Building a Private Shooting Range: Site Setup & Safety
Building a Private Shooting Range: Site Setup & Safety. Dead Air Silencers documents the full process of establishing a multi-distance private range in Utah, covering target placement, fire-season safety protocols { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/dead_air_silencers#person", "name": "Dead Air Silencers", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/dead_air_silencers", "description": "Dead Air Silencers is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/441e730a-eab7-4f78-b6c3-a30e320e17c2.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/private-range-setup-guide-utah#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/private-range-setup-guide-utah" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/private-range-setup-guide-utah", "headline": "Building a Private Shooting Range: Site Setup & Safety", "name": "Building a Private Shooting Range: Site Setup & Safety", "description": "Dead Air Silencers documents the full process of establishing a multi-distance private range in Utah, covering target placement, fire-season safety protocols", "articleSection": "Training & Skills", "articleBody": "Building a private shooting range starts with land clearing and fire mitigation, not target stands. In their range-build video on Greyhive, the crew from Dead Air Silencers documents day one of turning a raw mountain property in Utah into a permanent multi-distance rifle range — and nearly all of the work was digging fire breaks and ripping out dead sagebrush by hand. The property belongs to Keith, a landowner who gave the crew permission to set up permanent steel and then spent the day out there swinging tools alongside them. The plan is ambitious: target stations at roughly 200, 300, 400, 500, and 600, built out over multiple trips. Day one produced two targets and a whole lot of cleared brush. What makes this footage worth studying isn't the gear — it's the sequencing. Dead Air was working with a 25,000-acre fire burning just a few hours south of them , which changed every decision about where steel could safely hang. Key Takeaways Dead Air set up permanent steel on private Utah land while a 25,000-acre wildfire burned a few hours south — fire mitigation drove every siting decision. Target spots were ranged off a parked white truck rather than surveyed; one station measured 490 meters against a 500 target distance. Spot selection prioritized natural openings in the sagebrush over exact yardage — less dead vegetation to clear means less fire risk and less labor. Each target s…