Backstop

[compier]

hey everybody,
I will get a .22 rifle next week,
but since I'd like to keep everything safe I want to make a backstop.

Google doesnt really give me any ideas about making one myself,
do you?

greets, Mark

[moopups]

6 inch thick timbers mounted much larger than the target.

[Highground]

All depends where you live.

The best way is to have a hill you can use as a backstop.

Shooting into wood.........after so many shots you will be shooting all the way through.

[ricky]

i would go with a dirt birm with logs in front

[Beeman]

Old tires packed with dirt and stacked.

[Raptor]

Hay bales,round or square work great.

Last one I made was scrap wood nailed to posts about four feet high. I then piled dirt in front against the boards until I had it about two feet or so thick at the top with the bottom gradually growing thicker. I allowed it to settle for a couple of weeks then put more dirt on to bring it back to the thickness I wanted. It stopped 7.62x39 just fine with the targets about eighteen inches to two feet off the ground in front of the dirt berm. Never had a bullet penetrate the wood backstopping the berm. I did all the digging with a spade.

.....Alan.

[compier]

thanks a lot!
I was thinking more towards wood, but dirt + wood + tires is a good combo

thanks!

I built one for my nephew out of scrap treated 6 X 6's. They were left over from his parents new "Pole Barn" type house. I cut them 2 feet long and stacked them up, nailing 2 X 4's to the back for bracing and on the bottom for feet.

I also seen one made out of a quarter cut of a huge iron pipe. Kind of "C" shaped, but not as much. When the bullet hit and penetrated through the plywood it would hit the iron backing and ricershe'(spelling?) down to the ground.

[Bear]

My backstop is 2 stacks of old railroad ties with dirt in back. For a 22,one stack would be good enough. Those old creosote ties are tough and generally last a long time.