Kokohead open today?

Aloha!!

Kokohead open today?

Aloha!!

It is open til 1600...2ahawaii bbq after!

No, no, no!  I wish people would stop saying that Home Depot will cut your lumber for you.  You need to tell your wife that in order to build a frame, you need to buy a cordless drill, preferably from a quality manufacturer like Milwaukee or DeWalt, and a sliding compound miter saw, again from a good manufacturer.  Then you'll need a drill press, a good-size work bench, and various hand tools and drill bits.    

Or, at least that's how it works for me!   


OMG, you know some people get their range time revoked for suggestions like that
Repeat after me: "I know it's expensive, honey, but these tools will last a lifetime, and I can use them to do counters, build cabinets, make little girls' rocking horses, and finally finish those kitchen upgrades you're so keen on."   

Yeah uh... we rent.

But at my old place in Kingsland Georgia, I had everything you could need to fix a house.  Table saw, 12" compound miter, air compressor / nail guns, other saws, drills, etc. etc.

 

^^^I had my guys build my good rifle frame.  Then I shot one leg up with my H&K USC.  I can thank the idiots at Kokohead who don't know how to line up their targets properly for shooting out my target at 100 yds when they have improperly set up their frame at 50 yds.

That's nuts, I would get kinda irritated myself

As per the old timers at Kokohead:

Don't waste your time and money; buy the cheapest lumber that can be used (or use free scraps from city mill if you are lucky), some shims and some nails, and make a ghetto frame that will work.

I recently made a takedown frame with custom heat shaped PVC joints; one misplaced shot, and all my hard work went down the crapper, and I had to shoot at the 200m steel targets for the rest of the day.

Since then, I took 'unko's' advice and just find cheap wood and make ghetto frames. Personally, the most important part is getting the frame to stand upright and stay put; who cares what it looks like.

Yeah I learned that lesson making a killer takedown frame for the pistol range using some expensive prime indoor pressed wood, than my wife shot my frame and unlike cheap wood, the wood I had just totally snapped in half with one shot.....so I fixed it and make a ghetto frame just for the lady!!!

Duct tape is your friend!  Enough duct tape can reinforce any part of the wood that has been shot up.

During one visit I notice there was some pounding going on at the base area.

Do you need to bring "wedges" to keep the pistol target firmly secured?

there's all kinds of little scrap shards on the ground from other people's shot up frames
i just grab a few of those and use them to wedge in my frame

During one visit I notice there was some pounding going on at the base area.

Do you need to bring "wedges" to keep the pistol target firmly secured?

da unkos are usually right
we were discussing this with nomemclature yesterday at the range get together
he said he hasn't figured out how to make a collapsible stand that was easy to carry on his motorcycle
we said to use c-clamps or staple a stiff piece of plastic like a political sign

As per the old timers at Kokohead:

Don't waste your time and money; buy the cheapest lumber that can be used (or use free scraps from city mill if you are lucky), some shims and some nails, and make a ghetto frame that will work.

I recently made a takedown frame with custom heat shaped PVC joints; one misplaced shot, and all my hard work went down the crapper, and I had to shoot at the 200m steel targets for the rest of the day.

Since then, I took 'unko's' advice and just find cheap wood and make ghetto frames. Personally, the most important part is getting the frame to stand upright and stay put; who cares what it looks like.

Yeah I learned that lesson making a killer takedown frame for the pistol range using some expensive prime indoor pressed wood, than my wife shot my frame and unlike cheap wood, the wood I had just totally snapped in half with one shot.....so I fixed it and make a ghetto frame just for the lady!!!

Yeah, pistol bullets just punch a clean hole through soft pine (unless they hit a knot!).

During one visit I notice there was some pounding going on at the base area.

Do you need to bring "wedges" to keep the pistol target firmly secured?

I used to do that until I got tired of getting wood splinters on my fingers.

I bought 2 el-cheapo spring clamps from Home Depot and clamp my frame to the target stand so it doesn't fall down.