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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: Nessmuck on March 29, 2021, 06:03:31 AM
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I have a 30 minute drive to get to my gun club....not too bad. How about Yinz ??
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2&1/2 miles. From late spring to mid Sept. my vine over the loading bench gives me some shade. Regular sit down bench and stand up bench on the sides for the heavy kickers. Bullet traps at 25, 50 and a 8 ft. high berm at 100. For me the downfall is the shooting deck is only 10 ft. x 10 ft. For one guy its right but two makes it cozy. Then there is about a 3 hr. grass cutting job too.
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My personal goal is to buy a nice piece of property and shoot off my back porch 8)
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My back yard is my range. If I need further than 75 yards then I can cross the fence an shoot in the neighbors pasture which he keeps cut for hay but no longer has any cows
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11 miles from door to door
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About 10 min drive to my buddies farm .
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My personal goal is to buy a nice piece of property and shoot off my back porch 8)
I used to shoot off our deck until they built houses behind us. Then I shot at our Izaak Walton range about 5 miles from our house but the ranges were shut down by the county due to noise and homes being built around ranges. Now I shoot on my own range on property we own 47 miles away.
I occasionally test fire/check sights on a county wild life management range about 20 miles from my house but you have to fire through large concrete culverts which really anoys me!
Dennis
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I am blessed, I actually have 3 ranges on my property. One is out the basement door, its only like 20 yards, but mainly used for load development using the chronograph and such. The other is off of my front porch, i have steel swingers at 35 yards. Then I have my range which is 200 yard and i have targets at various yardages. I have a building with a deck on it to shoot from which makes it nice on those cold days when ya want to shoot. I consider myself a very lucky man. Problem is with this you have no excuse to ever loose at a match. But that still happens....
Good day, Gordy
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325 feet from my house.
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As the crow flies it is 6 miles. Takes twelve minutes, never checked the mileage.
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Out to 50 yards I can shoot off my back patio. If I want to shoot farther, my gun club range is about 15 miles away.
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I used to be able to shoot off the back deck but a few houses have been built and can no longer shoot. Sportsman's Club is a mile away.
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15 minute drive to my R&G, which has a 100 yard with only 3 shooting bays — the club is either deserted or crowded, no middle ground.
I’ve considered buying undeveloped property for my own range but it would be at least 2 hours drive away. Probably I’ll hold out to buy a property where I can shoot off my porch. Oh, may the stars align.
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42 minutes including unlocking the gate.
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1 hour each way!
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About 12 miles; It is our 250 ac. farm with 30, 50 and 300 yard dozed berms.
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It's a 10 to 15 minute ride to the range I belong to.
Kevin
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Our gun club has two sites...the old one is 15 minutes away and has our trail walk and up to 200 m. rifle ranges. The new one is about 23 minutes away and we can shoot out to 1400 m.
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I can shoot on a creek behind the house that is on forest service land. The climb back out of the draw is a bear, and on rare occasions bears will forage the creek bottom. Need to add a bear spray pouch to my hunting bag. Legit range is 45 minutes. Only ML club is 2.5 hours.
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Back in Georgia I used to just step out the back door and shoot up to 100 yards. And a friend's farm about 4 min away let me both shoot much farther AND hunt all I wanted.
Now, in Maine, I shoot at our rod & gun club range which is maybe 10 minutes away.
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In my backyard....and if I really want to stretch out....I drive 500 yards north to this one:
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That all depends how far from the house I want to walk in order to try and bother our four dogs less. The doberman is definitely not a fan of gunfire, and the littlest mutt gets so stress out he shakes! I usually try to walk out far enough that its pretty quiet up at the house or I go to my friend's house since he has a proper range and only lives a few miles away.
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50/100 yd. covered at the farm 2 1/2 minutes. The club I belong to 25/50/100/200 all covered plenty of room, 25minutes away. Smylee love the angled metal back stops. I been wanting to do that for years to catch the lead and reuse, guess I have too much lead , still haven't done it. How thick is the metal, and does the lead drop right down. Steve
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50/100 yd. covered at the farm 2 1/2 minutes. The club I belong to 25/50/100/200 all covered plenty of room, 25minutes away. Smylee love the angled metal back stops. I been wanting to do that for years to catch the lead and reuse, guess I have too much lead , still haven't done it. How thick is the metal, and does the lead drop right down. Steve
I am not Smylee but I have several metal gongs that I hang of portable supports with chains hooked to Carriage bolts through holes at the top of the gongs. I use two nuts on each bolt allowing the first nut to allow the metal gong to be on an angle. The balls/bullets strike the gong and are deflected into the ground. Most I just pick up others are pretty shallow under the ground.
Dennis
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Hi Steve: That 4 ft. x 10 ft. sheet is 3/8 inch thick. I salvaged both from a demolition project. The bullets follow the steel down to the bottom back and don't go into the dirt under the sheets. I used some scrap lumber screwed to the bottom top to staple cardboard to, like windshield boxes and then staple targets to the cardboard. Works great and is handy to find the lead right at the bottom on the outside in back of the sheets.
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Hi Dennis: I have a few of those gongs too and it sounds like we both have them hanging about the same. Mine are angled just ever so slightly to one side too so the bullets go down and to one side.
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I am still looking for a range. I know that there is one about 30 miles away, but having trouble hooking up with the guys that shoot there.
Smylee, get a couple sheep, or goats - that will take care of the grass mowing, AND you can get some great lamb or mutton quite easily.
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I thought about a few critters to keep the grass down but I would need to build about a miles worth of fence and find hay for the winter months. I bought a Cub Cadet instead. ;D
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My range (Sportsmans Club) is about 5 miles from my house. Unfortunately, there are only a few of us in the club that shoot flintlocks/caplocks, the rest modern rifles/pistols. We have a pistol range, a shotgun range and a 200 yd range. All are surrounded by berms. Even though the community is small, the club has about 400 members--not all active but enough so that target maintenance is continuous. Here are a few pics from our range. We are trying to phase out the wooden target stands as they last only one season and replace with portable re-rod/plastic fencing stands
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That plastic fencing with clothes pins to hold the targets is kinda handy but sometimes the bullets make too big a hole going through if you don't have some backing behind the target. large pieces of cardboard from the body shop ( windshields come in them ) or appliance store, deep freezers and refrigerators.
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I just walk out the door. For longer range fun, there's a beaver pond 200 feet behind the house .
I set a full size ram target on the other side which is just shy of 200 yards from the edge ....or I can back up for a tad more distance :) I gave the ram a fresh coat of paint just before the ice went out.
Black in winter, white in summer.
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Are there any fish in that pond, Bob?
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There were, however some otters moved in and cleaned them out. Still some minnows , though.
The pond seems to switch back and forth between beavers and otters. One or the other. They don't seem to get along .
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Interesting, since they don't compete for food - perhaps just living space.
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According to Google...
"Beavers are vegetarians; and most of the books you pick up about the two animals announce that otters are predators of beavers. So it is obvious, when they are in the same pond, a beaver doesn't want to get in the way of an otter.Apr 12, 2011"
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Yup....otters kill for fun...but look cute. I’ve been trapping for the last 21 years....don’t know it all...but a little.
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This little otter showed up and decided to stay. I don't think he knew the way home!
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35 minutes away.
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30 ft. if I want to shoot at 50 yards, the target is my archery target but I clamp a board to hold rifle targets on the pressboard on the right for my M/L shooting. If I want to shoot at a fancy public range out to 100 yards it is 50 miles away.
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A 45 minute drive! Rapidly urbanizing areas and the resultant drive goes up and up.
J.B.
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About 20 paces,
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For test firing, I just need to step out either the front or back door. My real range is about 30 yards from my shop, I can shoot up to approx 300 yards there. :D
Curtis
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I envy all of you who can shoot in your own property. Only thing I can shoot on my property are bows and air rifle. If I were able to shoot in my property I would shoot at least one ball a day. Conditions here are so dry that if I did that I wouldn't need to clean the rifle. Just wipe the fowling around the lock area.
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Can shoot out the back door, and have and even had a 100yd bench setup at one time. But too many neighbors within a 1/2 mile, so "my range" is back on my property-two miles from here. There I only have one neighbor within a mile or so and much better backstops.
There is a public range in the area, but I have issues with the owner (did a friend wrong) and also general safety issues at public ranges. I've never shot there and probably never will.
Forty-five minutes south of me is where the Elk River Longrifles shoot monthly, but as they never shoot for score, I've only been there twice.
I've not shot much in a few years as I can't justify the time/powder/Pb involved when I'm not yet solid on income streams. Things should be improving though.
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100 yd is Pretty close but not back yard. Takes longer to load up than to get there. About 10 minutes if the gate is locked. 350 yard range is about 1/2 hour.
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about 15 steps from the back door to the woodshed to shoot off a bench with shade, no sunlight, no snow or rain for a 50 yard target, up at the creek and picnic table I can shoot a little over 100.
I did fire a couple warning shots off the front porch over a grizzly last year - he's H--- on my chokecherries. I like her jam.
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I would really like one within 5 miles or so, so I guess I need to go talk to some of the soy bean/corn farmers around. At least with M/L's, we don't leave brass litter around.
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I live about five miles from the range. I feel so lucky being so close. With ranges closing up all over California, our membership has skyrocketed. Some new members travel well over a hundred miles to spend a day or two at the range. Luckily this is a resort area, so there are plenty of places to stay, eat, and recreate, for family members who aren’t shooters. Some members have bought summer homes here. I’d like to think it the proximity to our lovely range that inspired that.
Hungry Horse
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I raise the garage door and blast away. I have to sit on the seat of my walker and use a cross stick rest, but I shoot whenever the mood hits.
Wish I could still stand and shoot offhand. I fall over if I try to stand still. Dang nerve damage.
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A little over an hour away to our 21 acre dedicated range
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I am 30 minutes from Home and 15 minutes from Work. black Powder area has 25, 50 and 100 yard berms.
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I have use of two. One hour to Launghery Valley F&G and five minutes more to Walter Cline. :)
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I belong to a modern range down in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. It's not really set up for the type muzzle loading shooting I'm use to but I'll make do. The range is secure, safe and you have the potential to shoot out to 1250 yards.
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325 feet from the house. Here’s the facility. I have no excuses for poor marksmanship.
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For me it's a 30 minute drive to a gated range and because I paid yearly fees for 20 years
I am a paid up life member and it is a 250 yard range with a side pistol range.
The club is called the Huntington Rifle and Pistol Club and I joined it in 1958.The club owns
the property and the shots all go into the base of a hill.
Bob Roller
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Seems to me I've heard of that range, Bob. Our local, in-town range where we have trap, cowboy action, IPSC, general handgun, rifle to 200 meters, a 100 meter small bore & silhouette range, along with our 55 target BP trail walk, was formed in 1946. The club house hosts air rifle indoors, 10 meter target and air rifle silhouette all winter. I've been a member since 1979 and Taylor, a couple of years before that.
We're on leased land, from the City, always have been.
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I shoot on my property. It's nice and convenient, though sometimes I might like to hang out at a range to shoot the breeze with other BP shooters.
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I used to do that a lot, Bob, smokeless and black powder but now, I prefer to shoot with my bro.
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About 25 minutes
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Mine is just a desert site but it's roughly a 30 minute drive. To a real range it's about a 15 minute longer drive.
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An official range is 20 min away. I'll just use it to sight in a new gun. After that for offhand shooting I just use national forest. About 5 min away. I like to shoot in solitude in a hunting situation. Lot's of woods walks shooting a knot in a dead tree, or stumps from different angles and distances.
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50 yards from my back door. 100 yd to backstop, 200 yd to 4 gongs and another backstop.
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Out the front door, to the left 30 paces.
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125 yards SSE past the chicken coop and through two gates and adjacent to the hog pens.
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About 5 miles, but any range further away than my back porch is too far.
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100 yard range on my own dirt.
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50 ft. to 75 yd. out of shop window.
.22 LR 52 shot walking course covering 300 yards with 48 targets from 10 yds. to 160 yds. distance. Ever target moves or makes noise when hit.
Also the same course can be used for ML, but not all targets.
20 miles to the Buckskin Hills Shooting Complex with ranges to over 1500 yards.
Carney
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We just got a new range. It's directly across from the refrigerator.
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One thing I do like about the range close to me is they have metal animal targets at different ranges. There's a buffalo at 500 yds. It's fun trying to hit it with a PRB. Pick a spot in the trees in the background and let it rip.
CF guys are always amazed when I hit it but they don't know how lucky I was. Still it's fun.
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I am fortunate to live 2 miles south of town in the woods, and have a 100 yd. benchrest range in my side yard. I limit my shooting to ml’s and .22 from single shots. ( all the neighbors seem to have ranges in their yards also. Sounds like the OK Corral on some weekends.) Our club, Fort Tassinong ML is located SW of Kouts In. ( shameless plug for club) and about 13-14 miles as the crow flies.
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Normally 15 miles right now about 4500 miles and two oceans.
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Mike - how is it, you are "abroad"?
People want to know, as in "I'm" curious or is it a secret?
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Used to be able to shoot far as I wanted at the old farm, but my new place I can can only get to 50 yards behind the house. For longer ranges or the monthly match it's off to the Choptank Muzzleloaders club range, about an hour and a 15 min drive north.
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25 yards from my back door. I have 51 acres on which to shoot. God has blessed me, indeed!
Ron
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I just step out my back door the targets are at different ranges up to 45 yards.
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We just got a new range. It's directly across from the refrigerator.
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Curtis
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Daryl: On the island nation of St. Martin.
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Ahh - cool, Mike - or is it hot?
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Not far at all.....just about three miles to my club. Ranges from 25 to 200 yards and hardly anyone uses them during the week.
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Down the fields, maybe a poor half mile from the house.