unless or until the hearing protection act becomes law, i am looking for ideas to control noise on an open air rifle range. private, one shooting position. one option that comes to mind is putting a bench at the open end of a shipping container (pad the walls) to at least direct the noise more downrange. has anyone tried this?
noise mitigation on private range
- Thread starter chop house
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http://forum.accurateshooter.com/th...ooting-caben-built-to-suppress-sound.3860461/
http://forum.accurateshooter.com/th...ooting-caben-built-to-suppress-sound.3860461/
ok.... "open-air"
timeout
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I have a raised stand near the road so I can shoot over the corn field to 600. I think it's fun to let one fly just as a spandex clad greenie, complete with an ice cream bucket on his noggin is pedaling his $5000 bicycle past my driveway. Muzzle brake is great. Suppressor or padded shipping container would dampen my fun.
snert
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Gotcha! My bad.
A rifle range outside where you want to not bother people!
Build bench and in front of it 1/3 bury a bunch of tractor tires, filled to the inside with foam. Kinda like a kids playground tunnel. Shoot thru the 2/3 opening. Problem presented is line of sight. Bad things can happen when you can't see all around.
close, and a couple of slick tips in that thread... shooting through a tube made of suspended tires and fiberglass batting turned inside out covered with chicken wire in place of true anechoic cones. I don't care for the limited visibility down range, and thus was envisioning the shooting position at or near the open doors with the work area behind toward the closed end.
Be sure to post pics and outcomes! Sounds like an interesting project.
This is a steel "tool shed". It's the kind of thing that you can find at construction sites where it would be used for onsite storage of tools, paint, flammables, explosives, chemicals, etc. They come with or without the windows, floor, locks on the door, lifting eyes, etc. This one is floorless and was obviously used and sold for pennies on the dollar at the end of a multi-year project. I put it on a haywagon and put a propane heater in it to use it for a deer blind, but it is also the shooting house for my range. I wear both ear plugs and ear muffs when I'm inside it, especially when shooting the 7mmRM. The bench sits on a raised wood platform inside to make it high enough to shoot through the windows. When shooting straight out of the door from about midway, it does a good job of containing the noise, but sometimes loose paint falls on me.
Yeah, but that's always a risk with deer blinds. If I was in a situation where that was likely to happen, I would have viewports or mirrors or something to prevent accidentally shooting a trespasser. Holes can easily be cut into these walls, but then you lose some of the acoustic benefit. When I was at a range in Wyoming, we shot through 8' steel culvert pipes that were buried in a berm at their middles. It was surprisingly quiet behind the shooter. Of course, they didn't let people get downrange.
This is what I have seen and it works well.
He had a row of tires suspended off a frame going out about 10 feet. The biggest tires were closest to the bench and a small tire at the end, all tied together with rope and some roof insulation jammed in some of the tires. It cost him nothing for components and took an afternoon to put together once he found enough old tires. Pretty much everything we shot through it was supersonic. It was still pretty noisy for the shooter and those standing around him, and still had the supersonic crack, but it was much much quieter when we stood around his boundary fence trying to guage the noise. It made the big guns we were shooting sound like 22 Hornets or 222s.
Another shooting friend has just built a semi insulated cabin (totally open on target end) and we will likely do something very similar.
nicholst55
Brass Whore
Sound baffles? A treeline on both sides of the range?
muleman69
USMC -1st marine Div. RVN
I use the plastic culvert which is light and easy to work with. Yes keep an eye on down range for sure
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