I am planning on building a mobile target backstop so I can pull it behind my garden tractor and position it at different distances depending upon what I am shooting and in order to line it up with the shade of the live oak that I will be shooting from. I also will need to move it around when I cut the back 40. I really don't want to create a dirt backstop so I have been trying to come up with an idea that will give me about a 6' X 6' backstop that is pretty easy to put together and cheap.
So far, this is my idea:
- buy a barely useable 4'X8' to 4'x12' utility trailer with low sides
- build a 6'x6'x4' frame using 4"X4" posts with 2"X4" cross members
- stack the inside of the frame with firewood
- put a sheet of 5/8" plywood on each side to hold the targets
The thought is that 4' thick of oak firewood will pretty much stop anything and, other than a few wood splinters that the mower will chop up, it should make for a fairly clean backstop.
I figure this is a cheap way to provide a suitable backstop for my pistol shooting at 10yds and 25 yds as well as my .22lr shooting at longer ranges and the occasional rezeroing for my 6.5 Creedmoor at 200 yds. The land is pretty open behind me and it is a good 1 1/2 - 2 miles before there is anything since there have not been cattle grazing back there for the past two years. Besides, if I can't keep it in a 6' square I need to hang it up.
Am I crazy or does this make any kind of redneck sense?
So far, this is my idea:
- buy a barely useable 4'X8' to 4'x12' utility trailer with low sides
- build a 6'x6'x4' frame using 4"X4" posts with 2"X4" cross members
- stack the inside of the frame with firewood
- put a sheet of 5/8" plywood on each side to hold the targets
The thought is that 4' thick of oak firewood will pretty much stop anything and, other than a few wood splinters that the mower will chop up, it should make for a fairly clean backstop.
I figure this is a cheap way to provide a suitable backstop for my pistol shooting at 10yds and 25 yds as well as my .22lr shooting at longer ranges and the occasional rezeroing for my 6.5 Creedmoor at 200 yds. The land is pretty open behind me and it is a good 1 1/2 - 2 miles before there is anything since there have not been cattle grazing back there for the past two years. Besides, if I can't keep it in a 6' square I need to hang it up.
Am I crazy or does this make any kind of redneck sense?