I've had a piece of 3/8ths steel (2' x 2') sitting in my garage from a project that never got off the ground and certainly wasn't airgun related. I've also had a pile of scrap ,treated 4x4's.
I've started turning the combination of the 2 into my 100y target trap.
I've got the base ready to get bolted together but want to position the uprights so I can verify dimensions.
I want to mount the steel at an angle to drive the majority of the lead down (mostly) into a catch tray. But since it's 'only' 2ft I want to keep it as vertical as possible for max target area.
Current plans are for a 20 degree down angle from vertical. Is that enough to concentrate the lead toward the back rather than have more splatter than recoverable lead?
I'm tempted to spend some new $ and line the whole thing but while the stuff I'm using wasn't free originally, the target trap is, or the stuff that's been sitting here for years would have been trash. So I'll call this all free but for my time.
I'll have this done this weekend regardless, room for 12 of my 'approximate' EBR targets up top and some steel plate targets on the lower half (and a lot less stress about where my neighbors cows are).
EDIT - no wonder your guys were teasing me on the plate.... I wrote 5/8th... it's 3/8ths. Still much thicker than my .22 bullet traps though. I corrected this post.
I've started turning the combination of the 2 into my 100y target trap.
I've got the base ready to get bolted together but want to position the uprights so I can verify dimensions.
I want to mount the steel at an angle to drive the majority of the lead down (mostly) into a catch tray. But since it's 'only' 2ft I want to keep it as vertical as possible for max target area.
Current plans are for a 20 degree down angle from vertical. Is that enough to concentrate the lead toward the back rather than have more splatter than recoverable lead?
I'm tempted to spend some new $ and line the whole thing but while the stuff I'm using wasn't free originally, the target trap is, or the stuff that's been sitting here for years would have been trash. So I'll call this all free but for my time.
I'll have this done this weekend regardless, room for 12 of my 'approximate' EBR targets up top and some steel plate targets on the lower half (and a lot less stress about where my neighbors cows are).
EDIT - no wonder your guys were teasing me on the plate.... I wrote 5/8th... it's 3/8ths. Still much thicker than my .22 bullet traps though. I corrected this post.