Building Your Own Skeet Layout

[WezC]

Could you build your own skeet layout on private land and shoot as often as you wanted ?

Provided it was the usual distance from the public etc etc ?

Wez

 

[RobertBeard]

You would need to check on planning and change of use regs as to whether any of this applies.

The most likely issue will be complaints about noise if you get as far as getting it built and then restrictions on the amount of use could be imposed.

Suggest you speak to CPSA who should know.

 

[Hawkeye]

You could shoot 28 day's of the year without planning permission , but could still be closed down if there are noise complaint's . You would need to check with your local planning dep't whether you need planning permission to erect trap houses .

 

[Fuzrat]

I have been pondering this in case of a decent lottery win, but shelved the idea. With the cost and planning hassle etc I decided it would be cheaper to do a volume clay deal with an established ground

 

[Fuzrat]

Just done some quick maths, say 200 grand for Buying and levelling the land, trap houses, legal bills etc. If you negotiate £5 per round practice at a local ground that's 40 thousand rounds or 1 million clays. Even Vince Hancock (US Olympic skeet gold) only shoots 60 odd thousand shells a year so working on that you get 16.5 years worth of practice for your 200k. Doesn't make sense to build does it

 

[glb868]

If your land is level as is, it would be cheap. Temp buildings (timber) trap houses, couple of traps, job done. £1500 would see you right.

Temp building should get around planning? And as its not an organised shoot surely you dont have to worry about the 28 day rule??(may be wrong)

 

[Will Hewland]

£200k Fuz? I would think more like £50k..

 

[Hawkeye]

Organised shoot or not , 28 day rule stand's . Fire 1 cartridge  and that takes up 1 of the 28 .

 

[P1Fanatic]

I think Fuz got carried away with the lottery pipe dream and had planned an onsite coffee shop, licensed bar and sports masseuse

 

[glb868]

Organised shoot or not , 28 day rule stand's . Fire 1 cartridge  and that takes up 1 of the 28 .

Does that apply to pigeon shooting etc?

 

[Fuzrat]

I want a canopy to shade me when the suns out and keep the rain off, voice activation so don't need a buttoner and maybe an ice bath for my shoulder

 

[snipey]

Just done some quick maths, say 200 grand for Buying and levelling the land, trap houses, legal bills etc. If you negotiate £5 per round practice at a local ground that's 40 thousand rounds or 1 million clays. Even Vince Hancock (US Olympic skeet gold) only shoots 60 odd thousand shells a year so working on that you get 16.5 years worth of practice for your 200k. Doesn't make sense to build does it

£200k Fuz? I would think more like £50k..

I think it really depends on what you're looking for, I recently became aware of a local group of lads who built a single layout:

- Rented a farmer's field who didn't mind some 'amendments'!

- Borrow/hired a digger to dug into the hillside enough for the stands etc.

- Two stacked container units for the high and a single for the low

- Decent skeet traps

They can shoot Olympic or English (use a speed gun to switch as marker posts would be down hill slightly).

I believe they all chipped in together (no more than £15k) along with some hard graft. Its mainly used by them but allow anyone known to them to help cover the land rent and they charge £6 a round and re-use the pick-ups in some of the sporting type traps they have started to add. Its certainly not the prettiest but its certainly functional and cheap!! So it can be done, obviously if you want Fuz's state of the art shooting complex then everyone best start saving! .

 

[DAG]

Hey fuz you will need a goblin teasmaid or a gobbling teasmaid !!

 

[WezC]

I found some flat land that is not being used which has a bank to catch fallout. 

The nearest other house is 1 mile away.

I was thinking 2 second hand traps on time delay buttons in 2 wood trap houses.

The idea though would be to shoot at least 100 every day though, so you are getting in proper repeat training.

I am pretty sure it would work out quite cheap, but would defeat the whole point if you can only shoot for 28 days in a year.

Wez

 

[Hamster]

Does that apply to pigeon shooting etc?

Yes it does if you hurl them off a trap arm, otherwise no.

 

[Hamster]

If your land is level as is, it would be cheap. Temp buildings (timber) trap houses, couple of traps, job done. £1500 would see you right.

Temp building should get around planning? And as its not an organised shoot surely you dont have to worry about the 28 day rule??(may be wrong)

I agree, few Skeet houses I've ever set eyes on looked any more elaborate than a few hundred quids worth.

 

[Fuzrat]

The problem you have without chucking a decent amount of cash at it, you are practicing possible dodgy targets and practicing a delay where the discipline doesn't have one. If you are going to build a practice layout it needs to be as close or better than the competition layouts you will be shooting. Hence my high Guesstimate

 

[ips]

I think regardless of cost the legalities in todays climate would be horrendous.

 

[Hawkeye]

If you had planning permission the you could shoot as often as they specify