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Have shot numerous 5'+ trees down,when being used for backstops over time. Wind gets 'em. Hint.............

Bigger ones make fair to middlin' Rests. Hint.

Movers…😁

Well, the metal deflector weren't cheap, I'll give ya that. OTOH, it's about 8-10 years old and still goin' strong. It handles .44 Mag and .45-70 cast bullets OK fine.

A layer of tires filled with dirt. Then another atop of it staggered like brick course. Then another and so on.

My backstop is called pine mountain.

I think old Dan shoots all cast and likes to recover/recycle em.

my backstop is a mountain, with a mountain range and glaciers beyond, can shoot out to 2 miles

No sand-burrs, but we do have tall grass and some serious ticks and chiggers. So I "invented" the M12A1 MSP (Mobile Shooting Platform). Relatively stable, and helps carry the associated gear.





Jackstands under the ramp add some length for bipod use. For hunting locally I've gone to a tripod, prone is a PITA due to vegetation and/or slope.

Rio7 just remember the 3 SSS's

I was lucky to find a pile of old RR ties that I buried under a dirt pile for my 100 yard range. When we shoot longer range we have used 1200 pound hay bales the are 5' rolls. We use several stacked together so no chance of shooting through them and we can move them where we need them.

JDM

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Great idea until the cows eat the mushroomed bullets.

Thinking of putting a backstop inside the warehouse. Have about 50 yards, shooting with suppressors. Really would reduce my range time for getting new guns on paper. Plus I could take the guns into the A/C'd office to cool down between strings. Thoughts on that? Already shoot my bow in here. Why not some suppressed guns. Outdoor summer temp at the range is in the mid 90's with 80-90% humidity. Does not make for a good time. Price you pay for living in Florida...
SnT

a fellow in the next town over shoots rimfire in his shop.

Sounds like you are fresh out of mountains and hill sides. We here in FL have the flat land problem also. You can pile up dirt to make a berm, if you have the free dirt. Another option is old used tires, stacked and filled with dirt, stack three then fill, repeat. Set them staggered and touching so bullets can't pass. Makes a fine bullet absorbent backstop.

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The 8'-10' tall wall process is fairly fast with a tractor and FEL with a bucket. Trick is to find a tire store that will give you the old tires and not have a prohibition against old tires on property. Stacking them full of dirt is not a big fire hazard.

dumb question, can you hear the steel gong out 75-100 yards?

Blammo, You should be able to hear a hit at 1000 yards. Rio7

Don’t know your situation, but can’t imagine why enough dirt can’t be mustard.
I have a 100 yd range out back of my house
My berm is eight feet tall and about 12-15 feet wide
And probably eight feet thick
I keep my targets about 3-4 ft off the ground and very selective to who I let use my range .
I don’t do spray and pray at all
Shoot from a bench or field positions and if it’s a new gun do my zeroing at fifty yds to make sure I’m on the 4x8 sheet of ply board used as a backer plyboard last s long time if you use same size targets and pin them repeatedly in same spot when the top half gets shot out I simply flip it over , use t post o the ends drill holes in the board and wire it to t post
Have shot thousands snd thousands of rds into it
Evey few years have friend with back hoe come over and dress it up using bucket to tamp dirt tight
I would not feel inadequate using this berm at longer ranges if I could stretch out more .
Kenneth

Oddly enough, mine is too

Yup out to 1000 and IF you mount your swingers with movement, you can see the "flash" when the steel moves. I use these from Hang fast and 3 link pieces of chain:




https://hangfasttargets.com/steel-targets/standard-hanger/



It's pretty ingenious and the mount has cutouts to act as a wrench.