Shooting Range Construction

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Clampett

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Anyone have any idea what indoor shooting ranges use as backing (behind the targets)? Always thought I'd like to build a small personal 1-2 lane indoor range for self and friends, but have no idea how safely constructed. Something like a Quonset Hut.....
 

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We shot into old phone books stacked about 5 deep and tall and wide enough to cover the back wall. That club range was in a basement and had been in use 50 years when I was shooting there. If the range was hot.. we did not allow anyone upstairs... I guess someone sent one through the basement ceiling once....Lead abatement will be your expensive concern. Lead is a health hazard and if you get enough unburned powder in an area explosions can happen.

I've seen old tires stacked and filled with sand back in "the day" too. Plus... bullet traps can be fabricated if you want to go that route.
 

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