Tag: Gun Range
Reopening The Rifle Range
As the grass has gotten taller with the Spring rains, I have intentionally not cut it. My logic is as follows: The more gun...
Barn Construction 5 – Final
As many of you have noticed, our content posting scheduled has slowed down over the past week. As expected, this is because we are...
Coyote On The Porch
Apparently coyote is Indian for Peeping Tom. I mean…why wouldn’t they come up and look around the new building? They run this place. But...
Coyote Door – First Look
Thought some of you would find this interesting. Here are the first pics of the “Coyote Door”. An indoor, environmentally controlled, shooting position that...
Barn Construction Pics 2
Well…it’s been another month in the building process so it’s time to give an update.
Right now, we have base gravel done, drains and water...
New 600 Yard Shooting Pad
So while building the new range barn, we decided to drop a small cement pad at the 600 yard shooting position. This gets us...
New Grading Scraper
Ok. We picked up a new implement for the John1911 Range tractor. What I call a grading scraper or land leveler. But what Ironcraft...
Clearing Out The Shooting Shelter
One of the criticisms that was leveled about our main covered shooting position is too many bugs. In particular ticks. Actually it’s fair to...
Re-Gravel The Ranges
Range maintenance is coming along swimmingly. Trying to get all the major work done before we get too close to deer season. Gravel for...
EP-274: The Stripper & The Fire Truck
Episode 274 of the John1911 podcast (I accidently said 275 on air) is now live:
Why we were gone for a bit.
Tractor Issues...
Pole Saw Work
Part of the effort of introducing a large cabbed tractor is having to cut any offending branches on the existing trail system. Since most...
Container Shelving
One project for this Winter is to make storage on the John1911 range more efficient. The first thing is to remove all floor standing...
SCAR-20 517 Yard Group
SCAR-20 517 Yard Group
I took these pics over the summer. Doc was going through his 155g load testing protocol for the SCAR-20. Needless to...
POTD – 7 Hours of Bush Hogging
The bad news is I have been bush hogging for 7 hours. The good news is the bush hog actually ran for 7 hours!...
