How tall should a berm be?

[GreenScoutII]

It took me a while to get a BobCat down to my place to build a berm. Truthfully, prepare to bring a large front end loader out to get it much higher than 7-8 feet. BobCat just isn't big enough...

What you can do as a temporary measure is get several medium size cardboard boxes, roughly 24x18x18 give or take, fill them with dirt and stack em up. Use T-posts to reinforce the stack from behind. Once you get it about 5 feet high and how ever wide, it works great for rimfires and handguns. Don't blast it with .44 mags, but it will stop 9mm, .45 ACP, .38 spl and the like.

Could be a quick way to get shooting on your land untill you get some earth moving equipment out there.

[DocMedic]

Just build a downhill berm like this one.



and by "swiming pull" i mean Swimming Pool !

[Irving]

Foxtrot, I see what you mean, but I was talking about tires in the middle of a dirt pile, so it'd probably be more like the dirt would just wash off first.

DocMedic, Funny you should post that picture, because that is actually the current situation on the land right now, it's just not really ideally located.

[Great-Kazoo]

20' center trailing down to 10' on the sides. a richocet 3/4 of the way down range due to squib load or shaken shooter will clear 20' with no problem.
the berms at my range www.wcfw.org are 30' and you still hear the occassional richocet

[Irving]

Shooting on flat land sucks. I wish I just had a mountain as a back drop to shoot at.

[GreenScoutII]

My land is pancake flat as well. I usually limit my shooting to rimfire, shotgun, and handguns for safety. I will shoot centerfire, but extreme caution must be exercised. I'm going to enlarge my berm to a U shape at least 50 ft. wide and as tall as I can make it. The only hard part is the cost of equipment rentals.

[sniper7]

at least 100' high u shaped to 50' high on the sides.

go big or go home