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Info on building a small outdoor range
sweaver
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I'm going through the motions now of buying a 14 acre parcel and want to put up my own small shooting range in one corner. I have been googling a bit this morning and cant find what I'm looking for. I am no carpenter by any means so I need plans or blue prints to follow. I want to build a roofed shooting area with three stations and a large backstop about 50 yards away. Can anyone point me to a good place to get this info?
Thanks,
Shane
Thanks,
Shane
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I have 10 acres and have used my "home range" for years, but the city is moving in around me and I have gone to "22 only" in a hope to stretch out the time I have left before I will have to give up shooting there. We had to give up trap/skeet because of complaints of the new 'city folk'.
According to the statutes I got from the clerk of court, a rifle cannot be fired within 5 miles of any occupied building... ( I hope they don't check the deer lease !)
This is in NO WAY good advice, but it is advice.
NOW...quietly check things out. Forgiveness is easier to get than permission.
If we do not hang together,
We will most certainly hang separately.
My wife wants a me to build a gazebo, and I bet you can guess what it will have a view of.
Gotstolefrom, where are you at that has arcane laws like that?
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roysclockgun
Shane
I will never have to worry about neighbors or anything like that. The property on three sides is owned by a timber company, about 300 acres worth at least. The area I'm looking to build is pretty level so I was thinking of constructing some sort of framework that I would fill with dirt, effectively creating my own boxed in berm but I'm curious to see if anyone else has done this. As for the lead clean up, the EPA wouldnt even be able to find me out here.
Shane
[xx(][xx(] again like he dog said, better safe than sorry. if your going to do this...might as well do it right. my .02
For safety you could then bolt some type of sheet metal back to it in the unlikely event a bullet should completely penetrate the RR ties.
You could put a piece of cheap plywood on the front side to staple paper targets to. Or built some type of bench to set in front of it, to set cans etc on.
RR ties are cheap at most farm stores (approx $8 apiece). Your largest expense would be the sheetmetal backing. Would probably want something heavier that corrigated tin. Probably 14 or 16 ga steel at least.
Extremism in persuit of Freedom is no vice.
Shane
I could send you pictures of my shooting bench. Its made from lumber yard scrap and one sheet of 3/4 plywood. I can put the basic dimensions for you if that will help.
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