Today, I was shooting in my back yard and some neighbor called the county saying I was shooting unsafely. Sheriff shows up, I notify (first ever, yay), we chat for a while. He says my backstop isn't good enough.
It's 2 large steel plates at the back of a hole I used a rented small backhoe to dig into a hillside.
I asked him exactly how tall, wide, deep, yadda yadda it needed to be. No real answer. He called the "head of Licking County firearms instructor", who also couldn't recite the requirements. So, I want to be safe, and make any future sheriff visits uneventful. How tall, wide, deep, etc is good enough?
BTW, all he wanted to do was talk guns so much he tried to buy one of the guns I had on the shooting table,