Garden Air Rifle Range

[WH308]

Who has a plinking range in the garden and what’s it look like?

I’m going to put myself a backstop up and give my self a 30-40 yard range. I’m thinking of using a few 3x2 slabs and some sand to stop Rick O’Shea from joining the party. But thought I’d see what any of you guys are using before setting in.

 

[paul o']

I just use an old steel gone with a book taped to it and an old towel .22 rf into Celcon blocks again an old gong as backing .

 

[Smellydog]

Mine has a bird feeder to attract squirrels .

 

[gixer1]

You can get a pellet catcher on a post…but it’ll depend how big a garden.

 

[Lancaster]

If it's just for an air rifle, put some a few carpet tiles in a cardboard box with a piece of ply behind it, virtually no chance of a pellet bouncing back and very quiet so as not to alert those around you of your activities.
Pick it up and bring it in when you have finished and staple another sheet of cardboard on the front when it gets shot up.
The metal pellet catchers are OK, but they ring or ting when a pellet hits them.

 

[WH308]

No neighbours close enough to worry with noise and I could push beyond 100 yards if needs be.

I was thinking more about what you have to add a bit of interest to some evening plinking.

 

[Klenchblaize]

No neighbours close enough to worry with noise and I could push beyond 100 yards if needs be.

I was thinking more about what you have to add a bit of interest to some evening plinking.

K

 

[Donkey Basher]

Not in his garden but I know a chap who had a little range at work & used a modified aluminium beer keg as a target holder/pellet catcher. Recall that he also had a ramp that he used to service & work on his old Landie too - not bad for an office in Vauxhall

 

[Smellydog]

22 cases. They disappear when hit! 12g hulls go flying.

 

[Greenmist]

How to build a ‘backyard bunker’ backstop for less than £20

Fieldsports Press Website

airgunshooting.co.uk

 

[Cyres]

Buy a 5 disc resetting target. Great fun
Shoot all 5 up and hit top disc to reset. Great for speed shooting against anther shooter
D

 

[VSS]

Just don't use golf balls as targets. Been there, done that, got the bruises. Luckily, I still have both eyes.

 

[Len the dog]

Not worried about noise? Plastic fizzy drink bottle with a schraeder valve glued into a hole through the cap. Pump it up with a foot pump to about 30psi.

KABBBOOOOOMMMM!!!

 

[Trickyd66]

At 40 yards with my non fac air, I have found that paving slabs work well with a cardboard box infront with aim points / paper targets. The pellets just flatten and drop to the floor within a meter or so.
As soon as you introduce "fun" targets that deflect the pellet before it gets to the slab you are increasing the possibility of bouncers and have no idea which way they will go.
I grew up using sg cases , cans, apples, and even swanvesta matches as plinking targets. Apparently extra strong mints are good, but I don't want to waste them.

 

[old keeper]

Old railway sleepers are good.

 

[Pedro]

Old railway sleepers are good.

........The wooden ones.

 

[Triggermortis]

A bushel box filled with wetted newspaper is excellent, for fun try a packet of Trebor mints, cheap to buy, explode when hit and are environmentally friendly.

 

[bowji john]

Piece of batten (other wood will do)

Drill holes in top

Place match sticks in batches of 10 in holes

Group of 10 (or 5) holes per shooter

 

[WH308]

Cheers guys, I have been looking at this a bit today and have decided to build a bit of a concrete bunker up the field. My plan is to cut two 2x2 slabs down diagonally so they are 1ft high at the rear and 2ft at the front. Then place a 6ft gravel board across them and two more on top as a roof. Bank some sand up at the back and place the targets in under the roof. Plenty of space to put loads of targets / spinners etc in front.

 

[.25-06]

A cotoniaster Bush full of berries to shoot off once mastered move on too a farmyard full.of rats