Garden Air Rifle Range

[enfieldspares]

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.

An old redundant coal bunker of the sort once favoured in Lincolnshire with the front panel removed and filled with sand?

 

[enfieldspares]

Here's a picture, copied off eBay, of a Lincolnshire concrete coal bunker. take the front off and you've your stop butt. Should be cheap enough secondhand...if you can find one!

 

[enfieldspares]

Again, if it helps, thinking off the grid with suitable mesh and cement and a wooden mould pattern could you not cast the sides flat (you'll get two sides if you are careful with the pattern mould) and then dig a square U shaped trench erect the sides and back secure them together then cement them into the trench you've dug?

 

[Smellydog]

Here's a picture, copied off eBay, of a Lincolnshire concrete coal bunker. take the front off and you've your stop butt. Should be cheap enough secondhand...if you can find one!

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Bloody hell, that would do for my 30-30 in the back yard

 

[Bowland blades]

Not so I’m afraid. I shot clean through one with a high velocity .22lr round. Got to admit I was a little surprised.

Its frankly amazing what a 40 grain lump of soft lead will go through at 1050 fps at the muzzle . Let alone something like a CCI velociter with its 40 grain .