DIY Running Boar range for practice
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8x57
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I don't know anyone that has built their own running boar setup, but there are several YouTube videos advocating the use of an old tyre (with cardboard target in its centre) rolled down a hill, or a target suspended beneath an inclined wire. Frankly to me both solutions appear pretty Mickey Mouse.
Have you looked at the price of a Laporte (France) running boar setup? Running Boar - Laporte Clay Shooting Sports
If affordable perhaps you and your fellow shooters could club together to buy it. It does suggest on their website that it can be installed in 90 minutes and that it can be set up on uneven ground. You might even be able to recover some of the costs by hiring out your range to other villages/syndicates.
Alternatively there's also Promatic (British) Running Boar | Promatic International Ltd
I think their system requires a far more solid fixed base and it's quite expensive but is reputedly quite good.
Lastly there's SIUS AG | Electronic Target Systems, Effretikon, Official ISSF Results Provider
They set the standard but at a high price. Perhaps they have a budget system for situations just like yours, maybe worth making a few enquiries?
Have you looked at the price of a Laporte (France) running boar setup? Running Boar - Laporte Clay Shooting Sports
If affordable perhaps you and your fellow shooters could club together to buy it. It does suggest on their website that it can be installed in 90 minutes and that it can be set up on uneven ground. You might even be able to recover some of the costs by hiring out your range to other villages/syndicates.
Alternatively there's also Promatic (British) Running Boar | Promatic International Ltd
I think their system requires a far more solid fixed base and it's quite expensive but is reputedly quite good.
Lastly there's SIUS AG | Electronic Target Systems, Effretikon, Official ISSF Results Provider
They set the standard but at a high price. Perhaps they have a budget system for situations just like yours, maybe worth making a few enquiries?
Adyb
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Thanks for this - had googled but not picked up some of those options.
Yes indeed seen the rolling tyres and baloons - dont fancy it much....
Surely the answer is get an air rifle and build a 10m setup in your shed?
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Adyb
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Hoping to get something full bore together, done some basic training with a closeline 22lr job before and its too easy. Need to feel whats its like to get 2nd shot off and on target from a 30-06 or 300rm...
Adyb
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I would add that while im looking for an eco solution for a small village hunt, any training will be done v carefully in a suitable location with several qualified instructors....
jthyttin
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One option is MR Targets, you'd have to pay in SEK but no customs hassle. 5022 is about 4000 Euro in Finland, freight included.
nun_hunter
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Cheap remote control car with a cardboard boar silhouette attached and driven back and forth across a good backstop.
You could sit the car in a trough or track to ensure it's going in a straight line.
Instead of a cardboard target use a helium filled balloon tied to the car and would probably reduce the chance of hitting the car by mistake.
You could sit the car in a trough or track to ensure it's going in a straight line.
Instead of a cardboard target use a helium filled balloon tied to the car and would probably reduce the chance of hitting the car by mistake.
You’re too late for this but it would have done the job with enough turns and assistance from a friend:
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nun_hunter
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With a speed of 42 feet per minute it would be more of an ambling boar than running boar!
Adyb
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Ha ha, indeed - i actually have a similar winch was thinking of gearing it up. I've got some decent steel cable and pulleys, right now thinking of some way of getting the winch to wind the target back and forth. Or just one way if its sloped zip wire style...
nun_hunter
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Where I worked before there was a hand winch set up using paracord and a couple of wooden reels. The RCO could stand behind the shooters and wind like crazy to get a target to move across the backstop. It wasn't very fast and only 25m away.
What about a mini cable car set up, two posts with a bike wheel at the top at either side of the range, cable between them in a loop and target hanging down. Hook it up to a motor and then the target would continue to travel back and forth.
I think both those ideas featured on an episode of Fieldsports Britain, not so long ago.
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enfieldspares
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I made an indoor Crossing Light Tank at 15 yards set up once upon a time. To be shot with a Slazenger Model 12 .22LR.
The biggest decision is how you fix the target. Suspended from an overhead or fixed from the bottom onto a trolley or "skid". The greater the gap the more likely it is that "sag" on the overhead becomes an issue unless the target and its backer are lightweight. As if outdoors lightweight is good...until there is wind then you've a flapping target in the wind!
The benefits of suspended from an overhead are, of course, that the ground below it doesn't have to be dead flat or smooth at all. And rope or cable is cheap compared to rails of anykind.
The issues with fixed from the bottom on a trolley are that (at least here in UK) the authorities don;t like metal anywhere on or near a target to be shot at. So that might mean wooden rails rather than steel rails. Unless you are luck and can simply make a simple wooded sled that can be pulled along across flattened ground. Rails can be just that...steel rails (thing L section steel) or can be wooden with, again, some sort of "lip" or guideway so that the trolley wheels are kept running along your "track".
A no expense outdoor running boar would be a ditch with rails in it running across a sand or safe backstop with the target held high above the ditch. But on an indoor range you could load reduced full size cartridges in you actual rifle you'll be using and used a third or half sized target. Reduced loads can be made with Trail Boss (if available) and indeed at my local shooting centre they loaded lead bullet reduced loads in .30/06, 7.64x54R, .303, 8mm Mauser.
The biggest decision is how you fix the target. Suspended from an overhead or fixed from the bottom onto a trolley or "skid". The greater the gap the more likely it is that "sag" on the overhead becomes an issue unless the target and its backer are lightweight. As if outdoors lightweight is good...until there is wind then you've a flapping target in the wind!
The benefits of suspended from an overhead are, of course, that the ground below it doesn't have to be dead flat or smooth at all. And rope or cable is cheap compared to rails of anykind.
The issues with fixed from the bottom on a trolley are that (at least here in UK) the authorities don;t like metal anywhere on or near a target to be shot at. So that might mean wooden rails rather than steel rails. Unless you are luck and can simply make a simple wooded sled that can be pulled along across flattened ground. Rails can be just that...steel rails (thing L section steel) or can be wooden with, again, some sort of "lip" or guideway so that the trolley wheels are kept running along your "track".
A no expense outdoor running boar would be a ditch with rails in it running across a sand or safe backstop with the target held high above the ditch. But on an indoor range you could load reduced full size cartridges in you actual rifle you'll be using and used a third or half sized target. Reduced loads can be made with Trail Boss (if available) and indeed at my local shooting centre they loaded lead bullet reduced loads in .30/06, 7.64x54R, .303, 8mm Mauser.
I’m rather keen on this
I tried going down this road a while ago
I couldn’t find a sensible working solution
I have a FIBUA style turning target set up for air rifle and a DG Charge Box set up for simulating a charge
But not running deer or boar
BSRC (at Bisley) have just this facility
I - as yet - don’t
I tried going down this road a while ago
I couldn’t find a sensible working solution
I have a FIBUA style turning target set up for air rifle and a DG Charge Box set up for simulating a charge
But not running deer or boar
BSRC (at Bisley) have just this facility
I - as yet - don’t
enfieldspares
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I did shoot a running boar at the French Rambouillet Hunting Fair back in about 2016 using a Sauer 100 and Sauer straight pull using plastic bulleted 7x64 ammunition. The backstop there were simple rectangular straw bales.
8x57
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The "have a go" running boar at the Chambord French game fair used to be like that, nylon bullets (Sologne ammunition) and straw bales. The targets were mounted on petrol driven remote control cars.
The "Open De France De Sanglier Courant" which is the grand final event for regional running boar competitions run throughout France was shot on a conventional range using Laporte running boar equipment.
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enfieldspares
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Ah CRISTALINE. It's my "go to" bottled water when in France! Screw top so that's an old picture?
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