Installing stake holders for our Traditional range. Our hope is that we can keep track of the stakes so we don't have to scramble trying to find them every time we have a shoot. These stakes are easy to handle and store. Years ago we used painted steel pipe sections about 15" long which had to be driven in the ground with a hammer. Carrying 3-4 stakes per lane for for 5-6 lanes made for a heavy bucket and a lot of work not to mention the trip hazard if someone didn't see a stake. Then we switched to 3/4" PVC pipe sections. That was a lot lighter but was still a bulky load to carry plus we still needed stakes to hold the PVC sections upright. This latest setup has worked well, is pretty compact and light weight. Problem we've had is keeping track of them when everything is pulled after a shoot. Our hope is that we can get the volunteers who help pull the range, to put the stakes in these holders so we know where they are for the next shoot. As a bonus, if the stakes are still in the holder after the 3D animals are set on the range we will know the stakes for that lane still need to be set, no surprise during the shoot finding out a lane has no stakes set for shooting positions.
We use 5" square painted steel plates set flush with the ground, with the same type whiskers attached to them for the compound shooters but they stay in place for the entire season so finding them for each shoot is not a problem. The Traditional shooting stakes are re-positioned for every shoot.
Note: As a test for me, this video was recorded with an Olympus Tough TG-6 camera