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Majorlk
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I wish I could shoot at home ...
OK Hog Shooter
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Great shooting bench! Good job. I can't shoot at home (the perils of living in town), but l'm 25 minutes to my acreage with three different ranges... 
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So jealous..... I need my own land.
Dont need a lot of land for target shooting. many county ordinances allow for target shooting. We have just a handful of acres but it is split into 2 haves one half is woods and shooting range other half is chain link fenced and the house. have 7 small dogs sohave to make sure shooting is out back and clear of hazards.
Gatillo
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Before moving into a condominium I used to shoot Colibri rounds indoors through my Ruger Mark III all the time. I had targets set up down a hallway at about 25 ft....fun times.
Gatillo
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Live in town so can't do any shooting here. We use to go about a mile from here and shoot all we wanted to but now it is a subdivison.
We have to drive 20+ miles to the 200 yd public range or 50 miles to a private range with up to 1000 yd targets.
Bill
We have to drive 20+ miles to the 200 yd public range or 50 miles to a private range with up to 1000 yd targets.
Bill
Nice bench! We're blessed with lots of space in a rural area, so I cleared the brush and saplings out of a section of woods and now we can shoot across a swale into the side of the next hill out to about 60 yards. I hung some steel plates and made a hanger for old tennis balls as well as lots of perches for soda cans, water bottles, plastic jugs - anything that will hold water. Last evening we shot some styrofoam coffee cups dug out of the trash from our family Easter get-together. When full of water they blow up in spectacular fashion.
I found an old cast iron well pump in a scrap pile and used it as the base for a table. Not as sophisticated as your bench; it just has a square oak top with brackets to clamp rifles for sighting-in. It's sturdy, though. Had to set it in place with tractor and loader.
BTW, it gives me the creeps when I see a video of somebody shooting at targets set up in front of a wooded area on what appears to be fairly level ground. Yikes! My policy is never to send a bullet in a direction where I can't see exactly where it is going into the ground.
I found an old cast iron well pump in a scrap pile and used it as the base for a table. Not as sophisticated as your bench; it just has a square oak top with brackets to clamp rifles for sighting-in. It's sturdy, though. Had to set it in place with tractor and loader.
BTW, it gives me the creeps when I see a video of somebody shooting at targets set up in front of a wooded area on what appears to be fairly level ground. Yikes! My policy is never to send a bullet in a direction where I can't see exactly where it is going into the ground.
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OldBlood
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If you have a basement, build a bullet trap. Of course, distances to target will be less, but it is nice to just go down stairs and blam away. Don't miss! 1/4 inch plate steel set at about 45 degree angle with 2 by 4 frame. NOT for rifles! Works fine for 38 and a 357 now and then. Great for 22 plinking, daughter shot her fisrt handgun here,(she's a dead eye rifle shooter). I have the bottom filled with 2 by 4's to catch the ricochets but I'm going add a steel bottom, ricochets have a surprising amount of energy. Will add casters with lock downs too, thing is getting heavy. Sorry guys, didn't notice this thread was in long guns, my boo boo. I'll post it over in handguns. .223 goes right thru 1/4 plate steel.
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kbm6893
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I envy guys who can shoot in their own backyard. Ever see the hickock45 videos on youtube? that guy has a SWEET setup!
Jim Kuykendall
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Are you placing sandbags in the bottom to hold your stand down and stop the bullets? I may build one myself. Great job.
Hayden
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Im truely blessed. I started a part time second job 4 years ago on a large ranch. It has progressed into a full time second job with me moving onto the ranch a year ago. Its pretty much shoot all you want and I make 50 & 75 yard targets on the trap range between the trap houses. Its a hoot shooting clays. If I want to bring out the big guns, its targets up to 500 yards off the deck of the ranch house. Good times.
Hayden.
Hayden.
I live in rural upstate NY and have up to a 100 yard shooting area behind my house. Have a 700' mountain as the backstop.
I can use it most anytime I want as the only law that covers shooting in my area is a Encon law that says no shooting within 500' from a occupied dwelling unless you have permission. A few weekends a year our summer neighbors show up and do to distance to legally shoot I'm restricted to up to a 75', which is good for pistol.
Actually I hardly shoot when they're there as I have so much other time to shoot. Trying to be a good neighbor!
I can use it most anytime I want as the only law that covers shooting in my area is a Encon law that says no shooting within 500' from a occupied dwelling unless you have permission. A few weekends a year our summer neighbors show up and do to distance to legally shoot I'm restricted to up to a 75', which is good for pistol.
Actually I hardly shoot when they're there as I have so much other time to shoot. Trying to be a good neighbor!
stavman11
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TOYS are AWESOME arnt they....LOL
Took me and the wife 40ish Minutes to drive to our AZ desert Shooting Spot... well worth it..... Indoor range is only 10 minutes away... so when it Hits 110degs thats where Ill be
NICE Bench Buddy..... nice and Sturdy
Took me and the wife 40ish Minutes to drive to our AZ desert Shooting Spot... well worth it..... Indoor range is only 10 minutes away... so when it Hits 110degs thats where Ill be
NICE Bench Buddy..... nice and Sturdy
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