First, let me remind the crowd NOT to shoot my wife's windchimes (when she's home). She doesn't like it.
This first picture is the "before" of my backyard (also known as my shooting range). I took this photo from my deck, which runs along three sides of the 2nd floor of my house.
The creek runs in the course I dug for it. I wanted it a little closer to the house so I could hear it as I fell asleep.
This picture is the "after" several weekends and more than a couple of busted wheelbarrows and a whole lot of Advil:
I deepened and widened the creek because of the heavy runoff. I put 2" round in the bottom so it wouldn't look like a ditch in the summertime.
Here's the shooting area of the range (I can shoot in all kinds of weather, and brass recovery is a breeze):
Nasty as heck today, so I decided to run some shorts through the Mountie. I put some cans tied to fishing line in the trees about 30 yards from the house. I made sure the line of fire would place the bullets beyond the river rock. The closest neighbor behind me is about 4 miles away and a thousand feet up the mountain.
That Mountie can shoot!
I only ran a box of 50 but I don't think I missed many! And shorts don't make much noise at all. A nice way to spend a few minutes on a nasty day.
Quinn
Range report 1955 Mountie w/pics
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