So you want your own indoor range? Read on!!

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Tired of going to those crowded public ranges? The outside ones to hot and dirty.

Well here are some modest little ones you can have!

For the guy that has it all. No, I do not know if the models come with it, nor do I know how much!!:D

(also, how to sell anything!!)

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Way to rich for my blood I am sure! Money may not be able to buy you happiness but...........!
 
vonn said:
Way to rich for my blood I am sure! Money may not be able to buy you happiness but...........!
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I'm sure those Vegas fat cats are not worried about the cost !!

Don't think that set up would pass local ordinances here for "indoor gun ranges".....plus that thing has to be loud inside even with ear protection...saw or heard nothing about noise abatement.
 
Hmm.......I've only ever known one person wealthy enough to afford something like that but, even he didn't have a garage big enough to accommodate a 40' shipping container. Then again, he wasn't one to flaunt his wealth. Despite the fact that he was a "self made" multi-millionaire, he was very humble, lived in a modest house and drove around in a Toyota Camry.
 
I grew up in a house with an indoor shooting range. We would would stand at one end of the basement and fire into a bullet trap at the other end! Guess I didn't realize how privileged my upbringing was.
 
My Dad built a custom home for an executive from the gaming industry here in So. Nevada. It was about 1960. The house had a small basement which in it self was a rarity in the Vegas Valley. The basement had a tube built of 4' dia. concrete pipe out for 55 ft. The center line of the pipe was at the perfect height for an offhand shooting position of the owner. There were lights in the far end to illuminate a typical 50' target used by the small-bore indoor galley range competitors. When the shooter was in the prone, sitting or kneeling positions, there was a rolling steel table that had a carpeted top. The owner was a nationally ranked competitor in that .22 caliber competition.

I visited the job as my Dad was finishing up small details. When the owner found out that I was on the UNR Rifle team he insisted that I shoot some offhand with him. It was fun in that he had the best rifles in the world. .........

I know for a fact that whole job, house, basement and shooting lane didn't cost much more than $50,000. ......

Mea Culpa: My memory is very bad. I have my Dad's Job Journal kept while he was a Building Contractor. That job was right at $50,000 in 1960. Thanks for making me do my research.
 
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My Dad built a custom home for an executive from the gaming industry here in So. Nevada. It was about 1960. The house had a small basement which in it self was a rarity in the Vegas Valley. The basement had a tube built of 4' dia. concrete pipe out for 55 ft. The center line of the pipe was at the perfect height for an offhand shooting position of the owner. There were lights in the far end to illuminate a typical 50' target used by the small-bore indoor galley range competitors. When the shooter was in the prone, sitting or kneeling positions, there was a rolling steel table that had a carpeted top. The owner was a nationally ranked competitor in that .22 caliber competition.

I visited the job as my Dad was finishing up small details. When the owner found out that I was on the UNR Rifle team he insisted that I shoot some offhand with him. It was fun in that he had the best rifles in the world. .........

I know for a fact that whole job, house, basement and shooting lane didn't cost much more than $150,000. ......
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$150,000 in 1960? That's like $1.24M now.
 
I can live and shoot in mine.;)

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A friend of mine had an underground shooting range built with his new house - on the plans it was labeled as a storm shelter/wine storage.
8' culvert pipe, ~100+ ' long with a poured concrete floor to make walking downrange easy. Steel angled for a bullet trap, waterproofed, and accessible by a secret elevator. Reloading room is also at the firing end so make up some loads, turn around and test them. RC used as target track. Slightest whisper echos a LOT so gunfire is very loud. Vent system downrange pulls air down and out a vent.
Pretty cool.
 
A engineer friend built a range in his basement .He built a 4x4x12 ft box from sheet steel with the back being a 4x12 ft sheet of armor plate on a 45 degree angle. He also had a ventilation system he got out of a restaurant . He would open a window on the far side of the basement and you could watch the smoke get sucked downrange. He also had 5 6" falling plates and 6 2" squares that all reset by a pull cord.

We used to mostly shoot .22lr but also shot .45 acp/colt and .9mm and .38 spec.. The real fun was when one or two of his full auto Tommy guns or Uzi's came out. The max distance was 17 yards or closer.:D
 
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