At home test range

[spikeball]

We all finish working on our gear and immediately want to make sure it works, or we get a new marker and we want to try it out. What do you do for test firing your markers at home? Is your set up outside or inside?

I live in a condo and I'm trying to come up with a clever way of doing some testing without making a mess and being obnoxious to my neighbors.

Share your "ranges"!

[Bulldogr6]

I live in a rural area so I just step out my back door onto my deck and shoot at a tree stump about 80' away. I may or may not even be wearing pants lol.

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[Grendel]

Same here I'm rural and can go out the back door of my shop and shoot into the tree line or if I don't want to go outside I have re-balls when I'm working in my alternate "work shop" [basement].

[Jonnydread]

I have a range abutting my woods with hanging ding dong targets

[NONOBLITUS]

I own 2 Acres of land surrounded by 1900 acres of state forest. We Shoot right of the deck here.

[DocsMachine]

I've seen people use rubber trash cans on end, or cardboard boxes with hanging towels inside, as a 'target' to catch paint or spray.

The problem with condo/apartment use, though, is the firing is usually loud enough that you get complaints from neighbors.

Can you open a window and, like, shoot a dumpster or something? The neighbor's pool?

Doc.

[ChoSanJuan]

While the 10% increase in speeds happen with zballs, I just air up and use those to make sure I can get things like eyes to register, full cycling, no leaks, etc... I just can't reliably chrony for paint speeds. A little give and take for being able to finish teching a marker and not making a mess. Wife seems to be OK with it too, so that's a plus!

[wunderbarsafari]

I don’t have the luxury of not wearing pants outside or abutments or ding dongs like others. I shoot reball in the basement. I used to shoot paint, but also have to clean it up. So reball.

[DavidBoren]

The extent of my testing is usually a 12g adapter... does it hold air, right now?

And since I live in an apartment with neighbors below and above me, I usually don't get much further than popping a 12g. I could probably shoot off my back balcony into the wildlife wetlands area, but someone would probably call the cops.

Follow up tests generally include picking it up the next day... is it still holding air?

If yes to both, that b!tch is sealed... send it.

[jerryjjackson69]

I live in an apartment with an upstair, downstairs, and next door neighbor all sharing floors, ceilings, and walls. I do basic testing with a chronograph and reballs. My target is an old pair of beat up jeans dangling in front of a cardboard box with the flaps folded inside to try and catch some of the reballs. The denim is able to take the beating without falling apart, the cardboard catches about 60% of the reballs. One day I will build a better system for ball retention, but the denim is the secret for a long lasting target.

[JasperStout]

I live in a suburban neighborhood on a 1/4 lot. I plink around with my phantom sometimes and I’ve been told you can’t even hear it from inside the house. Semis...... I haven’t tried that yet. For chronoing I just use reballs

[spikeball]

I live in an apartment with an upstair, downstairs, and next door neighbor all sharing floors, ceilings, and walls. I do basic testing with a chronograph and reballs. My target is an old pair of beat up jeans dangling in front of a cardboard box with the flaps folded inside to try and catch some of the reballs. The denim is able to take the beating without falling apart, the cardboard catches about 60% of the reballs. One day I will build a better system for ball retention, but the denim is the secret for a long lasting target.

I kind of stole your idea. I had some sleeves from a jean jacket hanging around. (I liked the material and thought I might use it on something else). I emptied out a plastic rubbermaid storage tote and on one of the short sides, attached both sleeves about 3 inches apart with the inseam cut. Works perfectly. I have a furnace access in my place that has a little bit of storage and I can crouch into. Regular cheap paintballs don't actually break on the jean material or in the tote! I'm just curious what it sounds like outside of the little room.

[Trbo323]

Reballs man.

Or similar

The velocity will be a little off but you can test indoors all you want. Just come up with something to catch them

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[glaman5266]

I usually just shoot outside. But I did buy a road cone a few years back with the intent of setting up an indoor range for winter use. Saw one used at a chronograph station at a field once (tip it, shoot into the bottom) & it seemed to contain the paint fairly well.

[heyzeus]

What reball-hopper combos work best? I bought some unbranded reballs a while back and they don’t consistently feed even through a gravity hopper (Empire Splitter).