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Tazman, WOW! I believe overkill may be an understatement for one that big. But let me tell you, you'll surely have a nice (and safe) set up.LOL

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Taz...let me know how this works out, I may be interested in doing the same. When you get around to it shoot me an email... [email protected] Thanks and good luck!

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I just built a backstop last weekend and used railroad ties stacked 8 high with logs stood up behind them. It will only be used for a .22 which would never make it through the railroad ties, much less the logs behind them. My set up is in the woods behind my house so looks wasn't important.

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Sheesh.,... or if you'd prefer not having to MAKE one...

http://www.snailtraps.com/new/snailtraps.htm

They have models that will stop a 50BMG round.


Clark

Houston, TX

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Taz, You can buy a good quality bullet trap at most good sporting goods stores with the metal backing you mention. If these do not fill your needs, the NRA used to offer plans for home ranges from their member service center. You don't mention what you have behind your proposed range site, do you have miles and miles of miles and miles or what? I plan to improve my own home range one day utilizing a technique I saw in N.Y. at the Police range where we used to qualify every six months for the C.G. They had a natural embankment to shoot into but enhanced it by stacking old tires in layers, each layer was filled with sand before the next layer was added until it reached a height sufficient to insure no over shoots. This may be a bit of overkill for the backyard but it works fine. The tires and sand combination resist ricochets even after the range has been used for years.

Coastie
"Count the day lost whose low, descending sun
is not, in part, obscured by powder from my gun,"
(Anon)

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Man, more good ideas, seeing as we will strictly be shooting 22 shorts, I can not see spending a ton of money, those snailtraps that JC-1 mentioned a pretty cool, but to much money for what I am looking for.

Coastie, there is a stockade fence directly behind where I am going to build it, 200 feet of woods and then a 40 acre field, I would not call it a hill, but the land is rising behind it and we will be shooting at a downward angle from about 10 foot above where the target will be, the distance from shooting position and target /trap will be 50 ft.

We will strictly shoot 22 shorts and the field is never used and is in full view from where we will be shooting from.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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Taz its just a idle thought but do you have any close neighbors and if so what do they think about it . The reason I asked is I have seen people build close to shooting ranges then sue because of the noise .The sad part of it is they win too. You might be okay but it couldn't hurt to check the zoning also.

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I live in the county so I am okay as far as the zoning goes, I have no neighbors unless you count across the street, on one side of my house is common property which is a large retaining pond and the other side is a 40 piece of property that is all field, behind my house is a small round top road. We will be shooting from the retaining pond side towards the field side. I have a 6 foot stackade fence enclosing the entire backyard/shooting area, behind the backstop is woods, then field all of which is sloping upwards, we will be shooting from the highside of the yard down into the backstop.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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i made one for pellet rifles...not the little baby ones...we shot some 20 and 22 cal pellets at it going about 700fps(about the same as a short i think they get 800 im not sure) and we captured all the pellets or they went down and bounced out not going far at all and not fast at all..we found an old dryer or washer or something like that back in the woods and ripped 2 sided off and used one as the backstop and the other we put on the ground and filled with dirt and sand from a creek to capture more of the pellets..and drilled some holes across the top of the trap and tied up some pop cans and had a blast and didnt have to worry about any houses or anthing(pretty urban area but on 27acres of land some woods and fields but houses all around it and i wanted to be safer..the angle didnt seem to matter much id say a good spot to start would be about 45 degress or so...i think thats about where we had ours...anything thicker than a dryer or washer side panel should work fine...good luck!

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