A new 22 range in West central Texas

[Bill Wynne]

http://www.killoughshootingsports.com/Webs/OurRange.html

If you were building a new range for rimfire sports it would be very hard to come up with one better and neater than the one that Dan & Dawn Killough have recently completed behind their home near Winters, Texas. Winters is a small community South of Abilene and North East of San Angelo in West central Texas.

Dan had in mind using the range for 4-H shooting training and events, as well as, Benchrest 22.

The range has a 100-foot wide canopy and 20 benches. The benches are moveable but not easily portable. They weigh in at 475 pounds so that will be very steady and not blow away in the West Texas wind. If you will notice, the bottom braces are high enough to allow them to be moved with ease with a pallet jack or 4-wheeled refrigerator dolly.

I am particularly impressed that the Killoughs chose the plan that I used for some benches at our San Angelo Gun Club and described in the short article about benchrest benches on this site.

The range is a credit to it's owners and it shows their commitment to the sport of benchrest 22 shooting and to the shooters who love the game.

I tip my hat to you Dan and Dawn.

Concho Bill

 

[brad541thb]

Looks very good indeed.

Great job!

 

[Tom C.]

very nice range

hope dan gets a good crowd. i noticed the empty cartridges laying
around, happens at our range too, i was just thinking too bad there
isn't a little concrete gutter in front you could sweep them into then
push em all into a catcher at one end. we're lucky some kid comes with
a little cordless vac and gets ours. anyway very nice range no if we just
had some ceiling fans for in the summer.

 

[Bill Wynne]

hope dan gets a good crowd. i noticed the empty cartridges laying
around, happens at our range too, i was just thinking too bad there
isn't a little concrete gutter in front you could sweep them into then
push em all into a catcher at one end. we're lucky some kid comes with
a little cordless vac and gets ours. anyway very nice range no if we just
had some ceiling fans for in the summer.

Tom,

That gutter is a good idea. Another way short of concrete would be treated wood or redwood. A 2x6 laid flat on the ground with one edge against the concrete and a 2x4 stood vertically on the outside. This would last for a few years not near as long as concrete. It would be quick to put down and it would work.

As far as the fans, I'll vote for full air conditioning.

Concho Bill

 

[dankillough]

Thank you for the compliments.

Luckily my Uncle is hooked on rimfire shooting, and He is in construction too. So between the 2 of us, we did 90% of the work. Sure helps when you do not have to pay for labor. The only thing we hired out was pouring and finishing of the slab and the dozer work on the berms.

We are now using a shop vac on the brass. With the price of scrap metal, it makes it worth picking up. Now, I would like to build individual target backers to catch the lead. That will probably be a project for next winter.

Dan Killough
www.killoughshootingsports.com