$45 11x11" steel trap. 5mm backplate https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CD4NXSZG
If thats too noisy then put a mulch trap in front of it or stuff it with rags
If thats too noisy then put a mulch trap in front of it or stuff it with rags
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Indoor Target Backstop?
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8x11 electrical buss box with duct seal, gets to be a few pounds heavier after a decade, remove and replace duct seal as needed.
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27/14gal totes or I have some made from old breaker boxes … I typically put a piece of plywood or steel in the back, thenfill them with stall mats or out door carpets because I have a ton of. I use cardboard or anything laying around for the targets to stick too untill it’s shot up . I have shot everthing in to them form point blank to 100yrds nothing has gone through one . Even 22lr . The cool thing is you can put the lid on it and slid it on a shelf and it doesn’t look like trash! Breaker box is super portable also . Also no noise ! I shoot inside my store also to sight in for customers
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For the guys using duct seal about how many bricks/pounds are you using for your targets? Looks like that stuff gets kind of pricy for a 2 pack (10 lbs) at home depot running around $30. How thick is the duct seal have to be to fully stop the pellet? I'd imagine it lasts for quite a while before it needs to be replaced and is somewhat self healing so maybe its a longer term investment.
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Angled back "Bounce Box" that splatters pellets against a steel plate on an @ 30* angle down into sand or rubber mulch.
Or buy a portable one utilizing the same principle.
Or buy a portable one utilizing the same principle.
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I bought the Big Bang pellet trap two years ago, offered through ThomasT's welder friend. It uses a thick steel angled back plate inside the aluminum box. It works great, but if impact noise reduction were needed, it'd be easy to tape a corrugated cardboard sheet to the angled plate inside and also put a thin layer of duct seal on the floor to hold the bouncebacks.
I have had pellets bounce back out through an existing lower shot hole on the target paper/cardboard and land on the floor. At the short distance and low power I use, there is no damage from that, but in the cause of reducing lead dust from exiting the trap, I am considering doing the above. Actually, laying down another sheet of corrugated carboard with two-sided sticky tape covering it would also do the trick and it would be easy to remove.
I have had pellets bounce back out through an existing lower shot hole on the target paper/cardboard and land on the floor. At the short distance and low power I use, there is no damage from that, but in the cause of reducing lead dust from exiting the trap, I am considering doing the above. Actually, laying down another sheet of corrugated carboard with two-sided sticky tape covering it would also do the trick and it would be easy to remove.
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At least one layer deep of the 1 pound brick size. Duct seal is so annoying. Cant hit the same place twice without ricochet, have to pluck out the ammo.
one of these with rags would be better imo https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07CG56B6S
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Cardboard box filled with rubber mulch, at least 10” thick, 12” best. Shoot whatever you want as powerful as you want. It’ll stop the projectile
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A four bottle wine box with a handle. Filled with rubber mulch. To prevent pass throughs, I insert a section of used rubber conveyor belt (available on Amazon) into two of the wine slots. Will stop a robust .30 hybrid at 890fps..as long as I don’t shoot more than a 3-4 shots into the same spot. A 5/8” piece of plywood is a insurance backstop. Shots are taken at 9 yards.
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This is way cheaper than the duct seal idea I have been considering. How quiet is it, especially compared to a steel peeler trap?
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Yes, and the cost is a box of correct size, and shredded rubber mulch from home depot, think $6 a bag. Only downside is you will need to relayer the sides of the box as it gets shredded.
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I've been lazy and just grabbed one of the chepest pellet traps online you can find them everywhere for 10-20 bucks and to reinforced it just took 2-3 old t-shirts or underwear and cut it into few pieces and press stuck it inside. It reduces the sound of the impact a lot and this way i've being able to shoot over 100 ft/lbs .30 cal airguns and .25 for zeroing few shots to my regular .177 and .22 low powered 10 yards airguns diana bandit,sig virtus. Tried also the duck tape seal bricks but after a while they get too hard and are not so silent on impact as soft cloths to absorb the impact. Afer 6 moths to 1 year just replace them with some other pair of old stuff for the bin. There however some rubber pices from shreded tires that could be used or plastic shreded pices but then when your target get into holes the fillament will start to fall out you dont replace them but you have to clean more often.
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"Get one of the large Priority Mail boxes "from the post office and fill with rubber mulch from Home Depot.
Tape up the box with duct tape.
FREE BOX !
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