Range Design?

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TrxR

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The ranges I have been to seem to have a fixed target area with movable firing lines. I was wondering if you have ever seen one with a fixed firing line and movable targets?

Thanks
 
Any range with a covered firing line, and fixed benches will be that way. They are common. Are you building a range?
 
TrxR

Are you sure you don't have that question backwards. Most ranges have fixed benches or shooting points and the targets are set at different distances. The exceptions are usually long-range set-ups where there are target pits and the benches are portable. There are a lot more point-blank ranges than there are long-range. Even the local gravel pits usually have fixed and defined shooting points.

Ray
 
I am comtemplating a long range personal range but am not sure. It depends on the land I am looking at as well as the regulations.
 
I have seen pictures of personal ranges that have a series of impact berms set up so that shots for each progressively longer range pass beside shorter range berms. Having an impact berm right behind a target helps reduce the chance of shots impacting short of the target and ricocheting over the berm. In general terms, it is better to shoot north, and I would take the dominant wind direction into account when laying out impact berms, so that shorter range berms are down wind of longer range berms.
 
Agreeing

I could not agree more that the direction the range faces is the most important feature and that north is most likely the best direction.........................................

Nothing like have the sun at your back and nothing like having the sun in your eyes.
 
How about Northwest?

John S said:
I could not agree more that the direction the range faces is the most important feature and that north is most likely the best direction.........................................

Nothing like have the sun at your back and nothing like having the sun in your eye

s.
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This is a serious question. Would a range oriented toward the Northwest reduce the early morning sun's glare that sometimes is a problem ?
 
Depends where in the US and what the Range will be used for, personal with friends or like me an active private membership facility.

I'm in the NE corner of New York state and plan on setting up at heading 315-330 depending on where I can get 1K + and keep the required set back from the not so friendly fokes next door. I plan on pits with berms for 100 yds. to 1000 + with no covered benches as mostly it will be used for NRA High Power, XTC and F-Class Matches and practice.
 
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