My newest project

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Yesterday i started building my winter shooting box. I thought maybe someone mite be interested. So here goes. All of the wood and glass has been scrounged from the local public dump. So as of today all i have spent on the project has been my time.
The concrete block were their from last year when i started planning. They are dry stacked and core filled with sackcreet and rerod.
Yesterday i located and set the corner posts in concrete. The pictures are of the posts in place with the bench blocks. Another picture is of the patio door glass panels i am going to use as the roof.
Today i put 2x6's on the ouside corners of the steel posts. Those are so i can atatch the walls to the posts. I framed and leveled the the roof supports. An put the glass panels on the roof. The pictures of the wood in place is what i did today. After supper i went out and started framing in the table top to be filled with concrete. There is also a picture of that.
 

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Ian

Notorious member
I wish I had the time. If you know someone with a sawmill nearby you might be able to get some bark-edge slabs for the taking and do a nice lap-siding job with it.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Ian the wife wants a 3 season porch to replace the open deck on our log home. An i am intending on siding that in slabs.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
that's better wood than the home depot had today.
Now there is somebody that has been to Home Depot ! I watched a floor worker cut the bands on a pallet of treated 2x4's last week. The whole bundle jumped a foot, in all directions! Good start for a rocking chair!

Kevin,
What you using for your floor?
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Kevin,
Looking good, should work great. I'm envious, I have not started my shooting shed yet, got the pieces but...
I'm thinking you better write yourself a note that your boat seat is in the shooting shed.. Just in case you get a momentary case of sometimes disease.
Glass roof? Do you get hail storms?

My shed I think will end up as a project for next winter. I'll just do it inside my shop and then drag it out on a skid..
 
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Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well you inspired me to go check out my range and materials, well, that and the fact that the last of the snow disappear yesterday. I went out immediately after reading your post and inventoried everything. So for now, I've got a 6 x10 platform which needs a little help and a counter out of a remodel for a bench. I'll haul them to the spot and block up the platform and start some shooting. I've got some loads ready to go.. I'm envious, your going to have a roof!! I unfortunately can't really start my shed till winter.
How long is your range?
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Well i have done a little more work. And HOPED someone would be interested in the progress.
All of the walls are framed and sheeting applied. 3 coats of paint to hide seam lines and differences in plywood type. The shooting bench top (concrete) poured and cured. An today i installed the front windows. The windows i had to custom make to save on cost.
My total cost for my shooting shack has been about 10$ for screws and 25$ for the 7 bags of premixed concrete. Everything else was donated by the local dump. Being retired my time is my own and used as i wish.
For the floor i had 4 x 2' by 2' concrete paver, and i was going to buy some P rock as fill. But again to save money i had a little sewer rock from a previouse project so that was used as fill.
An here are the newest pictures. Kevin
 

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Ian

Notorious member
Do keep us posted, always nice to see a plan coming together.

How big is that on the inside, Kevin? Looks about the size of mine (7'4" x 11'4"), nice and cozy and can get two people in there reasonably.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
The footprint is very odd dimentionaly. I had to make it to fit the patio doors on the roof. Outside is 7' long 5'6" wide
JG i will have to get back to you on the height.
The only other item i am going to purchase will be man made fieldstone for under the bench on the exterior.
About all i have to do now is the exterior window / door trim. An any interior shelving and flat wall surfaces. for hanging stuff.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Looks good Kevin, but you forgot one thing. A funnel running through the wall, for when it gets real cold!!
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
He could just have what the southerners think is a nut, a pee can
 

Ian

Notorious member
Used to use an old traffic cone through the wall of the bicycle shack when I was a kid.