My Place to Shoot!

[RMulhern]

I put this together 25 years ago when I was training for NRA HP and Palma shooting and it has turned into one of the best things that I have done...other than work my *** off to feed my family as all of my children/grandchildren have enjoyed the range over these years. It has certainly provided a great place for me to shoot BPCR. I built it with 7 pull type pit targets which I never needed as only two or three of my friends ever trained here with me. Since I've stopped shooting HP I built the mainframe target basically for soft lead slugs and it has worked well. Large frame is 72"x72" of 3/8" thickness and what you see here bull size is 20". When shooting 800-1000 I install a 44" bull with the same plate you see here in it to give me the 10 ring size. Behind all this is a dirt breastworks approximately 25' in height and 180' length. I am fortunate that I own the ground it goes on and also for quite a ways behind the area you see here.
I just finished reworking this target this morning; took the mild steel 20" plate off and installed one of AR400 and now my grandsons can shoot their smokeless stuff without poking a hole through the plate! And with 530 gr. + slugs it rings like a ten penny finishing nail hit with a greasy ball peen hammer!:-D:drinks:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6785960252_6b9c89de7c_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6785960252/)
Mainframe tgt. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6785960252/) by Sharps45 2 7/8 (http://www.flickr.com/people/61286670@N08/), on Flickr

View from 600 yds.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6932089461_1ef0b15730_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6932089461/)
Tgt600 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6932089461/) by Sharps45 2 7/8 (http://www.flickr.com/people/61286670@N08/), on Flickr

View from 1500 yds.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6785987008_00defa31da_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6785987008/)
Tgt15 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/61286670@N08/6785987008/) by Sharps45 2 7/8 (http://www.flickr.com/people/61286670@N08/), on Flickr

[littlejack]

Rick, at 600 yards, that looks like an albino fly spec. At 1500, it is small.
Jack

[RMulhern]

Rick, at 600 yards, that looks like an albino fly spec. At 1500, it is small.
Jack

Jack

Click on the photo and up at right hand corner there's a cross-hair. Click on the crosshair and then go over to right hand side where it says....View All Sizes...and click there! When that page comes up....click on 'Original'....and it will give you a realistic view of what it actually seems when viewing live!:-P:cbpour:

[littlejack]

Yep Rick, just what I thought. It still looks like an albino fly spec.

[catkiller45]

that is awesome man...where is that? I might have to come over and play..john

[RMulhern]

Well....fly spec or not....both of these 45 2 7/8 Shiloh that Kirk recently reworked for me will keep 'em in the 'spec' shootin irons and PP with most wadded up toward center!:bigsmyl2:[smilie=l:

catkiller

In the Delta Country of Northeast Louisiana.:2 drunk buddies:[smilie=w:

[canyon-ghost]

Nice. I never bought enough land to do that but, ended up finding one of the many NRA ranges out here that's close to Raton. I mow, paint, take care of the place (even if town people take advantage of that). I love having a shooting range to go to. You're place is big, that's nice for you and your family.

Good Luck,
Ron