10m home range project.

[robthedog]

Sounds like a good set up you are building, i shoot targets at 10m at home, but that is the length of my garage.

Rob

[Rich]

A ten metre garage! Did the last occupier have his own bus??

[averageplinker]

Sounds like you are planning to shoot down a 10 metre metal tube if I understand you correctly which seems like an interesting solution to creating a range at home

[robthedog]

A ten metre garage! Did the last occupier have his own bus??

Lol, garage & workshop, are just under 10m, but if i stand over the threshold i have 10m.

I have plans to build another 36ft long by 15ft wide garage(i have the land) as i currently pay for storage of my machines, this will have a range to one side of it.

[MrChipShoulder]

I'll up date the list as the bits come in.
I'll give an explanation of how I make the range as I go.
I'll also list where I got the parts from.

It may help others wanting to do the same thing?

Items that have now arrived :-

10m range galv conduit (local Air conditioning tubing manufacture).
Whizzer motors from Crapbay (Durable 12V Front Windscreen Wiper Motor For Vauxhall ASTRA G Mk4(98-04)23000826)
Whizzer switches from Crapbay (On)-Off-(On) Momentary Rectangle Rocker Switch DPDT Crane Toy Winch).

[charub]

Rich at Shebear has something similar, but I believe it’s out to 50yds!!

[Rich]

Yes we had a tube, about 400mm diameter, made from plastic barrels that we cut the bottoms off. The plastic barrels had a top collar where the lid fits, and we made the holes in the base the right size so that the collar of one barrel was a good fit in the next barrel's "hole in the bottom"! Carry this on for many barrels and you have a tube.

As it happens that setup ( which went to 42 yards and was going to be extended ) has been decommissioned as we are currently building a new facility giving four covered lanes to 25 metres and two full height lanes to 50 metres that will be wind-free under most conditions.

To the OP, the first time you shoot in your tube, don't be startled by the noise.

Our barrels being blue, it meant there was only blue light (short wavelength) to illuminate the target card. Good FT scopes would rangefind the target card at 40 yards whereas we knew the card was at a measured distance of 42 yards. It just shows how you can rangefind a target differently in different light conditions.

[TenMetrePeter]

Can I just ask why the tunnel? Noise or wind or safety?
I imagine it will echo and resonate without some sound deadening liner?
What do the motors do? Target changers?