Maggie’s 3 days on a bulldozer and my playground is finished.UPDATE!! Long range added!

[pyplynr]

Berms are 8’-9’ tall. It’s way bigger than the original that I built over 10 years ago. It’s got a 100 and 200 yard target area for load development too. The hole in the long berm is a pass through for the 1000 yard range that will go through. 900 and 1000 yard shots will be through there. The long berm also doubles as the 800 yard berm.

 

[diggler1833]

I'm fortunate that our ranch lays out perfectly for me to go to 500 in one direction, and then 900 in another *without* putting neighbors in jeopardy.

Nice work man...Hopefully it didn't cost you too much pasture!

 

[Boon20]

Berms are 8’-9’ tall. It’s way bigger than the original that I built over 10 years ago. It’s got a 100 and 200 yard target area for load development too. The hole in the long berm is a pass through for the 1000 yard range that will go through. 900 and 1000 yard shots will be through there. The long been also doubles as the 800 yard berm.

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All kinds of jelous over here

 

[Lapuapalooza]

Lats and longs or it never happened! ?

that is awesome! Congratulations!!!

 

[woogie_man]

That's awesome!

Showed my wife....and of course her smart ass remark was something about the neighbors getting pissed if I knocked down their houses for a personal range.


Hopefully someday

 

[Cowcatcher]

That's a bunch of pushing. Looks good. You're in Oklahoma too huhhhhhh! Lol. I'm fortunate enough to live and work on a 10k acre ranch with several hills and valleys but I sure wouldn't mind jumping on our dozer and pushing out something like you have if the owner would allow it. Thanks for the aerial photos!

 

[x_789]

That's awesome.

 

[502Chevelle]

Very cool!

 

[Trevor300wsm]

That looks good bud. Where is it? I need to test it out.
I got extremely lucky when XTO came thru with a big pipe line and made me a 1,200 yard range here at the house. Before then, I was limited to around 725yds down a power line ROW.

 

[TACC]

Great job

 

[DIBBS]

How many gallons of diesel.... were used in this little project?

Very nice!

 

[MtnCreek]

Dig the pond to get the dirt?

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Hope your bulldozer had a cab and heater. This cold is a bunch of sh*t.
Very nice work.

 

[Pbgt]

Nice set up....one realization I had while setting up my range is nobody EVER said I wish I had a smaller dozer....I had a couple of jd 450's, and kept wishing I had a d8....takes awhile to move that much dirt!

 

[EddieNFL]

No shoot house?

 

[MadDuner]

BERY NICE!!!!!

 

[pyplynr]

The pond was built for the initial 1/2 acre U shaped berm. Now it’s around 3.5-4 acres. Only burned about 160 gallons of fuel. Dozer is a 2018 Komatsu D65EX so it does well on fuel. Got a buddy that works at a ford dealership. He’s supposed to be saving the old tires to build walls for a shoot house.

 

[Ruskin]

Super cool!!! Where abouts in OK are you?

 

[pyplynr]

Super cool!!! Where abouts in OK are you?

North central

 

[Ruskin]

North central

Nice looking piece of land you got there. I'm in Northwest Arkansas, so not to far from you. I've got about 7 acres of land and have a berm out at 320 y. Its enough for load development, 22s and pistols.

 

[MrSmith]

Nice. You can do a lot in that layout with a bit of imagination. Good job leaving trees to work into different scenarios. Any chance the Dept. of Agriculture has a grant program for increasing the capacity of a stock watering feature?

I do remember shooting a .22 at an old scraper tire many decades ago. I also remember the sound of the bullet whizzing past my ear when it bounced off. Careful with the tires.

Thank you,
MrSmith

 

[x_789]

North central

Since your in OK and it aint red dirt that narrowed it way down.

 

[ForgeValley]

Berms are 8’-9’ tall. It’s way bigger than the original that I built over 10 years ago. It’s got a 100 and 200 yard target area for load development too. The hole in the long berm is a pass through for the 1000 yard range that will go through. 900 and 1000 yard shots will be through there. The long berm also doubles as the 800 yard berm.

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Dad?

 

[Tnc]

Need to invite all us okies over to test it out

 

[Cowcatcher]

Need to invite all us okies over to test it out

Best idea I've heard in a while!

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

North central

Awesome! So am I! What is your favorite beer?

 

[Cowcatcher]

The OP had to know this is how this thread would turn out! Lmao

 

[buckshotbarlow]

nice work

 

[bug_eyedmonster]

So much envy from CA. I have to drive about four and a half hours to a friend's private ranch to shoot out to 1400 yards. There is a ranch about an hour from my house, but they charge $250 a day to shoot to a mile at the moment. My wife and I have been discussing moving out of CA to a place more suitable for our kids to grow up (not in toxic CA), which indirectly means I could finally get my own place like this to shoot.

Congrats on a great looking range sir!

Jerry

 

[2ndamendfan]

Need to invite all us okies over to test it out

I imagine that will happen long before we get our invites from @Tucker301. Damn post office anyway.

 

[Jefe's Dope]

Very nice!

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Screw the party at Tuckers house... when is the party at @pyplynr s house???

that's awesome!

Cheers, Sirhr

 

[pyplynr]

the boy and I threw together a quick tank trap and had to try out the new dirt.

 

[pyplynr]

 

[Mike Moorhead]

Great setup!
Mike, Semper Fi!

 

[pyplynr]

Well it’s been and always will be a work in progress but I got more steel hung up yesterday. Video is through a 20x spotter. There is a 1 minute, 2 minute , and a bigger “fun” target at every 100 yards out to 1000 . Still gotta get more fire hose and swap out some nylon webbing that I used that’s not gonna work out (the ones blowing crazy in the wind, wind is about 25-30 right here). I’ve got over 50 pieces of steel still left to go inside the “playground”.

 

[jamebeck]

Well done !

 

[pmclaine]

Jelly.....

 

[oneshot86]

SUPER sweet

 

[powdahound76]

Dang.

“Thou shall not covet” Seeing this again makes me remind myself of that.