[21twelve]

I can't recall if it was an actual acquaintance or on FR. But someone had taken a room in their basement and put sound absorbing tiles in it and turned into a shooting range.

Then they got the idea for longer distances. Dug a trench and put in a large diameter pipe in the backyard running horizontally - and ends up at the basement wall where they knocked a hole out. Ran a pulley system along the “roof” of the pipe to change out targets, and had lighting every so often in the roof of the pipe. Pretty clever.

[Redcitizen]

That’s pretty good ingenuity. Imagine no range fees or driving somewhere to shoot. I presume there was ventilation to address lead and smoke issues.

[Hardastarboard]

I had a guy in a gun shop tell me once that he had a friend who put up bales of straw at one end of his living room and used that as a shooting range. I thought it was crazy for a number of reasons (sound / neighbors, straw isn’t a great backstop, etc), but he swore it was true. YMMV

[farming pharmer]

Then they got the idea for longer distances. Dug a trench and put in a large diameter pipe in the backyard running horizontally - and ends up at the basement wall where they knocked a hole out. Ran a pulley system along the “roof” of the pipe to change out targets, and had lighting every so often in the roof of the pipe. Pretty clever.

That is a great idea.