Shooting During Bad Weather

[JimT]

The weather here has turned off cool and rainy. No conducive to shooting. But to counter the poor weather I have a small indoor range in the shop. The .22 Bullet Trap is set in a small alcove I built that has enough wood around it to stop a bullet that misses the trap ... should that ever happen. The shop is 90 by 45 .. I can get 40 feet at this angle. It functions just fine for working on sight alignment/trigger squeeze.

[marlinman93]

That's pretty cool that you can shoot indoors when the weather gets poor outside. This is why I purchased a pellet rifle last year. I had a couple old Benjamins I could shoot, but they weren't quite as accurate as I wanted, nor did they have great triggers. Now that I've got an accurate pellet rifle I find myself shooting much more indoors and keeping my shooting skills honed during the off months.

[bikerbeans]

I HAD a CF bullet trap in my side of the barn. Just used it to test wildcat loads so i could check for signs of overpressure. The other half of my barn is for my wife's horses so i always put the horses in the pasture before testing loads. One day when i thought my wife had gone to work she came into the barn to clean stalls. She wasn't amused by the sound of a 44 cal wildcat cartridge loaded with over 70g of I3031. Good bye bullet trap.

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[AJMD429]

A dude I knew thirty years ago dug a 50 yard trench going from his basement out into his back yard, laid culvert pipe very carefully, and covered it, with a target-shed at the end with motors to turn rolled targets (he spray-stenciled on doctor's exam-table paper) over a polyethylene backing. Biggest issue was even smokeless 223 bolt action made enough smoke he had to put a big exhaust fan at the end he could run for a few minutes every ten rounds or so.