With all the "what's your" and "show me" threads, I thought i fall in with the trend.
Do you shoot in your backyard? Out your back door? In the woods behind Grandma's house?
Let's see it!
Now before we get started, let's not turn this into a pissing contest about safety and bullet overtravel and all that stuff. While it's important, we will assume everyone that posts in this thread has taken into account the safety aspect of where/how they shoot.
Feel free to ask questions about setup and safety measures, but keep it constructive please.
I've got no pics of the mini-berm I shoot at in the woods, but here's my .22 range in the backyard. It has stops at 25, 50, and 90 (paced) yards with steel spinners and a bullet trap box for easy lead containment and added safety. There's an old beatup picnic table at the line that's my shooting bench.
At 50 yards, I stacked logs in an arced shape around a spinner set to catch lead splatter and catch/severely slow the occasional miss (I only shoot from a benchrest). If I want to shoot paper targets at 25 yards I just move the bullet trap up. The spinners at 90 yards are backed by a large, dying, triple trunk tree, providing a nice backstop.
The land slopes upward gently the further you go out, and between google earth and .22lr trajectory numbers, I've figured it's perfectly safe to have my little range as long as I'm not just lobbing bullets around.
Anyway, here's the pics.
The orange soda bottle is covering the rebar marking 25 yards. The log pile and bullet box can be seen at 50 yards, and if you look carefully the spinners can be seen at 90 yards right above the center log. The line of sight is so close to the ground I have to go along and pull up small plants that are blocking my view of the target!
The second pic is through the scope at 9x looking at the spinners at 90 yards. Pretty easy once you figure out the 5 inches of holdover!
If anyone's wondering, I do have neighbors. Once they found out I'm an adult, target shooting with safety measures in place, they don't mind me shooting at all. BTW, they are a measured 75 yards through the woods to the left side of my shooting bench. I still keep the amount I shoot down to about 20-50 rounds at a time and I shoot subsonics as much as possible. Never had a complaint yet.
So let's see 'em!
Do you shoot in your backyard? Out your back door? In the woods behind Grandma's house?
Let's see it!
Now before we get started, let's not turn this into a pissing contest about safety and bullet overtravel and all that stuff. While it's important, we will assume everyone that posts in this thread has taken into account the safety aspect of where/how they shoot.
Feel free to ask questions about setup and safety measures, but keep it constructive please.
I've got no pics of the mini-berm I shoot at in the woods, but here's my .22 range in the backyard. It has stops at 25, 50, and 90 (paced) yards with steel spinners and a bullet trap box for easy lead containment and added safety. There's an old beatup picnic table at the line that's my shooting bench.
At 50 yards, I stacked logs in an arced shape around a spinner set to catch lead splatter and catch/severely slow the occasional miss (I only shoot from a benchrest). If I want to shoot paper targets at 25 yards I just move the bullet trap up. The spinners at 90 yards are backed by a large, dying, triple trunk tree, providing a nice backstop.
The land slopes upward gently the further you go out, and between google earth and .22lr trajectory numbers, I've figured it's perfectly safe to have my little range as long as I'm not just lobbing bullets around.
Anyway, here's the pics.
The orange soda bottle is covering the rebar marking 25 yards. The log pile and bullet box can be seen at 50 yards, and if you look carefully the spinners can be seen at 90 yards right above the center log. The line of sight is so close to the ground I have to go along and pull up small plants that are blocking my view of the target!
The second pic is through the scope at 9x looking at the spinners at 90 yards. Pretty easy once you figure out the 5 inches of holdover!
If anyone's wondering, I do have neighbors. Once they found out I'm an adult, target shooting with safety measures in place, they don't mind me shooting at all. BTW, they are a measured 75 yards through the woods to the left side of my shooting bench. I still keep the amount I shoot down to about 20-50 rounds at a time and I shoot subsonics as much as possible. Never had a complaint yet.
So let's see 'em!