Buy Your Own Damn Range

[Slugless]

If you're going to buy, buy sooner rather than later.

The baby boomers are retiring.

The prices in my area in Colorado have doubled to 4x in the last decade.

 

[mmay1]

I do believe Terlingua is quite a ways from everywhere.

 

[perdurabo93]

I believe the NRA has some info on their website about building a range.

I think this is what you're referring to:

http://www.rangeinfo.org/resource_l...ign/baffles_berms.htm&CAT=Facility+Management

15' berms? Baffles framing the target area? That would cost me tens of thousands of dollars to prevent an extremely unlikely event. I am not going to build an anal retentive Fuddified range that only allows you to shoot slow fire off the bench through a tiny hole in some damn baffles. Thats absolutely useless and downright boring. This is not a public range with millions of rounds shot every year, this is my own private range with only a fraction of that volume.

Just about anywhere you shoot a rifle you can accidentally fire it in a direction that could potentially hit something you dont want it to... you dont need to be on a range for that to happen. And yeah, if a round DID manage to escape the range due to a negligent discharge from a rifle that was aimed well above the berm and by some miracle it did hit someone in this very sparsely populated area, I would be in an absolute world of hurt. However thats the price I'm willing to pay for the freedom to do as I damn well please without any damn BS from anyone else. I'm quite confident the firing angle and the berm height and the forest backstop and the general lack of civilization in the area will prevent anything like that from ever happening. If I have to shoot at public ranges and cant ever afford to shoot on a piece of property big enough to shoot by my own rules then theres no point in ever owning firearms at all. I'd simply give up and start voting Democrat or something.

My freedom, my responsibility.

Damn you people are bunch of damn buzzkills.

 

[benEzra]

You'll be fine, particularly since your range slopes downhill somewhat. Just point rifles muzzle-down instead of muzzle-up when loading/unloading, doing transitions, etc., and follow basic safety rules, and even an AD wouldn't leave your property. High ready has fallen out of favor anyway.

BTW, I wish you good shooting (I envy you!)

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Caldwell County, southern part, that would put his range at about 350-480 ft elevation.

It will happen. Somebody will forget to change the dope on their rifle and send a round down range like artillery or skipping off the ground.

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15' berms? Baffles framing the target area? That would cost me tens of thousands of dollars to prevent an extremely unlikely event. I am not going to build an anal retentive Fuddified range that only allows you to shoot slow fire off the bench through a tiny hole in some damn baffles. Thats absolutely useless and downright boring. This is not a public range with millions of rounds shot every year, this is my own private range with only a fraction of that volume.

Um, no. 15' berms, baffles, etc. are not there for the purpose of only allowing slow fire from bench rifles. The safety measures are in place to help compensate for shooting mishaps.

As for the cost, doubling the height of your berm or brining it to 15 feet should not cost 1000s of dollars. You may opt not to go with baffles, but a proper backstop is an important consideration that should not be overlooked.

However thats the price I'm willing to pay for the freedom to do as I damn well please without any damn BS from anyone else.

If you do have a mishap and somebody does get harmed or killed down range because you didn't come up with proper safety measures, I am glad to know that you will be in a world of hurt, but that is a price you are willing to pay for the freedom, never mind what it costs the person you shot. They may pay with their lives for your freedom.

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Dude, what is up with all the profanity?

Buy Your Own Damn Range

Too many damn Californians and oil money rich bastards from Houston

The Salt Lick over between Wimberly and Dripping Springs used to be good, but all the yuppie bastards from California

However thats the price I'm willing to pay for the freedom to do as I damn well please without any damn BS from anyone else.

Damn you people are bunch of damn buzzkills.

Only because we are trying to help you not end up doing something stupid.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I am pretty sure that if we all limited ourselves to only shooting when we have a 15 foot berm behind our targets, very few of us would ever get to fire a round. And there would be absolutely no hunting.

 

[alsaqr]

Good luck with your range. i have my own shooting range to 150 yards. It will soon be extended to 250 yards. It could easily be extended to over 300 yards but then i would need a berm to keep the bullets off another guys property. The ambi shooting bench is steel with a poured concrete base and aluminum top with a carpet on it. There is a shed over the bench with plywood on the south and east sides.

That range is on 80 acres. There is one neighbor about 400 yards away.

 

[target1911]

perdu............

Congrats on your new land. I wish you the best and hopefully sooner than later I to will have my own range/land/hunting lease<<<<<PARADISE.......
Dont listen to them..........Shoot til your hearts content..........and do it your way........I must say that most of the ppl are jealous of your accomplishment.
I can see a couple of friendly warnings but jeezzzeee ppl.....let up......His land is not in the downtown dump of Dallas. Let'em live and ENJOY

My hats off to ya and fire off a round for me

 

[perdurabo93]

Only because we are trying to help you not end up doing something stupid.

Not spending thousands of dollars to put in extra safety features on a private range that most commercial outdoor ranges in the area don't even have is "doing something stupid"?

Are you saying that everyone who shoots at a range that doesn't have all the NRA-recommended anal retentive range safety features (as opposed to those obviated by common sense) is somehow doing something stupid and is therefore worthy of criticism? If so, you'll likely have to indict 90% of the shooters I have ever met as most of the outdoor ranges I've been to don't have a natural hillside backstop or a 15' berm or baffles to force you to shoot from tightly limited positions.

I will likely be building a raised deck shooting platform at the back of my range eventually, and I may even extend a raiseable thick timber reinforced roof forward of the firing line to make something like a baffle, but there is no way on earth I can afford all the recommended NRA safety features for a range that will never be bringing in revenue... nor do I really have the inclination to do anything more than what I feel is required to maintain a reasonably safe range that will keep all intentionally fired rounds from leaving the property.

 

[another okie]

All I suggested was a taller berm. I still think it's a good idea. I shoot on my own place into the side of a hill, so it's not jealousy. Most outdoor ranges I visit have 15' berms or even taller - Red Castle, USSA, and Oil Capitol in Tulsa, Joplin Rifle and Pistol Club.