Your Backyard Range

[Bendrx]

Plenty of room for 1K yard shots all day, noise doesn't seem to be an issue either, just have to watch for cars down range. The center median is good for bench shooting as well.

On a serious note, some nice set up out there.

 

[MinuteMan47]

And this is how a real red neck does football, at the range! Lol. in the back yard.

That looks like cartoons to me...

 

[DaKruiser]

That looks like cartoons to me...

Cartoons, I don't watch no stinking cartoons! Well, maybe, only when the kids are watching.

 

[8baller]

This is my 50 yard range I just finished. 31 railroad ties and 13 tons of sand.

what happened to the chicken coop?..

 

[jmildoc]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1842&pictureid=10013

 

[IndyTech]

Man, these ranges make shooting cans off of fence posts @ 25 yards seem like childsplay!!

 

[semperfi211]

what happened to the chicken coop?..

Tore it down for my berm. Shooting is more fun than raising chickens.

 

[esrice]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1842&pictureid=10013

What is your backstop?

 

[jmildoc]

What is your backstop?

Ravine........and about a million trees

 

[Naptown]

Cartoons, I don't watch no stinking cartoons! Well, maybe, only when the kids are watching.

"I think Tinley dreams in cartoons..." I'm gonna get called out for this one. Bracing...

 

[drbarnes]

You guys got it nice! I have to drive an hour to Atterbury whenever I want to shoot.

 

[DaKruiser]

You guys got it nice! I have to drive an hour to Atterbury whenever I want to shoot.

If your in Indy, you should try Marion County Fish And Game! Very nice range, even better people!

Marion County Fish & Game Association

 

[esrice]

Ravine........and about a million trees

Gotcha. The picture made it look like is sloped down behind the targets.

 

[rjstew317]

man i'm jealous, if i even step outside with my guns out of the case Carmel PD would be here in seconds. i need to get a some land out in the country.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Well, I used to have pictures of our family range around somewhere... 500 yards, steel and paper hangers.

Unfortunately, I moved to southern IN for work and I am now 3 hours away from our range... So I don't shoot much anymore.

I'd love to find a place to shoot but so far I haven't found anywhere that was reasonably priced; nothing free around here unless you know somebody with some land.

 

[YogiRC51]

My closest neighbor is about 300 yards away and not in the direction that I shoot. Other than the railroad ties the burm is all sand, no rocks. It is 6 feet tall. I only slow fire and keep the targets low. I plan on going a little higher next year.

Thanks for the info.

 

[braz007]

Here is my work in progress! The paper plate is for the kids and their air guns, the squares are steel at about 30 yards. Then at the back is two sycamore logs six foot tall and about two foot thick, they have six pie plates on them, their about 60 yards.

And this is how a real red neck does football, at the range! Lol. in the back yard.

Outstanding set up fellow redneck... When are you having a party?

 

[RoyalTenenbaum]

I want to go to there.

lovemywoods and I have built a range on his property, and we are both very proud of it. We also enjoy sharing it with INGOers through such events as NFA Day and the recently hosted MDFI courses.

Actually, its more like 4 ranges.

The 'main' range uses the lake dam as a large frontal backstop, with rising hills on the two sides, giving us 180 degree shooting. Front-to-back is 25 yards, and side-to-side is 50 yards.

Here is when we installed several water drainage lines underground:

The next range runs along the top length of the dam, giving us easy access to 50 yards for sighting in rifles.

The third range starts in the middle of the dam, shooting to the other side, which is 206 yards away. This allows the rifles to stretch out and breathe a little bit.

The fourth range, and clearly the most redneck , is a cropping of hanging steel plates, shot from the elevated back porch. (I can't find a picture of the plates, just Kr_Treefrog2 poppin' muskrats)

And of course, every private range needs stuff to shoot at/on/with. lovemywoods is excellent at building stuff, and no detail is too minor.

PVC target stands: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...sion/72420-lightweight_pvc_target_stands.html

Target stand for steel: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...ade_target_stand_for_long_distance_steel.html

Shooting bench: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...3-built_my_own_shooting_bench_-_pictures.html

 

[esrice]

I want to go to there.

Signup for NFA Day '11 is only 10 months away!

 

[loony1]

well, it's not quite my backyard but it is my family farm a short drive away.