forindooruseonly
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I'm fortunate to be in a family that has it's own range. I've posted about it elsewhere, but the bottom line is that we have a pretty nice range with an excellent berm, a concrete pad and awning at a hundred yards, along with a concrete shooting table and a solid wood shooting table, a number of steel targets, and lots of pasture to back up further if wanted.
I'd like to do some winter improvements and for the fun of it, thought I'd throw it out to the forum to see what ya'll think would be a good next project.
I have a few ideas.
1. - Build some steps up the side the of mound to the pad and awning. My father is having more trouble getting around, so this was the originally planned project for this winter. However, he preempted this by starting to simply drive up the hill and park next to the awning, so he is no longer walking up and down the mound.
2. - Buy more AR500 targets and build more stands. Most of my steel is softer, good for handguns but bad for rifles. I'd like to have more steel capable of taking rifle shots. That said, only about 10% of my shooting is with rifles and of that, 90% of my rifle shooting is for groups with load development and benchrest style shooting.
3. - Start working on another pad and awning. This would be a big project, but it would be fun to have a pad and table way out in the back of the pasture at 600 yards. If i did this properly, it could make for a decent deer blind as well.
4. - Same thing as number 3, but closer in. Say, at 50 yards. Since most of my shooting is handguns, it's not much fun in the summer when the temperatures are 100 plus. So shade would be lovely.
5. - Building a set of moveable barricades for IPSC/IDPA style shooting. It would be fairly easy to build up some frames for doors and windows and stuff out of scrap wood. Then I could drag them around to simulate competitions. I have a few friends who are interested in this, but I've been dragging my feet. For now we just use shot timers and designated spots and targets.
6. - Build another concrete table. I'd like to have another concrete table that isn't ambidextrous. That way both shooters on the pad would have a super solid table. The current wood table works fine for now, but is weathering quickly.
7. - Other. If not one of the above, what would you do? I'd like to hear suggestions about what you would do with it if it was your range.
Recycled pictures of the range as it is. Awning and pad are hard to see, but there. I'd like to do whatever it is I'm going to do before summer, as it gets too hot and my hands get full with simply mowing and weed-eating the range and trails.
I'd like to do some winter improvements and for the fun of it, thought I'd throw it out to the forum to see what ya'll think would be a good next project.
I have a few ideas.
1. - Build some steps up the side the of mound to the pad and awning. My father is having more trouble getting around, so this was the originally planned project for this winter. However, he preempted this by starting to simply drive up the hill and park next to the awning, so he is no longer walking up and down the mound.
2. - Buy more AR500 targets and build more stands. Most of my steel is softer, good for handguns but bad for rifles. I'd like to have more steel capable of taking rifle shots. That said, only about 10% of my shooting is with rifles and of that, 90% of my rifle shooting is for groups with load development and benchrest style shooting.
3. - Start working on another pad and awning. This would be a big project, but it would be fun to have a pad and table way out in the back of the pasture at 600 yards. If i did this properly, it could make for a decent deer blind as well.
4. - Same thing as number 3, but closer in. Say, at 50 yards. Since most of my shooting is handguns, it's not much fun in the summer when the temperatures are 100 plus. So shade would be lovely.
5. - Building a set of moveable barricades for IPSC/IDPA style shooting. It would be fairly easy to build up some frames for doors and windows and stuff out of scrap wood. Then I could drag them around to simulate competitions. I have a few friends who are interested in this, but I've been dragging my feet. For now we just use shot timers and designated spots and targets.
6. - Build another concrete table. I'd like to have another concrete table that isn't ambidextrous. That way both shooters on the pad would have a super solid table. The current wood table works fine for now, but is weathering quickly.
7. - Other. If not one of the above, what would you do? I'd like to hear suggestions about what you would do with it if it was your range.
Recycled pictures of the range as it is. Awning and pad are hard to see, but there. I'd like to do whatever it is I'm going to do before summer, as it gets too hot and my hands get full with simply mowing and weed-eating the range and trails.
