So I’m in the process of buying a new home. It has some land and a rail road right a way that’s a bit over a mile long. (Railroad is long gone so I just own the stretch where it used to go.) I’m going to build a shooting range on it obviously. Probably just out to 800 yards for now.
It’s outside of town and I only have one closeish neighbor about 1/2 mile down the road. He is an older single man. I know him.
Anyways the rail road runs down the back of the property along a dirt road that’s not well traveled at all. I have a friend with a D6 dozer, I know I at least need to push up a good size back stop at the 800 target and I’m thinking I should stagger the other targets along the edges so I can push up some smaller back stops behind them. I may also push up a small hill to put my shade and Bench on so your shooting slightly down by nature.
I will be fencing the property for cattle once the dust settles. Probably just cake train them so I can call them into a trap when I want to shoot and they can keep the grass mowed otherwise. What are some other ideas for keeping bullets on my property and people out? I thought about signing the fence every so often stating that it’s a shooting range. But I don’t want fence hoppers either or everyone who half way knows me asking to shoot. I could build a Birm around it, but I don’t want it holding water really either. There is a few trees but not enough that seeing cars on any nearby roads would be an issue.
It’s outside of town and I only have one closeish neighbor about 1/2 mile down the road. He is an older single man. I know him.
Anyways the rail road runs down the back of the property along a dirt road that’s not well traveled at all. I have a friend with a D6 dozer, I know I at least need to push up a good size back stop at the 800 target and I’m thinking I should stagger the other targets along the edges so I can push up some smaller back stops behind them. I may also push up a small hill to put my shade and Bench on so your shooting slightly down by nature.
I will be fencing the property for cattle once the dust settles. Probably just cake train them so I can call them into a trap when I want to shoot and they can keep the grass mowed otherwise. What are some other ideas for keeping bullets on my property and people out? I thought about signing the fence every so often stating that it’s a shooting range. But I don’t want fence hoppers either or everyone who half way knows me asking to shoot. I could build a Birm around it, but I don’t want it holding water really either. There is a few trees but not enough that seeing cars on any nearby roads would be an issue.