Post a photo of your home range

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Here are a few pics of my little rifle range. It's about 330 yards to the back and I typically shoot AR500 plates set at various distances... I bring them in close and shoot handguns also. Best of all, it's right out my back door...

That is a nice looking home range, I need to move out of the city !

Nice looking range indeed. I hope to one day be able to afford a home on a farm or at least some rec land to host my own range. For now, the local rifle range really is a pretty good deal.

Casa Grande Elzy Pearson Memorial Firing Range, just south of Casa Grande, Arizona.

cabin tract set up.

This is how I have it set up for the cabin track. The blue barrel is used as a brass catcher. I have other targets set up behind the main ones. The bar supported by two stakes has bulldog clips on it so one can use paper targets if they desire.

I'll put up these photos for a bit, this is our range. My father started it years ago, we slowly add on here and there. The concrete pad, tables and awning were all done in the past couple years, the steel on the range is of varying ages.

This is a decent overlook from on top of the berm



Picture of the awning at the hundred yard mark, this was just after we finished building it, so the tables and locker are all jumbled into the middle. It is actually big enough to use both tables at once and still have room for others to sit around.



Picture of the concrete table we made, next to the older wood one. We still use both.

Trees as backstops is a poor range IMO. I've always been taught to not shoot trees purposefully.

The other ranges look awesome!

Fellow with the trees as the backstop has trees at 330 yards. At that kind of a distance, bullets are dropping like rocks. This is probably why you as his target so close to the ground. I can't really tell without knowing which project else he's launching, but to hit a target at some of those distances you need 20 moa of elevation. Unless you dramatically over shoots, within a few more yards his bullet will hit the dirt.


Hmmm. The pictures of the first range finally loaded. Perhaps you referring to those trees.

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That's an awesome range you've got there!

Thank you, bannockburn.

I'm very grateful we have the place, going out there means a lot to me.

Not that i'm not envious of those who have the room to do it on their property, but using trees as a backstop isn't responsible.

I'd never shoot the trees on my own property

Heck, I don't shoot trees not on my property.

Wouldn't be that hard to put in a proper firing line or open pit with a real berm.

My "home" range,Markham Park, Sunrise Florida. A very cool,well run facility. Broward County supplies the range officers. Very no nonsense but real pros.

I don't think it's about tree hugging. I think it's about adequate backstop and safe control of range access.

Trees as backstops is a poor range IMO. I've always been taught to not shoot trees purposefully.

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He noted several times he has a dirt backstop not visible in the photos. He could cut down the trees and all would die. Some my be damaged by hits and die, but most will survive. I like it. Shooting in the shade is never a bad thing.

No home ranges, but a link to the private club where I'm a member and shoot. Photo gallery on the right side of the home page.

http://www.floydcountywildlifeclub.com/

I might try and post some pictures tomorrow, too late to go and get some tonight, but mine is basically an unimproved range. Simply it is an 80 acre pasture, with nobody living within 1 1/2 miles. All I have to worry about are the cows. I use a hill for a backstop, or alternately, the dam of a small pond. At least it is a pond when we have had enough rain to put water in it.

By shooting diagonally across the pasture, I have a 950 yard range. And, no, I can't hit the target very reliably at that range. Just gives me incentive to try.

When I feel like it, (and the pond has water) I float a two liter plastic jug out on the pond and shoot it rapid fire with the mini-14. Or float pop cans out on it and see how high I can make them go in the air. Honestly, most of my shooting is plinking pop cans at various ranges. The only real 'target" shooting I do with formal targets at specified ranges is with my CC pistol and hunting rifle.

And honestly people, READ the Post before you start making stupid comments. Hammerklavier stated up front that he had a backstop not visible in the pictures.

As far as shooting at trees, His trees, he can do with them as he pleases.

Well, I know how to view a picture, and assuming there IS a backstop, it would have to be hidden by.... drumroll... the TREES... so it's more of a backstop BEHIND the trees.

The comment about being a "treehugger" reinforces my opinion...

Sure, a property owner can cut down all their trees. What's the point. I was and am expressing my opinion that it's irresponsible to shoot trees purposefully - just like when you teach kids to not needlessly damage the bark, drive nails into trees, etc.

If you want a bunch of dead and infected trees then shoot at them. But that picture CLEARLY shows trees IMMEDIATELY behind the targets, and if there's a backstop, it's well behind about 10 rows of trees. Any amount of range time shooting into those targets, leaning against trees, with clearly visible trees immediately behind and in all directions of the targets, is going to result in a lot of bullet strikes into the trees.

Is the OPs 25 yard stand sitting in a big patch of poison ivy?