Target Shooting "Back stop"

[TripleR]

I personally find it easier to do a dirt back stop, but there are some pretty good ideas on here. We built one for a proposed training range and the specs to prevent bullets from escaping were pretty strict and after putting up 15' berms were going to hire someone to finish to specs, but we decided not to after much of it was washed away in a flood. That sure gets expensive. We now just use a 15' berm or VERY steep hill.

 

[foggy1111]

I personally find it easier to do a dirt back stop, but there are some pretty good ideas on here. We built one for a proposed training range and the specs to prevent bullets from escaping were pretty strict and after putting up 15' berms were going to hire someone to finish to specs, but we decided not to after much of it was washed away in a flood. That sure gets expensive. We now just use a 15' berm or VERY steep hill.

Wow!....your targets appear so life-like.

 

[GaryM]

I have a 3' x 4' piece of 3/8" AR500 armor plate. Don't shoot at long range, maybe 50-60' but it works great. Shoot everything from .22 to .308 with no dents or dings.

 

[vtsnowedin]

The problem of high errant shots has to be dealt with if you have many amateur shooters. The will try a double tap with an auto pistol and let the recoil from the first shot aim the second round up at 30 to 45 degree angle and have no clue why they don't have two holes in the target. Ranges with roofed shooting stations extending out twenty feet from the fireing line have been built using railroad ties to guard against this.
Also ranges where the fireing line is ten to twenty feet above the level of the 100 yard targets work to advantage as the bullets are already directed down and will be in the dirt shortly after the targets if aimed anywhere near them, Unless of course the ground continues to drop away beyond the targets.

 

[Combustix]

Drove four t posts into the ground wide enough to stack a layer of logs. then laid more logs in behind that so they go back six or ieght feet behind my wall. Behind that I piled all the stumps from some logging I had done, along with dirt I scrpaed up so as the stumps rot they will add to the dirt back stop

 

[forgeblast]

The other side of my range has the cheap landscape timbers from the box stores, and logs behind it to catch any deflects. Might be a cheaper way to go if you cant get rr ties.

 

[Welshman]

Thanks. The landscape timbers sound like a good idea, particularly since I have a dozen or so to get me started.

 

[forgeblast]

Np, I was using them as fencing and then realized that tposts were much easier so I had about 30 of them. I just stacked them and threw log pieces behind them works great.