09-01-2018, 01:14 PM
You can build a range with proper shooting baffles and a proper berm and be safe even in the middle of down town if done right. Check out the National Shooting Sports Association and the NRA for their ideas on range constriction. I know of a fellow that built a little lean-to style shed with back facing a highway about 100 yards away. He built this shed on a built up mound of earth that made his angle of fire downward toward his berms. He then built 6 baffles out of 2"x12"s as headers attached to 4"X4" on each side that were just tall enough to allow you to shoot under them but would not allow you to shoot high enough to shoot over his berm at 300 yards and they were just wide enough to not allow you to be able to shoot past the berm on either side. He spaced these about 5 yards apart down the range. You could hardly hear the report of a rifle on the other side of the highway and even then it was just a muffled womp. He built his berms using old phone poles about 15' tall set in the ground in a rectangle with open front and stacked car tires placed over the poles. He then filled the tires with sand. Then he covered all this up with clay dirt making a berm that you could not shoot a cannon through. He built smaller berms of dirt staggered one side then the other down the range for shorter ranges. Where their is a will there is a way.