Indoor shooting

[mantech30]

Who shoots indoor (raining), and what do you shoot?

PS. Thank you to all that respond. I'm a newbie and I learn from you all.

 

[Glem.Chally]

I shoot inside with .22 just turn the power way down. Use a gallon plastic empty laundry soap container stuffed tight with cut up pieces of old clothes as a pellet catcher.

Can staple targets to it and it stops anything.

 

[grackleblast]

I shoot in my basement/ garage......17 yds usually with my HW 30 or my Xisco XS 60C . : lots of fun on a cold rainy day. Mostly offhand trying to improve those skills (ain't happening).

Herb

 

[Guest]

In the garage I have 12-13 yards.

Downstairs inside I have 15 yards ending in an unused fireplace.

In the garage I shoot everything, especially the noisy springers.

In the house the FWB300 and the IZZY... 

 

[Insanity]

I am working toward setting up a indoor range in my attic I have a thread on it with some pictures. 

 

[licskeet]

This wasn’t my idea , but I found it in the web somewhere... A great pellet and .22LR trap is a box filled with rubber mulch. The only cost is the mulch, about $15. I took a cardboard box about 3’ x 2’ x 1.5’ , filled it with two bags of rubber mulch, and inserted another smaller box and sheets of cardboard snugly in the open end to hold it all in. It is recessed about 8” to retain the paper and cardboard debris that accumulates while shooting. I attached a couple of clips on the top edge of the box open end to suspend targets. It’s very silent, all you hear is the gun report. The rounds just collect in the mulch. A std velocity 22 is stopped at about 12” in the mulch which is 2’ deep. I replace the retainer sheets of cardboard and inner box when pieces of mulch start falling through, maybe 1000 rds or so? I like having the paper targets suspended in mid air, you get nice clean holes in the target and a small flashlight at the bottom of the opening out of harms way makes them easy to see.

 

[Insanity]

That light idea is a really good one I am gonna steal that for sure. 

 

[Elbowgrease]

I shoot indoors and use a rubber mulch pellet trap I made. About 15 yards or so.

 

[nomojo65]

I shoot in my basement all winter( 16.5yds is all I have ) I do it mainly for practicing my bench setup & trigger control, I just bought a new rest so want all this to be second nature in the spring! Plus I’ll do some pellet testing between lots & guns & cleaning regiment etc.

 

[Skillet]

Cardboard box stuffed w/old britches, shirts etc. keep a roll of duct tape to patch the front when it gets too ragged.

 

[bowwild]

I use the same box of rubber mulch that licskeet described above. Works great and is very quiet. I have a 13 yard range in my walk-out basement. I use it for archery and air guns. 

 

[chasdicapua]

 I shoot in my basement all winter. (Nov - March) I shoot .177 PCP target rifles. 19 yards wasn't enough, so I cut a hole in the wall (one side is studded) and put a 18" tube out to a box that houses the pellet trap. (box with rubber mulch) Now I can shoot 25 yards (indoors). I do have to walk outside to change targets, but it's worth it for me. 

Chas

 

[triples]

I shoot an HW30 indoors all winter, I use an old metal electric fuse box filled with duct seal

 

[mobilemail]

I shoot in my basement, ~11 yards. I have a rimfire bullet trap that handles all my airguns with impunity, even at point blank range. The highest power I have put into it is about 55fpe.

They are a bit loud, but at $50 are a great option.

 

[outdoorman]

Raining here today too. I just go to the sunroom, open the door and shoot from there to a couple of spinner targets I have at 30 and 50 yards

 

[kpaoletti]

I set up a basement range about six years ago when I was rebuilding and testing the old CO2 Schimel pistols. Added a chronograph later which works flawlessly after I used the proper indoor lighting. An old steel bullet trap I bought some 65 years ago (when I was a lot younger) works very well to shoot into. After I found a lot of lead dust on the shooting stand I switched to lead free pellets. I now have started to collect and shoot PCPs and the setup works very well. I expect that the steel bullet trap would handle and pcp caliber.

 

[Jonah]

I shoot all my CO2 pistols in the shop into a steel backstop. Will only test fire the rifles due to short space.

 

[ironlion269]

Shoot in my garage, either 8 yds if actually inside the garage, or 10 yds if I open the laundry room door. If it's too cold out and the garage is below 55 F then I stick to 8 yds with the door closed. Shooting a variety of guns all in .177: Daisey/Avanti 853 10m with peep sights; two different Gamo youth rifles, the G2 Tactical and the Recon G2; Crosman F4 detuned Nitro Piston; Beeman P-17 over-lever pneumatic pistol; Marauder factory standard tuned to ~12 ft. lbs. My heaviest pellet traps are heavy-duty cardboard boxes filled with rubber mulch topped by old T-shirts, then shut up and fully wrapped in duct tape. I shoot into the T-shirt side of the box to extend the life of the "shooting face" of the trap, then just re-wrap with relatively inexpensive duct tape. I also use Duct Seal putty in many applications to quiet the pellet strike and capture the pellets at the same time. I have an old Remington steel pellet trap that I line with Duct Seal to both prevent ricochets and reduce the deformation of the steel backing when shooting up close or with heavier calibers. I even have old pizza boxes filled with layers of other cardboard pieces cut to fit the outer box and sealed with duct tape. These I use when shooting the P-17 or the Avanti 10m since they are both very low power. Like many others have pointed out on this site, I always back my pellet traps with several layers of hardened wood as a fail-safe should a shot penetrate any of my traps... or if I manage to zing a pellet off in an unexpected direction by nicking a target or misfire. Indoor shooting is a must in colder climates but expect the unexpected.

 

[Brislee]

I shoot in my basement @ 10 yards. I shoot in my shop @ 15 yards. My favorite is we have a short distance silhouette competition @ my shop where we open one garage door about 4 feet, we stand at the other end of the shop (15 yards from the door so we are warm and dry ) and we shoot out into the yard outside my shop which is 1 floor below street level, surrounded by walls on 3 sides 15 feet high. NRA silhouettes @ 18 yrds for chickens.....23 yrds for pigs......28 yrds for turkeys.......32 yrds for rams. I have 7 HW30'S now all with Hawke 4-12 scopes we use. Great way to get through a rainy day.