50 yard range REFURBISHMENT - overshot photos
Words are nice, but when you are talking construction - you need some photos. Well here you go...
First Things First...
| Pretty crummy penmanship - but it gets the point across. | If things went to plan - we would have the 50 in business again for the 2009 Open House. |
Preparation is the Key (or at least one of the keys)
| Remnants of the old overshot. We plan to put these scraps to good use. | A stack of pressure-treated 4x6x12' columns |
| Our tent made the perfect spot to rip boards to the proper width. | A power auger - you do not want to dig 140 holes 4 ft deep by hand! |
| Mark Pepper decided he would build the troughs on the ground, then lift them in place. | One of the first rows of columns. |
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Construction Gets Rolling
| The first six rows in place. | Filling the first six rows with stone. |
| Making sure the troughs are filled is done by hand. | With the first six rows in place, Mark built outward one bay at a time. |
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| Mark (right) takes a break to answer a question. | Scott Souza makes sure the gravel for the firing line gets delivered in the right place. |
| See how the bucket is in the foreground - and the overshot is in the background? That's what you call art. |
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We're Getting There...
| View from firing line - you can't see anything but dirt, wood and stone. | The left side wall - tin sheets form cavities that we filled with more stone. We like stone. |
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All Done!
| Mark and his team put on the finishing touches. | A view from the top - parallel to the firing line |
| We like troughs too, especially when they are filled with stone. | Mark's sign posted high above the overhsot. |
| Mark Pepper standing by the completed project. |
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