Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Kevin has gotten me excited to get started on my shooting shed for my range. Although this summer it's going to be a 6 by 10 platform with a kitchen counter for a bench on it, for now. For now the range will be 75 yards, the shed will have to wait to be a winter indoor project.
To make it a full 100 yards I've got to clear a few trees and brush for the location.. Next I'm going to use a 12' by 8' truck van body with a roll up door. Take out the door and insulate floor, ceiling, and walls by furring out with 2 x 2's with 1" foil cover foamboard insulated between the 2 x 2's. Frame in a wall with hinged windows over a bench. I'll have to cut in a man door in the rear or side of the van body, not sure where yet. The van body will be placed on a timber skid which will allow for a porch for off hand shooting in crappy weather. So the skid will be about 20 feet long..
The bench I have is out of of a cabin I'm rebuilding, so the the price is right. I'm going to put a sheet of 1 1/8" underlayment plywood with cut outs for shooting rests and the like. The bench is six feet and the inside measurement will be about 7 1/2 feet, so with the plywood it will span the full width.
Next I have two roofs left over from my charter vessel for snow shedding in winter storage in the harbor.. They are different widths and lengths, so the big one will cover the van body and the smaller on will cover the porch on the front.
Okay this does two things for me besides have a nice all weather spot to shoot. First, cleaning up the homestead from 45 years of stuff that mysteriously turned up. Kind of a materials reduction act.. Second, I am not going to just scrap all this valuable material and stuff that somehow got hear. I have the skid timbers, the van body, (which my wife really wants gone), roofs, doors, windows, bench, plywood for the wall and ceiling cover, propane heater, pails of paint, light fixtures and wiring, and more. The only thing I'm going to need will be the insulation, the 2 x 2's and the plywood for the floor and deck. I'm sure there will be something else I have not thought of, but it will be cheap stuff. Can you tell I'm excited about a fun project rather than a some remodel job.
To make it a full 100 yards I've got to clear a few trees and brush for the location.. Next I'm going to use a 12' by 8' truck van body with a roll up door. Take out the door and insulate floor, ceiling, and walls by furring out with 2 x 2's with 1" foil cover foamboard insulated between the 2 x 2's. Frame in a wall with hinged windows over a bench. I'll have to cut in a man door in the rear or side of the van body, not sure where yet. The van body will be placed on a timber skid which will allow for a porch for off hand shooting in crappy weather. So the skid will be about 20 feet long..
The bench I have is out of of a cabin I'm rebuilding, so the the price is right. I'm going to put a sheet of 1 1/8" underlayment plywood with cut outs for shooting rests and the like. The bench is six feet and the inside measurement will be about 7 1/2 feet, so with the plywood it will span the full width.
Next I have two roofs left over from my charter vessel for snow shedding in winter storage in the harbor.. They are different widths and lengths, so the big one will cover the van body and the smaller on will cover the porch on the front.
Okay this does two things for me besides have a nice all weather spot to shoot. First, cleaning up the homestead from 45 years of stuff that mysteriously turned up. Kind of a materials reduction act.. Second, I am not going to just scrap all this valuable material and stuff that somehow got hear. I have the skid timbers, the van body, (which my wife really wants gone), roofs, doors, windows, bench, plywood for the wall and ceiling cover, propane heater, pails of paint, light fixtures and wiring, and more. The only thing I'm going to need will be the insulation, the 2 x 2's and the plywood for the floor and deck. I'm sure there will be something else I have not thought of, but it will be cheap stuff. Can you tell I'm excited about a fun project rather than a some remodel job.
