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03-26-2015, 03:22 PM
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Rifle range improvements, I now have a 220 yard range in my back yard (pics)...
I have been doing some improvements at my mountain property near Marion, Va. I had a range not far from the house, with a 110 yard shot, but I had my eye on a spot farther up the hill. I hired a guy with a skid steer bush hog to clear a building spot where I will ultimately put a cabin, and had him clear another spot with a 220 yard shot.
I had started clearing this spot with a chain saw, but realized I would wear myself out and my chain saw before getting this spot cleared. It would have taken me two years to do this with a chain saw, but the bush hog did it in eight hours.
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Bennie Cornett of Cornett's Lawn Care with his skid steer bush hog:
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Building site with view:
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Rifle range, first shots with a Rossi M92 in .357 caliber. Orange dots at the end of cleared area are steel targets, 8" in diameter. About 100 yards away at this point. There is a good back stop, as the terrain rises steeply behind this point, probably 300 feet:
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End of the rifle range, looking down the hill. 220 yards from here to where it starts getting steep going down hill:
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03-26-2015, 03:32 PM
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Very Nice! All you need is some friends, bbq, guns, ammo, AND a backstop to keep bullets from leaving your property!
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03-26-2015, 03:36 PM
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NICE....Which days are available for us forum members to use it? It reminds me of my section of Ky.
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03-26-2015, 04:13 PM
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I edited my original post to describe my back stop, the terrain rises steeply behind the range, probably 300 feet or higher. No way a bullet will leave my property.
That is a major concern of mine and of any one contemplating building a range. Noise is another concern, from where I will be shooting it is about 1/2 mile to the nearest neighbor. .22 rifles, pistols and pistol caliber carbines probably will not be heard at all by the neighbors.
My plan is to make a nine hole "Rifle Golf Course", with nine separate shooting stations with steel targets. Something like five pieces of steel at each station, forty pieces total at nine stations, varying ranges from 25 to 100 yards. I have multiple places where a safe shot can be made, with gulleys, creeks and logging trails to make up the shooting stations.
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03-26-2015, 05:04 PM
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If it were me,I'd put a nice little salt lick out around the 100 yard mark
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03-26-2015, 05:34 PM
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220 yards? I smell metric.
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03-26-2015, 05:34 PM
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I almost didn't read this...
Jealousy, envy and disgust was my first reaction. Then I forced myself. Great setup! I would be very happy with a 100 yd, or if not that, even a pistol range.
PS: What orange dots? That's one reason I don't need a range beyond 100 yards.......with a scope.
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03-26-2015, 05:36 PM
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Nice. Set up some steel targets. Always fun.
The trees help with the noise.
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03-27-2015, 02:49 AM
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Aloha,
How many acres do you have?
Can your nearest neighbor hear you shooting?
Something I would like to do after we move to Texas.
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03-27-2015, 04:14 AM
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that looks great i got two rifles zeroed in at 200 ill bring the chicken wings
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03-27-2015, 10:09 AM
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Its double the fun to shoot 200 yards instead of 100 yards and you can "stack" targets anywhere in between. Build a bench to sit on, behind and even lay the guns and ammo on if you want to stand on your hind legs and shoot like a man at the very end. If that rifle is sighted in at 200, it will hit anything within your range. By the way, what is the street address? do not send until you get all those gongs in place, that will give me time to load more ammo.
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03-27-2015, 10:19 AM
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Looks like a great setup and you may add me to the jealous column.
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03-27-2015, 04:48 PM
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Yogi Bear,
The property is 37.6 acres, has a four acre field next to the house, five acres of pines planted about 15 years ago, and the rest is a hilly bit that was logged about seven years ago. Lots of logging trails.
The terrain rises about 700 feet from the road to the top of a mountain, 2300' at the road, 3000' at the top of the hill. There is four wheeler access throughout.
I am sure my neighbors can hear me shoot, as I hear them shooting. Moving my shooting to this cleared 220 yard spot will be easier on the neighbors, I don't think they will hear .22 rifles, .38 revolvers and pistol caliber carbines. Anything louder like center fire rifles and magnum handguns might be heard.
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It is amazing how the shots echo through the hollows. Them there hills make great backstops
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07-13-2022, 04:30 PM
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What part of Virginia is that? Looks beautiful. I have a 200 yd range behind the house. I have it staked every 25yds. I use a portable bench I move with my Polaris Ranger. I also have two steel plates at 70 yds at my cabin. Just to check guns during hunting season mostly.
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07-13-2022, 06:10 PM
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Looks like paradise to me! You've done a fine job, good shooting
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07-13-2022, 07:22 PM
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Very nice. When living in Salem friend had property with old house and barn in Franklin Co, we had a nice range , hunted turkey and deer. Good times.
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07-13-2022, 08:08 PM
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Canoeguy, that’s awesome. My parents are from Greenbrier Co West Virginia. I have an uncle in Covington Va. I hope to make the Blue Ridge mountains my hope within 3-5 yrs.
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07-13-2022, 09:30 PM
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Coveting here. Just coveting. Can't help myself. I want one.
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Canoeguy, you make me homesick. Makes me yearn for a home place I had once near Grundy, VA. We too had a range on top of a mountain at Big Rock Va, near the Kentucky state line.
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