Yes. 25, 50, 75, & 100 yard range about 200 yards from the back door. Lots of sacrifices in other areas of our lives to keep the homestead, but the range is part of the appeal. There is another area owned by family where we could shoot safely about 500 or so yards, but we've not gotten around to it. We may try this winter (have to do it when there's no crop out).
Living in THIS house, even long after I became a "
real doctor", (...
total cost at move-in =
$14,700
including hookup to an already existing well!)
enabled us to afford THIS space for a shooting range,
build THIS cool range house,
and make THIS shooting bench,
so we have a place for our kids to do THIS!
You can see the range house from our deerstand,
and having land to make memories like THIS makes me not for one minute regret the sacrifice in 'lifestyle' or fancy home.
If you can, and if your wife will let you live in 'primitive' conditions in order to afford it, get some land and move out of the city! I have been blessed with a wife who doesn't care about superficial things, but wanted a good place to raise kids, which
of course means a place to shoot and hunt
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(...
and garden, and raise animals, and build treehouses, and so on ![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
). We covered our patio and intended to make it into a 'dining' area or 'Florida room' but instead it has become the place we keep whatever wounded, ill, or newborn animal (usually goats) needs assistance. I guess we're just unrepentant hilljacks at heart...
The yard 'dip' at 100 yards in the prior post at least leaves you 50 and 200 yar ranges; those may really be the two most useful ones. The 200 yard one would allow you to verify long-range loads pretty well, and the 50 yard would be more convenient than 100 yards for faster target changes. Maybe you could put a "spotter shelter" on the far side of the hill in the 100 yard dip...