Johnjane3000(Northpark)
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How do I set up a 100-yard shooting range?
Private property? As a business?
Make sure you can legally shoot on your property
Excivate a backstop berm at least 100 yards from where you want to shoot making sure all shots go into the berm or ground before it and nothing behind it can be shot.
Build a shooting bench or shooting shelter if you're so motivated.
Or if you don't know how to do this contract someone to do it!
Seriously though I'm concerned as you're asking. I'd suggest going to a public range or other outdoor range and see how they did it.
How do I set up a 100-yard shooting range?
Hokie_PhD wrote:
Never get legal advice ... from anyone but a lawyer.
Sigh, do you think you could describe that in words of less than one syable to some developers in las colinas? That a property survey is not an Alta survey, and that, yes, such things matter?But as liability jurisprudence has developed, there is too much liability doing that. Today, if the engagement doesn't include the full-blown design of the site including risks and mitigations - something far too expensive for a private 100 yard range - we won't even bid on the job.
I will ask for permission.
"...a 100-yard shooting range..." For shooting what? That matters as you need several miles(Canadian Army 1,000 yard range has a 10 kilometer fall zone. 10K is about 6 miles.) behind the back stop with nothing built on it and nothing happening for a fall zone for .30 calibre, etc. rifles. Almost as much for cf handguns and .22's.
"...contract someone to do it..." Expensive.
If you used these standards as a standard rule, nobody east of the Mississippi would be shooting at all. Ridiculous. Thousands of us have well designed and safe home ranges designed for personal use on relatively small acreages with "fall zones" nothing like that. I only have 20 acres and can assure you that in over 30 years of shooting tens of thousands of rounds on my 50 yard range, no bullet has ever crossed my property line.
1. Bullets striking the ground short of the target will often fly over the berm.