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    Posted: 15 Feb 2026 at 9:27pm
Lol. Nice. What a great setup. My inlaws are immigrating here from South Africa in the next two years. If they get the health clearance we will need to buy a new house where we can drop granny flat/tiny home on it. I said that’s fine on the condition it’s on a lifestyle block with a shooting range out the back. Sure hope they pass the medical 😂
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I'm lucky to live on a 5 acre life sentence block in a tiny home/granny flat with my daughter, son-in-law and grandson in an old farm house across the fence.  The nearest neighbour's house is over mile away and he's half deaf anyway - so noise is not an issue.   Mind you it will get quite noisy soon once the roar starts.
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What a cool set up. I’m officially jealous of the yard size to be able to sent that up. Wish I could buy a strip of land just to plink in
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Wish I had space like that.
My neighbours are so close I can hear them when they laugh... and thats not funny.
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So ... 

the closest target was a bit of a a fail - hitting any of the "hanging"  disks tangled them up so they did not "reset" though they did survive hits from the 30 cal.   The spinner on the right side is fine and coped OK with hits from the 30 cal.

The 30 cal vaporised a "soldiers" at 15m  though did leave the feet intact that can be used as a much smaller target.  The 22 left both the feet and head intact so I got two smaller targets for that one.

The large "Lego man" left 3 smaller pieces after being hit by the 30 cal and the gnome 2 so not too bad.  the smaller bits are more of a challenge to hit.  The spinner at 20m is good though one of the  targets is a bit bent after a hit on the top of the disk where it joins the hanger.

Overall a success.
  



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All set to test out some targets - closest is 10m next is 15, then 20 with the last ones at 30. Keen to see what the 30cal can do to the plaster of paris ones at 20m




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Such a good idea. Just wish I hard the yard to do that in.
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I got the idea for plaster of paris targets from this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3RWOlUhDU&list=LL&index=186
takes it to a whole different level LOL!


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Lol. Cheers Paul. You met me last year. I bought you a coffee when you kindly gave me some of your time to give advice on pcp rifles 🙂
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Sick man! They must be a lot of fun to shoot. I bet they explode wouldn’t they?
I’d like to be able to shoot my old matchbox cars to make them look like they’ve been in a crash/war zone shoot out. But can’t really put them on the range I shoot st I don’t believe.
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I wish there was a way to like message in this forum lol. I’ve always thought about doing the same thing. That’s literally all it would take is someone wealthy to do it. I’m not wealthy but I’d defiantly contribute money and my time to help something like this kick off.
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I've started making some plaster of paris targets as shown bellow 

have only tried the astronaut rabbit, soldier and large "Lego man" ones so far - mostly with my 177 pistol which does break them up pretty well.  Usually get a few pieces I can reuse which can get quite challenging to hit.  The larger ones should be good with the 30 cal!  Also bought a roll of splash targets I mostly use for my pistol with a light duty pellet trap I have.

 
I also have a number of spinner targets I must make up stands for too.
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If I win th.. no wait, When I win the lotto, I'm building an 100m long concrete walled building and making an AWESOME indoor shooting range, which will be 22deg all year round, luxury shooting benches, good lighting, and ranges from 5m to 100m...
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Yes please that would be awesome.  Unsure I have the money to do it but with crowd funding and talking to the right people on here perhaps it could be made to work.  thank you much appreciated.
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