Bangity, Bangity.

One of the problems I have with rifle practice is all of the public ranges in my area are benchrest-only.

I'm visiting my mother today. She lives up north in a rural area, so I brought my .22 Savage rifle, measured off a 25 yard range, threw down a beach blanket and got to shooting. One issue surfaced: I have the scope mounts as far forward as they will go and the scope is as far forward in the mounts as it will go and when I snugged up into the prone position, I was too close to the scope. So I'll get a 1" recoil pad to lengthen the pull of the stock.

It'll look goofy as hell, no doubt, but it will work.

I found an old box from a wine store. I found a chunk of log that would fit inside, so I put dirt in the box to keep the log roughly on the centerline, put the log in, then filled the box with dirt. I shot into the box lengthwise and not a round escaped.

The box after shooting was done:

Then I wrapped a little duct tape around it to reinforce it for the next time: