home made range

[Coyote_Hunter]

i wish to make my own little cutom range in my backwoods, what are some tips and suggestions ?

[njbowhntr]

It is kinda costly, but a nice sand pile for a backstop. You, and the people around you, will feel alot safer when shooing into a 20ton pile of sand.

[wtnhunt]

Depending on your terrain where you are, it might not be much to making a range. Lots of hills and gullies here. We setup our targets slightly on a downhill facing towards a gully that has a pretty steep hill behind it. If you are on flat ground, a load of dirt would work well.

[leaddogext]

i wish to make my own little cutom range in my backwoods, what are some tips and suggestions ?

I BUILT MY OWN RANGE SOME TIME AGO AND LOVE IT. WE BUILT A 8ft ELAVATED SHOOTING PLATFORM FOR SAFETY AND NO ROOF (OUR CLUB HAS A ROOF ITS TO LOUD).MAKE IT FACING NE SO THE SUN AND WIND WILL HAVE MINIMAL EFFECT( IF YOUR PROPERTY ALLOWS). HOPE THIS HELPS YOU.

[Reloader]

Ive used back yard ranges at two different places Ive lived, the first was at my dad's place in PA. He had a spot on the edge of the yard picked out for the berm (backstop) and had a buldozer just scrape the ground a few passes to pile up about 8ft of dirt then he built a 2x4 frame to mount targets to or stand plastic bottles on. works great, just had to cut a shooting lane in the trees and build a bench.

The other was at a friends place in Iowa. He bought an old corn field that was terraced and simply put his house on one end and used a 12ft terrace cut to put his target frames against. He uses mostly steel pendulums for his targets as he currently does mostly cowboy action calibers.

If you don't have natural hills in a good spot and can't or don't want to get a bull dozer in there then order a load of sand or fill dirt and have it dumped wherever you want the berm.

One caution, if you use a natural hill, scrape topsoil into a berm, or get a load of fill dirt, CHECK it for significant rocks before shooting to avoid ricochets.