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This is a discussion on Quick deploy range - ideas anyone? within the Target Shooting forums, part of the Airguns category; Scout hut; so we cant have a permanent range. I would invite you all to offer ideas/brainstorms/comments about how I ...
Quick deploy range - ideas anyone?
Scout hut; so we cant have a permanent range.
I would invite you all to offer ideas/brainstorms/comments about how I could have a quickly set up range that could be put up in a few minutes, then taken down at the end of an evening.
Some background info: easily enough space for 6 lanes of 6yds, possibly also 10m. Large storage area. Lots of trestle tables (we're scouts, remember). Open rafters in ceiling about 3m high to hang stuff from. Floor is carpet.
No idea is too stupid (well, obviously some ideas are stupid and we shall ridicule them on this forum)
nujjer
Obviously the backstop is the first problem to sort out is the hut brick built or timber?
Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway!
Lucano is right being inoors you will need a good back stop id suggest using hay bayles are there quite cheap and easily stackable. Also you may want to think abou using line pins and rope to create lanes for the shooters again not to expesive just a thought really
What rifles/pistols are the scouts going to be using. If low power you could consider thick carpet as a backstop. Sufficient width and height, supported with some timbers, akin to a windbreak. To be on the safe side use two with a airgap between them. Easily rolled up and put away. Card board boxes can be sourced from the local shops and packed out with carpet again or junk mail, old papers. Set them up with a target blutacked to. If it's printed out on A4 you can use multiple targets or silhouettes to one page. Placing some hooks in the rafters you could hang tin cans, pop bottles. A old dartboard might be interesting.
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Some good suggestions,thanks folks.
The hut is Timber
Scouts are limited to low power. So the carpet thing sounds very feasible.
I hadnt thought of blutak as an option, I was contemplating pellet catchers, but while I save up for those, the blutak wouldbe great.
nujjer
I'll second dave n dog's suggestion of a cardboard box filled with carpet (and strips of card), with printed A4 targets on - we staple them on - pm me your email address, I'll send some targets to print (there loads on the web also).
atb
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My biggest fear is that when I'm dead my wife will sell my gun (and fishing gear) for what I said I paid for it.
just have a good back stop, then stick cans up, and see who can knock the most down, the most fun you can have with an air rifle
Get some para cord to make lanes, it can also be used to hang cans / bottles from the beems, draw circles with permanent marker on tin cans / bottles etc can be good for friendly contests, get ya scouts to bring empty cans/bottles etc in and once there knackered get them to recycle them, teaches them target shooting, friendly competition and re using items, getting them to tie certain things with certain types of knot can be good to keep them on there toes, all equipment can be kept in a carboard box.
