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Rebuilding our airgun range
- North Country Gal
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Rebuilding our airgun range
Our airgun range for the last few years has been basically an add this and add that kind of thing, just making do with scrap materials on hand to form a backstop. We decided to a total overhaul and rebuild, this week, for the sake of safety and looks.
First we built (or I should say my husband built and I helped) the backstop basic structure. It's angled for the sake of deflecting pellets and made of 2x8 treated lumber, treated lumber being a necessity in our northern climate.
At 30 yards, shooting our most powerful air rifle, pellets will leave a shallow impression in the soft treated pine. It would take many, many years for the damage to to seriously deface the soft pine, but we decided to face it 3/8" plywood which is harder and can be replaced as needed.
And the finished product makes for a target rich environment, my favorite way to shoot airguns, punching paper and, our favorite, shooting steel. Rifles are shot at a measured 30 yards and handguns at 10 to 15 yards. No problem at the shorter distances with the air pistols, since they are lower powered than the rifles.
First we built (or I should say my husband built and I helped) the backstop basic structure. It's angled for the sake of deflecting pellets and made of 2x8 treated lumber, treated lumber being a necessity in our northern climate.
At 30 yards, shooting our most powerful air rifle, pellets will leave a shallow impression in the soft treated pine. It would take many, many years for the damage to to seriously deface the soft pine, but we decided to face it 3/8" plywood which is harder and can be replaced as needed.
And the finished product makes for a target rich environment, my favorite way to shoot airguns, punching paper and, our favorite, shooting steel. Rifles are shot at a measured 30 yards and handguns at 10 to 15 yards. No problem at the shorter distances with the air pistols, since they are lower powered than the rifles.
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- markiver54
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
Looks great NCG!
Might have to do something very similar at the cabin!
Might have to do something very similar at the cabin!
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
That looks great.
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
That is nice! Looks pretty professional. The yard looks nice also.
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
Looks like theres a Tennis ball and some golf balls there. I have the same thing coming to my range soon
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
NCG whos animal trap is that there on the right
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H001T .22LR
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H003T PUMP .22LR
BBS .41 MAG
SS .357
SIDE GATE 38-55
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H003T PUMP .22LR
BBS .41 MAG
SS .357
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
That looks great!
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- North Country Gal
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
Thanks, guys. This virus thing has us a bit squeamish about driving to our club range to shoot the powder burners, since we never know who will show up or or crowded it will be, plus the number of cases in our area is spiking strongly, since this is our tourist season and there's more people in the area. We're both in that risky old folks age group, so we're being cautious and mostly staying home to shoot the air guns.
By the way, if you're not following the air gun scene, air guns are having a huge run on availability of both guns and ammo, every bit as bad as regular guns, since a lot of folks have been staying home to shoot during the pandemic, just like us, and, of course, the pandemic has disrupted production and supply, same as with regular guns. On the other hand, the pandemic has pushed a lot of shooters into discovering or re-discovering the tremendous advantage of being able to shoot air guns at home, even if it's just with that old BB gun.
Al, we got that resettable animal trap from pyramidair, several years back. It'd the Air Venturi Stampede https://www.pyramydair.com/s/a/Air_Vent ... _Trap/5778 . It's a tricky one to shoot, since those buffalo are built to swivel a bit, meaning you have to have direct hit in the kill zone to put one down. A hit anywhere else just causes the buf to wobble.
All our reactive metal targets are shoot to reset, so we can just shoot from the bench all afternoon long. At 30 yards, shooting offhand, getting a straight run on any of these reactive targets is quite a challenge. Even shooting from a rest at 30 yards, putting all those buffalo targets down 4 in a row is not easy. I'd say 90%of our shooting outdoors with our airguns is shooting steel, these days. Much more fun than shooting paper.
By the way, if you're not following the air gun scene, air guns are having a huge run on availability of both guns and ammo, every bit as bad as regular guns, since a lot of folks have been staying home to shoot during the pandemic, just like us, and, of course, the pandemic has disrupted production and supply, same as with regular guns. On the other hand, the pandemic has pushed a lot of shooters into discovering or re-discovering the tremendous advantage of being able to shoot air guns at home, even if it's just with that old BB gun.
Al, we got that resettable animal trap from pyramidair, several years back. It'd the Air Venturi Stampede https://www.pyramydair.com/s/a/Air_Vent ... _Trap/5778 . It's a tricky one to shoot, since those buffalo are built to swivel a bit, meaning you have to have direct hit in the kill zone to put one down. A hit anywhere else just causes the buf to wobble.
All our reactive metal targets are shoot to reset, so we can just shoot from the bench all afternoon long. At 30 yards, shooting offhand, getting a straight run on any of these reactive targets is quite a challenge. Even shooting from a rest at 30 yards, putting all those buffalo targets down 4 in a row is not easy. I'd say 90%of our shooting outdoors with our airguns is shooting steel, these days. Much more fun than shooting paper.
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Re: Rebuilding our airgun range
Thanks NCG. Im gonna get one of those. There out of stock now but I will order one for the future.
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Don't worry about getting older and still doing stupid stuff. You'll do the stupid stuff as always, only much slower. Hold my beer and watch this.......
H001T .22LR
H001T .22LR MONUMENT VALLEY
H003T PUMP .22LR
BBS .41 MAG
SS .357
SIDE GATE 38-55
H001T .22LR
H001T .22LR MONUMENT VALLEY
H003T PUMP .22LR
BBS .41 MAG
SS .357
SIDE GATE 38-55