Indoor Target Backstop?

What are you shooting (power wise)? I use cardboard boxes stuffed tightly with old clothes or towels or rags. The size of the box depends on the power I’m shooting. I mostly shoot ten meter power level in the garage so I can get away with smaller boxes. The boxes completely capture the pellet and don’t leave pieces of lead laying around.
Kenny

I use a 5gal+/- bucket stuffed with and thick / old jeans then mounted it in/ on a extra wider backstop ( in this case a 1/2 55 gallon plastic drum) as a just in case i oops buffer zone thing ..

I use boxes of rubber mulch. Best to then line it with a piece of steel to prevent 100% pass thru and it will stop anything then and the rubber contains the splatter and sound. Cheap and easy

I use short lengths of 4" PVC pipe stuffed with a 1lb package of duct seal. Targets just stick right to the surface. I use them indoors with my pistols and outdoors with the rifles, though the rifles can push through the duct seal if you land several shots on top of each other. You could use a deeper section of PVC and more duct seal to mitigate that problem. I just take 5-10 shots and remove the target, squish the duct seal around to fill in any voids and affix another target.

I take 1/2" particle board (x2) backed by 1/4" aluminum plate. I make a box and fill the box with the foam excercise pads to absorb any ricochet. I leave about 1" gap in the bottom to capture the lead.

Seal the wood and you can use it indoors or outdoors. I do put plastic over it outdoors just because and to hide it if necessary.

I collect catalogs at work, magazines, yellow pages, what ever paper you can find, put them in the box, and shoot at that box when I need to tune gun inside of the house, 4-6" thick box will last 200+ shots from 30 caliber, shooting slugs or pellets. You get no ricochet from that, if you shooting at the distance, just find think steel plate 1/8 or thicket, set it at the angle and all your lead will go at the ground

Depends what your shooting ?

I use a plastic tub full of rubber mulch with a piece of horse mat backer .

I shoot 30 caliber Impact M4 slugs and pellets.

cardboard box, rubber mulch, and duct tape

I do like Kgphotos does. When the hole gets ate out just slap a piece of duct tape over it and keep shooting. Takes thousands of shots

From time to time, a friend's child will come to shoot, so a fairly large backstop is desireable. My full power rifles, at 8 yards require some stopping so my stop is a 2x4 frame, with a groove to hold 3/8" cold-rolled steel plate, behind two layers of 1" pine planks, behind two layers of rubber floor matts (to contain rebounds). A layer of cardboard, in front, allows targets to be easily pinned or stapled and removed.

Loug647 said:

So I only have 15-20 feet inside my garage to shoot.
What are you all using for a target backstop?
I was thinking maybe a small portable archery target?

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22 bullet trap, swinger pellet trap. 1 1/4 plywood works for a few shots. Plywood is for accidents. I've got 2 holes in the door by accident.

Card board sandwiches will easily stop .25

stuff a box w other broken down boxes...when it get's too shot up toss it and repeat

I've got two rubber mulch traps. One is a cat litter bucket like shown above and the other is a black and yellow tote. A piece of old carpet on the front keeps debris inside nicely. I've got heavy duty mud-flap material as the final stop inside the containers. These can be used indoor or outdoor, no problem. Quiet impact noise and no splatter. Just shake them up to fluff up the mulch within the container's volume every once in awhile as it will tend to settle a little over time. Nothing has made it through them yet. I have put everything from a 15FPE .177 to a 110 FPE 9mm slug into these with zero pass thru. The handle on the cat litter bucket is handy.

I use a wooden box with a steel plate in the back and twenty pounds of duct seal in front. No ricochets and is silent. Works great for pistol work.

I have a steel .22 trap for function checks. I wrap it in a blanket to control the sound level but it is still ear protection required loud.

I do a lot of indoor shooting over the long, cold Canadian winter so I made a more permanent rubber mulch pellet trap that has a couple of conveniences built in.

I wrote a guest blog about the construction for Pyramyd Air, you might want to check it out and make something similar for your own use...


Cheers!