How does your range handle an area for patterning shotguns?

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Just curious about this as our club has no dedicated area and is in the discussion phase on how to handle this. Currently people have been using the pistol lanes and shooting out the target stands (despite several signs not to do this :) ) One suggestion I heard was to take over one of the 6 pistol lanes and convert this to a shotgun lane, which makes sense to me. I should add that we only have one bermed range (25yd, 50yd and 100yd), and a Trap and Skeet area.

So, how does your range handle this? Dedicated area? Just set something up temporarily on the existing range? Just curious, and thanks for any replies.
 
We're an indoor range, so we just set up a temporary structure down range. Usually a large sheet of cardboard right at the range face. Patterning is only done when there is a director on-site.
 
Large metal sheet roughly 6 ft X6 ft. Use a paint brush roller to spread out and even the "goop" (not sure what it is), blast away then repeat. Although only good for lead you can tell some guys have fired heavy steal loads as it is somewhat pockmarked, also the odd slug dent.:bangHead:
 
ff33 said:
Large metal sheet roughly 6 ft X6 ft. Use a paint brush roller to spread out and even the "goop" (not sure what it is), blast away then repeat. Although only good for lead you can tell some guys have fired heavy steal loads as it is somewhat pockmarked, also the odd slug dent.:bangHead:
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Don't know about the Ontario CFO allowing a steel structure on the range.... Nice that they shoot slugs at it, seriously I wonder how some of these folks got licenses to begin with.
 
One range I'm with uses a permanent base with two sacrificial wood uprights and you bring along some big pieces of cardboard. Like 24 inches square big. There's a few spare 1x2's sitting in the grass to the side for when the uprights get shot to heck.

The other has a target stand with a rectangular hoop of 5/8 re-bar and you need to bring along basic black or green garbage bags that slip over the hoop and then you shoot to the middle of the bag.
 
Range I'm at uses railroad ties with steel welded receptacles for strapping uprights screwed unto the back of the tie (berm-side). Drop your uprights into there, staple your cardboard on, and stick your targets up. This of course applies to everything, not just shotgun patterning, but still. They usually have some uprights lying around to use, but you bring your own backer or fish some out of the garbage. I usually leave mine up if it's not too shot-out in the hope that someone else will get to it before the rain does.

I also see a lot of corrugated plastic campaign signs used as target backers after an election...
 
We have a skeet and trap range but no one seems to have problem with me using a shotgun on the rifle and pistol ranges. As long as are not shooting up target stands and backing.
Cardboard on 2 sticks directly in front of the berm should keep people from whining. as long as you clean up, what is there to complain about.
Hopefully you can get range time alone so you can move forward and backwards.
 
We have a permanent stand set up near our trap field in which you just staple up a large target and shoot at it from however far you wish, up to about 20 meters or so.

When you shoot your facing the same direction as all the fields so the shot just falls into the shot zone. Simple and effective, it's been there forever.
 
ff33 said:
Use a paint brush roller to spread out and even the "goop" (not sure what it is), blast away then repeat.
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We used to use tubs of white lithium grease troweled/spackled on between shots. Cheap and easy to use and makes a nice white surface to score pellet hits between shots.
 
No shotguns allowed on our range.Don't even have a 100 yrd lane,and were 20 klicks from town in the middle of buttfvck nowhere.Seriously considering not renewing this year.
 
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