Ian
Notorious member
Got my 50-yard backstop almost finished yesterday, been needing to do this for a while and finally got the time/energy to move the 2'x4'x1" plate over the river and through the woods....manually with a dolly.
The ground was nice and soft from weeks of light rain, but dry enough to dig and shovel easily. I moved a bunch of big limestone rocks to make a low retaining wall, dug out the berm to the depth I wanted, placed and braced the plate, and backfilled everything. Still have a little hillside to carve out on the left side (very bottom left of the photo) so I can shoot at the left third of the plate, but other than that she's done.
L1A1Rocker came over and helped me test it out this afternoon with some 310-grain .45s, suppressed of course
Even with all the dirt behind it, the clank of the bullet strikes are louder than my .45 silencer on a 16.5" .45 Colt carbine. Might have to hang some mud flaps on the front to contain the sound a little better. All splatter just rides the plate to the ground at the bottom, so collecting it for recycling should be fairly easy as nothing exits the area under the plate.
Pay no attention to the shadow of the shy and elusive Texas Tactical Samsquanch on the ground in front of the backstop (It's actually a water stain from me sighting in my thermal scope on a bottle of hot water).
The ground was nice and soft from weeks of light rain, but dry enough to dig and shovel easily. I moved a bunch of big limestone rocks to make a low retaining wall, dug out the berm to the depth I wanted, placed and braced the plate, and backfilled everything. Still have a little hillside to carve out on the left side (very bottom left of the photo) so I can shoot at the left third of the plate, but other than that she's done.
L1A1Rocker came over and helped me test it out this afternoon with some 310-grain .45s, suppressed of course
Even with all the dirt behind it, the clank of the bullet strikes are louder than my .45 silencer on a 16.5" .45 Colt carbine. Might have to hang some mud flaps on the front to contain the sound a little better. All splatter just rides the plate to the ground at the bottom, so collecting it for recycling should be fairly easy as nothing exits the area under the plate.
Pay no attention to the shadow of the shy and elusive Texas Tactical Samsquanch on the ground in front of the backstop (It's actually a water stain from me sighting in my thermal scope on a bottle of hot water).