Bullet Trap ideas that the CFO will approve.

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I am about to have a first inspection for a new business and want to put in a bullet trap so I can have "Test Facility on location" on my business license.

I need ideas for a bullet trap. I would prefer something that you know has been passed but will take any ideas. The person has told me that they want to see something that does not involve aiming, just put it in a "bullet trap" and pull the trigger.

Thank you for your help.

JEK
 
There are many "bullet traps" commercially available.
Caswell makes unloading stations that would suffice....
 
Are you planning on testing for accuracy or just functioning (how close would you be to the trap)? A "snail"-type trap can be made fairly simply with some T1 steel and pipe, but if that's too much work, 6 feet of sand and gravel will stop just about any small-arm projectile.
 
JEK said:
I am not allowed to test for accuaracy. I am testing fuctionality only. Any ideas or plans are welcome.
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if your just testing function http://www.snailtraps.com/ has a few compact tool box size traps going up to giant full scale ranges traps. you can give them a call and the ywill send you an inf opackage with all there products and a DVD to watch
 
Sand and gravel would be the easiest backstop then, but you'd still need some way to periodically clean the trap out; if you had a 55-gallon plastic drum packed with sand in the middle of your backstop bunker, that would probably catch the majority of it; that, or dig a pit that you could shoot down into, then winch the drum out for replacement every 1000 rounds or so. This is essentially what the "clearing drums" are at firearms checkpoints; even though they don't EXPECT rounds to be fired into them, they need to be able to stop those rounds when it happens. That, or weld up a "snail"-type trap out of T1 that feeds into a drum that you can replace occasionally.
 
Seeing as the CFO will be passing judgement on whatever you install, maybe it would be best to ask them exactly what they would accept.
 
tiriaq said:
Seeing as the CFO will be passing judgement on whatever you install, maybe it would be best to ask them exactly what they would accept.
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x2....get it from the horses mouth. That way you can't go wrong.(hypothetically speaking)

HYPOTHETICAL - a word I learned today....
 
I just had my inspection today and my bullet trap was approved. It was a 5 foot peice of 8 inch well casing 3 feet in the ground on an angle that has 4 feet of sand in it.

They loved it.
 
tiriaq said:
Seeing as the CFO will be passing judgement on whatever you install, maybe it would be best to ask them exactly what they would accept.
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Bingo. There is a guidbook from the range inspector on ranges and traps.
 
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