CB
posted this
30 April 2008
My backstop is a combination of organics and scrap metal with a hill behind it. The front is railroad ties, the next layer is several pieces of sheet metal, then the trees and what not for two feet, then some more sheet metal, then old tires that I am filling with dirt. 50 feet behind it is a hill.
As that I farm my land, and timber some of it, I will always have stuff to add to the backstop.
The local gun club that I belong to has a couple of 100 meter areas, but they are a skeet club, while I am a high power shooter. I need real 500 meter and 1,00 meter ranges near me, so my 142 acres does become a rifle range when the crops are not high.
For all of you who don't see what high powered really means, my 300 Ultra Mag has something like 3,800 pounds of energy at 100 yards. My 308/7.62 M1A has about 2,100 pounds of energy at that range , I think. Where the M16's 5.56mm or 223 round has about 940 pounds of energy at the same range. The M16 is very capable for killing human beings at that range. I use my 300 Mag for coyote hunting, close or far, one shoot drops them.
When the 300 mag goes off the next county complains, but they are only a couple of miles away. One coyote I shot, I thought that he had a heart attack and fell over dead, bullet was a solid and went straight though him.
So my back stop is up, I made a target carrier today and depending on the weather, I will be out paper punching shortly or maybe tomorrow afternoon.
Jerry