setup, almost shot two kids by accident as they took a short-cut through his swamp.
First I took my boss's skid-steer loader and piled a huge pile of dirt and packed it down good with the machine. The pile's probably a 20' diameter.
Well, that didn't work. My first clipful of 308's flew right through it.
I ran the machine back through the middle of the pile and filled it with logs I had cut down in the past to make the range. I covered and packed them with dirt and I haven't seen a bullet go through it yet.
I've never been to a professional range, so I couldn't tell you how they do it. For indoors, I hear some professionals set a piece of thick plate-steel at a 45 degree angle toward the floor; but as I said, I've never seen how the professionals do it.
First I took my boss's skid-steer loader and piled a huge pile of dirt and packed it down good with the machine. The pile's probably a 20' diameter.
Well, that didn't work. My first clipful of 308's flew right through it.
I ran the machine back through the middle of the pile and filled it with logs I had cut down in the past to make the range. I covered and packed them with dirt and I haven't seen a bullet go through it yet.
I've never been to a professional range, so I couldn't tell you how they do it. For indoors, I hear some professionals set a piece of thick plate-steel at a 45 degree angle toward the floor; but as I said, I've never seen how the professionals do it.
Kye Oat
The range we did in Colorado was cut into a hill side for the 50 yard pistol berms and 12 foot tall walls of dirt to seperate the berms.
The rifle ranges was as well set into the hill side and walls of R/R ties used to terrace the ground behind the 100, 150 and 200 yard markers.
If you have no hill to cut into, I would say 2 walls of old R/R ties, drilled and nailed together and dump a bunch of dirt behind it as well as in front as you go up. That would give you 16 inches of wood and then a lot of dirt....unless you are shooting a .50BMG I should think that it should stop the rest.
Now if you want High Tech, As mentioned as sheet of Armor Plate at a 45 degree angle laid into steel postsset into concrete footings or 2 concrete walls with footings and buried on all sides with earth. Digg out an trench and fill it with sand for thedeflected bullets. Then Make target stand of PVC and set them up about 5 feet from the steel wall. Bullet passes through target at a 90 Degree angle to target, hits armor plate at 45degrees and is deflected down 90 degrees into the sand that acts as a bullet trap.
Then to avoid short cut takers maybe some signs and caution tape letting people know.
Now if you want indoor...been there, done that too.......That is a Bi$$h and high dollar.
Shoot safe and know your target.
Karsten
The range we did in Colorado was cut into a hill side for the 50 yard pistol berms and 12 foot tall walls of dirt to seperate the berms.
The rifle ranges was as well set into the hill side and walls of R/R ties used to terrace the ground behind the 100, 150 and 200 yard markers.
If you have no hill to cut into, I would say 2 walls of old R/R ties, drilled and nailed together and dump a bunch of dirt behind it as well as in front as you go up. That would give you 16 inches of wood and then a lot of dirt....unless you are shooting a .50BMG I should think that it should stop the rest.
Now if you want High Tech, As mentioned as sheet of Armor Plate at a 45 degree angle laid into steel postsset into concrete footings or 2 concrete walls with footings and buried on all sides with earth. Digg out an trench and fill it with sand for thedeflected bullets. Then Make target stand of PVC and set them up about 5 feet from the steel wall. Bullet passes through target at a 90 Degree angle to target, hits armor plate at 45degrees and is deflected down 90 degrees into the sand that acts as a bullet trap.
Then to avoid short cut takers maybe some signs and caution tape letting people know.
Now if you want indoor...been there, done that too.......That is a Bi$$h and high dollar.
Shoot safe and know your target.
Karsten
Art Eatman
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You can find free pallets all over the place. Use this old lumber to build a box, preferably at least four feet high. Fill with dirt or gravel. You can use rocks, as well. Use angle braces in all directions, or the dirt will start forcing the corners and sides apart.
I use an old piece of plywood to cover the front, and staple cardboard to it. I then tape or staple the paper targets to the cardboard. Use a carpenter's level to draw a horizontal line across, to serve as an index for the targets.
Always set your paper targets as low to the ground as you can.
You will eventually begin to eat a hole in the center of your aiming-point area. Clean up the splinters, and nail on a new piece of plywood.
FWIW, Art
I use an old piece of plywood to cover the front, and staple cardboard to it. I then tape or staple the paper targets to the cardboard. Use a carpenter's level to draw a horizontal line across, to serve as an index for the targets.
Always set your paper targets as low to the ground as you can.
You will eventually begin to eat a hole in the center of your aiming-point area. Clean up the splinters, and nail on a new piece of plywood.
FWIW, Art
yankytrash
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I can only WISH I ate a hole in the center of where I was aimin'. I usually eat holes up to rught, to the left, above, and below center; anywhere but center!
