>>1769940You want more than ten acres.
That's just under 9 footballs fields.
It might seem like a lot, until you setup your range. 300 yards is standard qualifying distance for 18 year olds in boot camp.
On an average ten acre plot I could sit in a corner and kill anything on the property.
Its illegal to shoot towards a road. You have to be a certain distance from a road (usually 50 yards). And when you realize where your neighbors house or barn is in the background you suddenly realize you can't safely shoot on your property without building 1,000 feet of burms.