DIY: A Simple Target Stand for Your Home Range

I ran across this on reddit this afternoon. It shows a simple way to use common hardware to make a sturdy frame from which you can hang targets.

The frame is of iron water pipe with eye bolts, S-hooks, and chains used to attach hanging steel plates.

The targets don’t have to be steel, although that’s what this person used. The same concept could easily be used to hold wire mesh, then use spring clothesins to hold cardboard backers to the wire. Use a staple gun to attach targets to the backer.

The thin S-hooks used on this one probably won’t last very long, although with limited use and/or rimfire rounds they might hang in there for quite a while.

Looks like a great way to have some fun, although the backstop leaves a bit to be desired.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.