Ideal size of bays

[Chappytactical]

So the range for our club is going to add another 10-12 bays for us. So what would be the idea bay size you guys would want, if asked by your host range?  Thanks!

[m700]

15 yds wide x 35 yds long with 10' soft berms(dirt) ideally. But for indoor It would be great if they could give you 5'-6' that way you could bring someone in for instruction. At least a few of them. But 4' would be OK. If you have any say a second shelf under the one in front of you would be nice.

[Chappytactical]

6 minutes ago, m700 said:

15 yds wide x 35 yds long with 10' soft berms(dirt) ideally. But for indoor It would be great if they could give you 5'-6' that way you could bring someone in for instruction. At least a few of them. But 4' would be OK. If you have any say a second shelf under the one in front of you would be nice.

Thank you!  I'll bring up the second shelf under the first one to our engineer. We recently acquired another 40 acres and have plenty of dirt to make the berms how we want.

[m700]

I dont do any indoor shooting anymore. So I spend most of my time in what we call the pits. Half of our pits are dirt the other half are giant concrete blocks stacked into walls. Everyone seems to fight for the dirt ones. You eliminate the echo and reduce noise substantially.

 

I worked on 2 indoor ranges from the HVAC side.  And laws changed midway through bidding on both of them because the state laws changed requiring more laminar airflow/ air changes to reduce lead inhalation.

[Chappytactical]

1 minute ago, m700 said:

I dont do any indoor shooting anymore. So I spend most of my time in what we call the pits. Half of our pits are dirt the other half are giant concrete blocks stacked into walls. Everyone seems to fight for the dirt ones. You eliminate the echo and reduce noise substantially.

 

I worked on 2 indoor ranges from the HVAC side.  And laws changed midway through bidding on both of them because the state laws changed requiring more laminar airflow/ air changes to reduce lead inhalation.

For your pits that have concrete blocks, does it limit shooting to the side? We currently have that problem on our current bays. 

[Nathanb]

3 hours ago, Chappytactical said:

For your pits that have concrete blocks, does it limit shooting to the side? We currently have that problem on our current bays. 

The ranges I know that do this limit s#!ts into the side berms. Dirt is the answer 

[m700]

16 hours ago, Chappytactical said:

For your pits that have concrete blocks, does it limit shooting to the side? We currently have that problem on our current bays. 

Yes we are not supposed to direct any fire towards side.and the back berm has dirt piled in front.

[m700]

All my clubs tournaments are in the dirt pits

[barry]

35 yrds deep× 20 wide with 2 50 yrds deep works well for us.

[Chappytactical]

7 hours ago, barry said:

35 yrds deep× 20 wide with 2 50 yrds deep works well for us.

Thanks! That's what we are planning on doing. The contractor is just taking his time to get it done.

[FuzzyGreenHat]

On 4/16/2023 at 8:04 AM, barry said:

35 yrds deep× 20 wide with 2 50 yrds deep works well for us.

Big fan of those for pistol bays. Maybe add a 100 yarder for some rifle and crazy long pistol stages.