Shooting backstops on Private property

[SpeedOften]

For those that shoot on your own property, what do you use as shooting backstops?

I have plenty of land and all my neighbors shoot. Everyone shoots out into the expansive woods behind our properties, one has a backstop, the other doesn't (not keen about no backstop). The one with a backstop just uses a bunch of logs etc...

 

[MisterHappy]

Say to yourself: "Were I behind this backstop, would I be nervous if someone was going to send a few rounds of .30-'06 AP ammo in my direction?"

It's not the rounds that hit the backstop that are an issue, but the ones that don't.....

 

[Kevin_NH]

For high powered airguns and .22, I use "Plastic Storage Containers" (aka 'totes') filled with rubber mulch, on a hillside, with about 5000 pine trees beyond that.

Say to yourself: "Were I behind this backstop, would I be nervous if someone was going to send a few rounds of .30-'06 AP ammo in my direction?" It's not the rounds that hit the backstop that are an issue, but the ones that don't.....

Every backstop has it's limits. I can't afford .30-'06 AP to practice, much less the 1" AR-500 plates I'd want for a backstop if I were practicing with .30-'06 AP.

The NSSF and NRA have guides for proper range construction, but few informal shooting sites have that kind of budget.

 

[Billsail]

Rent a Bobcat for a half day, and push up a nice gravel/subsoil berm.

 

[mursenary4]

Rent a Bobcat for a half day, and push up a nice gravel/subsoil berm.

^^ this

 

[Dradian]

Rent a Bobcat for a half day, and push up a nice gravel/subsoil berm.

Or a full day...they're fun!

 

[ChevyGuy91]

I shoot a big old pine tree out back, until I decide what I am going to do for a real backstop.

 

[SpeedOften]

For high powered airguns and .22, I use "Plastic Storage Containers" (aka 'totes') filled with rubber mulch, on a hillside, with about 5000 pine trees beyond that.


Every backstop has it's limits. I can't afford .30-'06 AP to practice, much less the 1" AR-500 plates I'd want for a backstop if I were practicing with .30-'06 AP.

The NSSF and NRA have guides for proper range construction, but few informal shooting sites have that kind of budget.

Only probably a third of an acre of my land is cleared, the rest is heavily wooded, there is a small wet area with a seasonal stream about 40 yards into the woods along with a good sized brook that cross the back, maybe 350 yards from the road.

I am not sure if a bobcat would make it all the way down back to where I would consider making my own range. Behind my property there is maybe close to 1000 acres or so of woods before a NH State Forest.

I'll look into what the NRA says about the backstops... I may be able to use the river bed wall combined with a wall of some sort of material.

 

[Kevin_NH]

Only probably a third of an acre of my land is cleared, the rest is heavily wooded, there is a small wet area with a seasonal stream about 40 yards into the woods along with a good sized brook that cross the back, maybe 350 yards from the road. I am not sure if a bobcat would make it all the way down back to where I would consider making my own range.

With a bobcat, making it down is usually the easy part, it's getting back up that can be tricky.

I'll look into what the NRA says about the backstops... I may be able to use the river bed wall combined with a wall of some sort of material.

Riverbanks were a pretty common choice of backstop in the past, probably politically incorrect now.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

I shoot a big old pine tree out back, until I decide what I am going to do for a real backstop.