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The loggers have left and we hired a guy to clear us a shooting lane down the middle of the property. The property is nearly a mile long but with several creeks crossing it we will be limited to shooting 1k to maybe 1.2k.

We'll let the sides grow up and maintain the center strip as a shooting/hunting lane. My wife took this video with one of her drones yesterday. Kind of cool.

 

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Completely wrong...

EXTREMELY cool!!!! ;)
 
That is gonna' be awesome. I'm only a little jealous.
 
Right now it will just for family and friends. It's in a rather remote location and we have several adjoining neighbors who really enjoy deer hunting. That is why we are waiting until January to start seriously shooting. Right now clearing off the logging deck, pushing out the lane and deciding on what type and size of targets.
 
waiting until January to start seriously shooting

Me too. Now that the freezer is full Iā€™m ready for ā€œshooting seasonā€ to start on Jan 2. Until the next crop of beans or corn get too high, I can get out to 550 on the lease. After that 350. Iā€™m loading like crazy. Plan on no empty brass by that date.
 
Me too. Now that the freezer is full Iā€™m ready for ā€œshooting seasonā€ to start on Jan 2. Until the next crop of beans or corn get too high, I can get out to 550 on the lease. After that 350. Iā€™m loading like crazy. Plan on no empty brass by that date.

I still need one or two more to reach my freezer limit. :)
 
I've got a couple of questions concerning ranges? Some ranges have fixed measured distances with targets while I've seen others where you have a berm and shooters back off to whatever distance they want, all the way out to a 1,000 yards. My neighbor has a range and he has permanent steel plates hung in 50 yard increments from 100 to 600 yards. It's fun but after awhile it gets kind of easy and boring. We now have 4 inch plates at 450 and 600 just to make it challenging. I've suggested putting up some temporary targets at unknown distances but when I mention it his eyes glaze over. I've only been to one public range in my life so what I've been doing is watching PRS matches on youtube for ideas.
 
Downeast, I believe the FLD's absolute zero competition is like that: he moves the targets around before the event so people cannot simply adjust their scopes for the known distances.
 
I've got a couple of questions concerning ranges? Some ranges have fixed measured distances with targets while I've seen others where you have a berm and shooters back off to whatever distance they want, all the way out to a 1,000 yards. My neighbor has a range and he has permanent steel plates hung in 50 yard increments from 100 to 600 yards. It's fun but after awhile it gets kind of easy and boring. We now have 4 inch plates at 450 and 600 just to make it challenging. I've suggested putting up some temporary targets at unknown distances but when I mention it his eyes glaze over. I've only been to one public range in my life so what I've been doing is watching PRS matches on youtube for ideas.

Build you some moveable stands and all is well. You can get someone whoā€™s not going to be shooting to set them for you so it will be more challenging.


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Right now I have one steel target set at 600 yards (temporarily hung on a sweet gum) and another one on a big 10 foot tall stump/snag they left behind. I have a few target stands that I can hang plates on and remove them when we are done. I was just wondering what everyone else is doing?
 
I would probably leave a 36ā€ round. 1ā€ thick AR500 at 1k.

Then maybe some poppers you can change up distances to make it challenging?

I would create a dope sheet with different spots around the range with known distances since you will be hunting it.
 
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