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I though I'd share the project I completed this year. I am a member of a local Rod and Gun Club with excellent range facilities, but I have always wanted a personal range.
I own a cabin with approximately 40 acres in a remote area. In 2016 I put in a large fish pond that is approximately 60 feet long and 9 ft deep. (Use it for large brook trout.) When working on that and diverting a small steam, I noticed I have a huge steep embankment on one corner of my property that would make an excellent backstop. When I measured it off, I found it was almost exactly 80 yards from the deck on my shed. This was too good of a coincidence not to take advantage of...
Here is the pond I built in 2016. (110 tandem loads of bog removed and 90 loads of rock put in.)
Here is the woods in the area before I started. Heavy (old) black spruce with tangly bushes:
I then cut out a 9 foot pathway back 50 yards to the edge of a little brook. It took 3 days to cut the pathway and thin out the surrounding woods to make it attractive. Here is a pic of me disposing of the brush:
Here is the remaining 25 yards to the 75 yard target. I built a bridge over the little brook shovelled red stone to make a walkway to make a path to the final target:
We shovelled 60 tons of rock and 45 tons of red stone to make the first 50 yards of the range:
My dogs weren't much help:
In the end, we placed target stands at 15, 30, 40, 50 & 75 Yards. They are 12 foot long pressure treated 8x8 sunk 6 feet down in the ground. They use 2x10 for backstops that are easily changed. We also topped them with solar lights, and lighted gold coloured yardage markers.
I finally built a large range bench on the edge of my garage deck. Here is the view looking down the range:
Finally, I built some custom range stands that allow me to hang metal targets (AR500 gongs) and allow me to place larger target stands on top of them. I also built 2 wood horses which allowed me to hang 12 more AR500 gongs from 1" to 6":
Here is a picture of the final project. There are a total of 49 steel targets on the range:
While it was a lot of work, I am very satisfied with my new range.
Thought I'd share the construction process with you all.
I though I'd share the project I completed this year. I am a member of a local Rod and Gun Club with excellent range facilities, but I have always wanted a personal range.
I own a cabin with approximately 40 acres in a remote area. In 2016 I put in a large fish pond that is approximately 60 feet long and 9 ft deep. (Use it for large brook trout.) When working on that and diverting a small steam, I noticed I have a huge steep embankment on one corner of my property that would make an excellent backstop. When I measured it off, I found it was almost exactly 80 yards from the deck on my shed. This was too good of a coincidence not to take advantage of...
Here is the pond I built in 2016. (110 tandem loads of bog removed and 90 loads of rock put in.)
Here is the woods in the area before I started. Heavy (old) black spruce with tangly bushes:
I then cut out a 9 foot pathway back 50 yards to the edge of a little brook. It took 3 days to cut the pathway and thin out the surrounding woods to make it attractive. Here is a pic of me disposing of the brush:
Here is the remaining 25 yards to the 75 yard target. I built a bridge over the little brook shovelled red stone to make a walkway to make a path to the final target:
We shovelled 60 tons of rock and 45 tons of red stone to make the first 50 yards of the range:
My dogs weren't much help:
In the end, we placed target stands at 15, 30, 40, 50 & 75 Yards. They are 12 foot long pressure treated 8x8 sunk 6 feet down in the ground. They use 2x10 for backstops that are easily changed. We also topped them with solar lights, and lighted gold coloured yardage markers.
I finally built a large range bench on the edge of my garage deck. Here is the view looking down the range:
Finally, I built some custom range stands that allow me to hang metal targets (AR500 gongs) and allow me to place larger target stands on top of them. I also built 2 wood horses which allowed me to hang 12 more AR500 gongs from 1" to 6":
Here is a picture of the final project. There are a total of 49 steel targets on the range:
While it was a lot of work, I am very satisfied with my new range.
Thought I'd share the construction process with you all.
I’d never leave....
