Just a clear cut a short drive outside of town. I go there with new shooters, like my girlfriend, or when the official range is flooded, which happens a couple times a year.
PS: you might want to check local laws and ask on a local board as to what a suitable backstop would be. A pile of dirt is not suitable for the most part.
First picture is my son shooting on the pistol range at the Garland Public shooting range, Garland Texas.
The second and third are a private range my friend built on his ranch in Central Texas.
Dallas Jack
Our local shooting hole on National Forest land, 10 minute drive. In the pic, I'm shooting at 200 yards, If I head over the opposite hill, I've got 300 yards.
Here is the range I like to go to. I don't have any other pictures of it on this computer but to the left is a line of trees and then a 100 and 200 yard range that runs parallel to this one. To the right is a 10 yd. pistol range that runs perpendicular to this one.
This is kinda sorta related, but I'd really like to build a portable shooting bench arrangement on a small utility trailer, with leveling jacks on all four corners. I just don't have a place to keep it, or I probably would build one. My gun club range is perfect for something like this. I'd probably go with a little larger trailer, for more walk-around space, with mounted boxes for storage and a cooler rack. Probably some wooden rifle stacking racks too. Maybe even a big patio umbrella.
Last sunday I just finished adding to my shooting hill in the back of my property. My property is 450 yards deep where the hill is, I just havnt taken any shots that long yet. The berm is 10' high, 50' wide and 20' thick at the base (3' wide at top), all tightly packed and has a core of pine and gum trees that the dirt was piled on.
Here is 25 yards:
100 Yards:
and 250 Yards:
I can count the number of times I've shot at a public range on one hand.
The vast majority of my shooting has been done on my grandpa's property, where he has a 200 yard range set up, or on the public land around that property.
We also do a far amount of shooting on pubic land. Montana has lots of wide open spaces. We also have a power lone maintenence road that we shoot a good deal on because it allows for shots of over a mile, which means we can stretch out the legs on my M1A, my dad's custom .338 RUM, my bro's AR-50, and anything else we care to shoot. This is a pick down that road from behind my M1A. I was shooting a torso target located 600-some odd yards down the right side tree line.
A closer look through the zoom on the camera:
And the results of the ten-round string:
And me shooting from the crude bench set up on my grandpa's property. This is me doing my initial sight-in for my M1A, which is really the only time I shoot from the bench.
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