My new backstop....
 

I've been watching this site for a long time and I have gotten some very good ideas here! Thank you all.


So, I guess I want to be flamed since I need some good eyes on my project....


So, please feel free to flame ahead!!!!!





I wanted to get a 50 yd range in my back yard so I could just walk out the door and have something to shoot at.





I have been shooting here for 5 years, 25 yds only, 22, 223, 30 cal, etc...


I have a pretty good area and I just wanted to make it a little more to my liking....... to make it safe, down range.......



here is what I built this last month. I have about 250 acres of crop land behind me, plus a large tree line after that (about another 1/2 mile).

I decided to build this backstop to make me feel better.


Looking for your thoughts.. and if I'm flamed, too bad, this is 500% better than what I've been shooting for the last few years...


Yet, I've got an open mind.......





Double backing timbers, and 5 ft high, 4 1/2 sides single timbers.


This is out to 50 yds so I am happy.

I just got 6 tons of sand to put into it, as you can see not all of it went into it as it was brought over tonight. Something to get my kids to do this weekend......... Yea, right..........




So, what do you think?





Thanks,,,,,,,,

Re: My new backstop....
 

Build a berm behind it , It does not need to be huge but for sure behind the wood and taller than the wood..
In time you will shoot thru the wood..

Just a thought..

Edit:

Missed the sand part...

Re: My new backstop....
 

Layers work better than solid. Move the second layer of the rear wall back another foot and fill the space between the two with sand. I'd flare the sides out to give a wider catch area, and interlace the ends to make it more solid. I'm guessing you drilled the logs and used rebar lengths to hold it all together.

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The professur is right. If you put a layer of 12" of sand in between two walls, nothing you shoot will penetrate.

Why would you be flamed?

Nice work.

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hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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You need to make sure you don't have a slope to the front of that.

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I think that I won't have a choice but to have a slope to the front of that....

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yes, I drilled them and used 1/2" rebar to hold them all together..... Darn thing isn't going to move or open now.....

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looks very safe to me.

Why the curtain picture?

E-A

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Forget about the curtains, there was something else in the dark photo.

http://i28.tinypic.com/ay0qpw.jpg

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I screwed up and put the wrong picture up there. Actually that is a patio umbrella folded up with a huge spider next to it.

Well I'll put up another picture when I get done with the sand today when I get home. So far so good.

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Use a sheet of plywood to make a front. This will both hold the sand in, making your backstop taller, and be a good target backer, to which you can staple targets.

Place your targets as low on the backstop as possible without endangering yourself of hitting the ground in front of it and having a ricochet over the backstop.

Looks pretty nice to me. I just have a big pile o dirt, no wood, for the range in my yard. Unfortunately the bulls have demolished it...:bawling:

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how high is it ?
i would make it taller for a 6 ft human silhouette target ( be careful who sees it though )

http://goldismoney.info/forums/attac...1&d=1253239931

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looks great to me! cheers

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Looks good.

As long as the rounds hit into it. Won't be a problem with a reasonably good and competent shooter.

A novice might not realize that rounds impacting the ground in front of the stop will skip right over it and keep going. Same with shooting over the top of the stop.

Closely supervise who is shooting there.

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I thought the pic was you getting a visit from the Klan. JK

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I don't see that as all that safe and would be nervous walking on the other side of that field, especially if you start shooting a rifle of any kind. As a target backstop area it looks great and you did a good job, but is only one part of the solution.

I would pull it back from the prop line and put at least a 10' high dirt embankment behind it, extending at least 10' to either side as a bullet catch. You really don't know if all the lead is going into the target area and being stopped. Just consider richochets, mis-aiming, ND, scope sight-ins and other errors that can happen

Since you have the sand already in it and can't do much position tweaking and not much room to the prop line for a berm, I would try stacking old tires up (bolt them together or use posts to keep them in place) and filling them with sand/dirt to create a catch-wall behind and to the sides of the target area.

Safety always trumps convenience and cost.

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My primary concern is the lack of a backstop behind the backstop.

Sometimes catastrophic weapon failures will send a projectile 3 or more feet off target-center, which in your case, could end-up in that field behind your backstop.

I would not be comfortable being anywhere but in the prone, directly behind it.

Do you have neighbors, or is that all your property to the rear?

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Well the 300 acres of bean behind me is my neighbor's land (which I can hunt on all 2500 that he owns, and the large tree line behind that is his also.

If you were walking in his fields behind the backstop "HE" would probably shoot you!

Here are some finished pictures. My son and I finished it up yesterday!

Works Great!

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Beautiful.

Now mess it up:coolbeer:

E-A

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Hey EA... Well, It works great!

I've shot everything that I have and nothing goes through it. **** guess I need a .50 now!.......




I can't be more happy with it!

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Hope this helps out others here.



GRP

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Sounds like you have great neighbors.

Congratulations!

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That I do, and I look out for his land and property as much as my own.


I am very thankful to live where I do!




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