Safety first

[Freightman]

The town has enveloped us at the range this is our solution to keep the bullets in the range.

[TXGunNut]

Wow, may be time to move. DPS's old Austin range had an impressive system of baffles and backstop but somehow bullets managed to escape. If you have a problem with a neighbor it may continue, some folks just don't like gunfire near their home....even if you were there first. Under some circumstances a bullet simply cannot be allowed to to leave the range and that may be impossible. Hope it works!

[runfiverun]

you'll be dealing with noise complaints next.
then it will be concerns over lead in the drinking water.
then it will be calls about full auto fire, and sparks from ricochets.
sometimes they even claim fires were started [somehow only at night]
eventually someone with political ties will move in......
you need to have laws enacted granting gun ranges immunity [grandfather clauses]

[Freightman]

I think it will work as it is a long way to the nearest house as we bought the land to insure that. Plus from the benches to the last berm 1/2 mile away it is a good 150' higher. Also berms along the west and east, property lines, we actually set at the bottom of a huge bowel so noise is not much. you have to shoot at a 45 degree angle to get over the last berm thus the tunnels to make sure it will not happen and the wall above the tunnels are 8" reenforced concrete and 20' tall.
The range has been here since the early 50's.
Plus we have never allowed full auto or free standing shooting with a rifle

[1Shirt]

Good luck! Sure hope you have all the bases loaded!
1Shirt!:coffee:

[popper]

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Report-Has-Mixed-Review-on-Garland-Gun-Ranges-Safety-202028461.html
Then you get to go through this. This range was grandfathered in. Nearest homes ~ 1 mi. away, with a non-operating land fill between. Of course the article shows a pic of the pistol range, not the rifle range that has raised berms and hoods to prevent elevated shooting. National NRA did an inspection, comments will not be made public and the judge will decide this week if 30 cal & above will be allowed. Of course you can shoot 260,270, 243 there @ 100. When they want you out or your land (for commercial use) they will say and do anything. All that counts is some $$ in the Pol. or their buddies pocket. Same with the West, Tx explosion. It was not a plant but a dist. center. City allowed apartment, schools and old folks home next to it as that was the cheap land. They saved the 'good stuff' for residential (high$$) builders. Follow the $$ trail.

[runfiverun]

you might not allow it, but the phone calls will be made.
I watched a gun club that was so far out in the boonies up a mountain canyon you had to back up and down the two track if you met another vehicle on it.
it went from that to closed in under 20 years.
because of encroachment.

[Down South]

Nice setup. good luck.

[boltaction308]

Rifle ranges have been moved because of encroachment for more than 100 years. Most people don't know it but Wimbledon was a rifle range LONG before it was ever a tennis court. The NRA of the UK which was founded 12 years before the NRA of the US originally had its ranges at Wimbledon. In the 1880s they moved to Bisley about 40 miles outside of London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association_of_the_United_Kingdom

[shooterg]

Doubt I'd go to a range that did not allow "free standing shooting" - if that translates to offhand.
Obviously no High Power matches there !