Transportable shooting backstop

[SuperMagnum]

Anyone ever made one? I'm thinking about making a shooting backstop so I don't have to drive 20 miles just to shoot my rifle at 100 yards. I have open fields but not many hills and several houses nearby. I want to make something like a big board maybe 10x8 ft bolted to a old trailer or something. It would be thick, maybe thick wood boards stacked really thick or something. It would have to be able to keep the bullet from passing through or ritocheting. Anyone ever done something like this, any ideas?

[mazter]

Not transportable, But you may want to rent or Have a Friend use a Bobcat to push up a nice mound of Dirt to make a Backstop. Its fairly easy work and could be done in a few hours, Just depends on how good you want it to look. But if it stops a Bullet, It works.

I have also saw a friend used Thick Steel to make his own Bullet Stop. He lives in a Close community and wielded together a Backstop with a Sandpit in the bottom to catch the Bullet's. It was angled to make the Bullet go to the Sand. Still works to this day. It weigh's a Ton though, But is very very durable. Never a problem with it.

I know they are not portable or moveable, But if you want anymore info on either one, Id be glad to get the specifics for you.

[MarkL]

Bullet stoppers are a tough problem. Anything soft enough to absorb bullets without ricochets or splatters gets torn up pretty quick. Anything hard enough to withstand a large number of impacts will cause ricochets and bounce-backs.

Dirt is popular because it's cheap and self-repairing, but it's not portable.

[DaMadman]

While I would never recommend shooting around houses in my area, I don't know your environment so my suggestion would be to take the trailer you are referring to and build yourself a thick wooden box use a thick rubber mat on the inside of the front of the box and fill it with sand. The wooden front would surely have to be replaced at some point but the rubber mat if thick enough would keep the sand/dirt from running out the holes in the wood and the sand would stop the bullets without the risk of ricochet

[SuperMagnum]

Building a box and lining it with thick rubber sheet and boards and filling it up is exactly what I was thinking about too. It would have to be plenty thick to stop a 300 win mag tho. I would rather build a huge dirt mound, but my dad wouldn't like that. Maybe i'll just wait till i buy my own place far out in the country and make a range with a dirt backstop.

[skeeter@ccia.com]

You by no means should shoot anywhere where there is anything in the backround as you well know....but a friend of mine made a backstop using the same idea they use with bb guns..he shoots into it with a 338 etc...is made of heavy heavy steel with sides and deflects the rounds into the dirt under it. He takes it to the range with him....we use a well put together rifle range but is where he tried it out and works great....just make sure the angle isn't so steep it bounces back at you ....or not steep enough to let the rounds bounce out under it in the back....if I knew how to get my pictures posted on this thing....I would send one..

[JimBob]

Stack tires of the same size up about 5 or 6 high, then put a second row behind the first and you have a pretty good back stop. We have these at the range and they are shot with 30 caliber rifles and you can pick up the bullets inside the tires.

If you leave the tires in place then you will need to drill holes in the side walls so they won't hole water.

Most tire centers will give you the used tires and good luck..