Building A Pistol Target Stand

The 1 2 target supports are easily replaced when necessary.

Building a pistol target stand.

Building a home gun range is a great way to become a better shooter and get more out of your firearms investment. Take youtuber hickok45 and his epic backyard range. Plus it would probably cost you nearly as much to build one stand as it would be to buy the material in bulk and build 4. But think about setting up multiple targets barricades and having a target for your shooting buddy.

There are a lot of diy hobbyists in the gun world. You may be thinking that you don t need 4 stands. For my range we constructed mobile target stands out of pressure treated 4 4 s and 2 4 s. With steel targets spread out up and down a ravine it s a place we all dream of trying out.

7 pvc 1 5 id pieces 2 4 wood furring strips 2 t joints 2 elbows and 2 end caps. To build it you need eight pieces of black abs pipe that measure 1 5 by 24 inches. One of the things i wanted to include were photos of the flashlights beam at night. The first target system is a very simple pvc stand.

What you will need. I assembled five 16 long pieces to form the base of the target stand using the 2 t joints and 2 end caps the remaining two pieces of 16 length were added as vertical sections using the elbows at the ends opposite the end caps where the wooden furring strips will be inserted. Range fees can get expensive especially memberships to outdoor ranges that have longer or more advanced firing lines. If you were to look into the back of my toyota 4runner right now you d see this stand which breaks down into several pieces for easy transportation.

This diy 6 cardboard target stand was utilized by a gun club that i was a member of back when i lived in ny. Rather than buy a commercial product i decided to build my own portable target stand. Some backyard gun ranges have become legendary. Diy targets the pvc stand.

We utilized this field expedient target stand system when we ran out of mgm metal target stands for our uspsa matches. One for the 100 200 yard lines. Everything i bought allowed me to make 4 target stands. For scale i decided to illuminate a target at a known distance.

For that i needed a target stand. The type of targets that you choose to add is a personal preference.