Building A Pistol Target Stand

Rather than buy a commercial product i decided to build my own portable target stand.

Building a pistol target stand.

You may be thinking that you don t need 4 stands. One of the things i wanted to include were photos of the flashlights beam at night. 7 pvc 1 5 id pieces 2 4 wood furring strips 2 t joints 2 elbows and 2 end caps. What you will need.

The stand system is super easy to build and inexpensive. For scale i decided to illuminate a target at a known distance. Some backyard gun ranges have become legendary. Range fees can get expensive especially memberships to outdoor ranges that have longer or more advanced firing lines.

Building a home gun range is a great way to become a better shooter and get more out of your firearms investment. Targets my dad and i built two target stands. For that i needed a target stand. 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.

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. This diy 6 cardboard target stand was utilized by a gun club that i was a member of back when i lived in ny. The first target system is a very simple pvc stand. The type of targets that you choose to add is a personal preference.

We utilized this field expedient target stand system when we ran out of mgm metal target stands for our uspsa matches. Everything i bought allowed me to make 4 target stands. Take youtuber hickok45 and his epic backyard range. One for the 100 200 yard lines.

Diy targets the pvc stand. 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. To build it you need eight pieces of black abs pipe that measure 1 5 by 24 inches. Before you build any backyard shooting range on residential property though be sure to check for new laws that might lead to future legal issues.

But think about setting up multiple targets barricades and having a target for your shooting buddy. For my range we constructed mobile target stands out of pressure treated 4 4 s and 2 4 s.