ORIGINAL: Tenmilephenom
Hey guys i got a problem with all my trees getting shot up. We do alot of shooting at camp with no backstop to stop or catch the bullets. Where we are we cant get equipment in to haul dirt or sand so we're kind of limited. Anyone have any ideas what we can make to stop our lead and save our trees!!
Kerry
Believe it or not, it is STILL POSSIBLE to do this kind of work w/o any power equipment at all-just picks and shovels!! It does take loanger, but as Napoleon said, "Where a man can stand, an Army can pass."
You can outline the back of the thing with railroad ties, nail heavy landscaping timbers across the "open' front end, (these hold in the fill & give you something to attach target frames to),then fill the space inside with dirt
with shovels. OR, you can fill sandbags somepace for the outside walls,and bring them in on a 4X4 w/trailer.Either way, some manual labor is involved. But it's no big deal!
I built my own, it was 12'X12' deep 8' high, and had about 10 tons of dirt in it. When finished, I'm sure it would have stopped a 20mm aircraft cannon round....... (fired single-shot!!)