The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Well I've been wanting to do this for a long time. My county says that you have to be 300' from the road to shoot. The backstop is made out of about 40 tires filled with dirt and small stone. Then I put lots of logs in the back of the tires and then covered the whole thing with dirt. You can shoot from about 100' or so (300' from the road) or set back a little more. I've only shot .22's on it so far but plan on shooting some more soon.

would be nice to have a range close to home.....Congrat's, looks very nice...

Give a kid a backhoe and a chainsaw........

Nice.

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Longcolt44 wrote:Give a kid a backhoe and a chainsaw........

I like to play with front loaders.

Looks good! I would love to have a private range.

I guess I should be thankful that I have a 200 yard private range on my parents property, with the ability to expand it up to 550 yards if I moved the back stop... but that won't be anytime soon as it took me quite a few hours to build the back stop I have now, which is capable of stopping everything short of maybe a 50 cal.

MarksmanTim wrote:I guess I should be thankful that I have a 200 yard private range on my parents property, with the ability to expand it up to 550 yards if I moved the back stop... but that won't be anytime soon as it took me quite a few hours to build the back stop I have now, which is capable of stopping everything short of maybe a 50 cal.

Very nice!

Nice One day I'll do one, I just use one on my parents land, dad and a friend keep it worn out, I have to rebuild it to use it.

Longcolt44 wrote:Give a kid a backhoe and a chainsaw........

I thought everyone had a loader and a chainsaw or three, they are necessities of country living When my loader breaks, that sends me into a panic worse than a car being broken down

nice

Looks great lucky for me, I live in the middle of nowhere, so shooting for me involves walking a mile into the woods on some old skidder trails and trying to find at a few feet of open woods.

Wow, I'm a little jealous, country living you just can't beat it.

What's a backhoe? It sounds like a lady of the evening that specializes in .................ooops this is a family forum!!!!! It must be nice to live out in the sticks. I'm in a major metro area and my club range which has been in use since 1936 is coming under seige.

Home, home on the range!

Once I built mine, I have not shot anywhere else. No competition for bench time, at all.

One of the nice things about living in WV is almost every house out where I am has an impromptu range or shooting alley. I have about 30 yards or so to check mechanical workings of a rifle and shoot pistol. With this being the home of the WVU Mountaineers there are natural ranges just about everywhere you look. If I walk up the street a couple of hundred yards there is a skeet and sporting clays club and range. They sight their hunting rifles in there too and I have been invited to come up and shoot many times as they seem to like my older military weapons. This is a rifle and pistol society and many of the politicians are that way too. Of course there is Joe Manchin who was A+ rated by NRA and waffled to OB's side of the Proposed gun ban and I sure hope he remembers that when he doesn't get elected again. He needs to at least be quiet or understanding or vote against it to ever get my and others votes again. I for sure would never believe anything he ever has to say again. The sound of shots is normal here when the weather is nice. My one neighbors kid is a dead eye with a pistol but he has been shooting since he was very young. That is the way of life here and I love it. Bill

You guys are very lucky. I'm on the barrier island on the east coast of Florida and have to drive 45 minutes to shoot rifles at the public range. There's indoor for pistols about 30 minutes, $12, and waiting in line away.

One day I'll have land so I can do that. Very nice!


When I was a kid I remember walking through the woods near my parents house and seeing all kinds of impromptu ranges, shot up old signs and backstops, etc. These days it's all new housing developments.