I posted a photo of the range at my cabin on the old forum. In that I've been doing some improvements/modifications I thought I would bring you all up to date. I know no one really cares but I have to tell someone.
This is my range after adding all the steel targets...The ones on the right are rimfire pistols or rifles only, the rest are for centerfire handguns or rimfires.
Just spent 5 days, clearing brush, cutting wood and working on the range. I dug out 6 feet of the bank to expand the range. Only took me 4 hours by hand with pick and shovel.
I just bought a plate rack (fall down metal plates) from a guy on the other side of the state which my son picked up for me. It may go there or I might put it somewhere else and hang some more steel targets in that space.
I could shoot out to 25 yards just outside the cabin door but I wanted to shoot out to 50 yards. There was kind of a road I cut into the woods to go back to the ridge about 10 years ago. I had to carve out a space next to the road but the ground was so uneven that I really had no place to set up. I finally decided to build a level shooting platform using 4x4s and 2x4s.
Partially done...
And looking the other way toward the targets...The road isn't used very much and was covered with saplings and knee high ferns which had to be cleared. Legs are 4x4s sunk into the ground. The frame and decking is 2x4s
I had never done much shooting at 50 yards. Most sighting in of rifles are done at 25 or 100 yards. Once set up with a table and chair I spent one whole day just shooting my 22s at 50 and reaffirming the sights on some AR I brought up. It's a bit more challenging at 50 than at 25 but lots of fun.
That platform worked so well that I wanted one back on the food plot. I took some of my metal silhouettes out to the field on the back 40. It's about 140 yards from end to end. I have target stands at one end and bare ground at the other. I paced back an additional 10 yards in to the woods and decided to build another platform there so I could shoot at 150 yards. If 150 is good, 200 is better. I cleared a narrow pathway in the woods to the right of the 150 yards line and put up a target stand.
In the photo below the wide red circle is the 150 yard targets, the smaller one up and to the right is the 200 yard silhouette. It's actually at the base of a small hill. I tested some AR15s and my Keltec SU16 on it. After shooting at 200 yards the 150 yard targets seemed pretty easy. I was actually impressed with the SU16. I had a fixed 4x scope on it and could hit the silhouette every time once I zeroed it in.
Again, the legs are 4x4s sunk into the ground, I used 1.5x6s for the decking this time.
