Looking for suggestions for a 'bullet' trap for use with a BB gun

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I have a steel bullet trap that's rated for up to .22LR that I use with my .177 pellet pistols.

However when I use this trap with a BB gun, the steel BBs end up all over my workshop because the BBs bounce out of the trap rather than collect inside.

I think I might try sticking a piece of scrap carpet inside the 45 degree angled back of the trap to see if that'll help.

Anyone have any other suggestions to try as I'm getting tired of having to search and vacuum my entire workshop to clean up.
 
Goto the hardware store, in the electrical asile there stuff called duct seal. Looks like a brick of C4. Smear that on the back side. It will quiet it down, and stop them bouncing out. It is like a rubberized playdough.

Actually tomorrow I have to goto my house. I'll snap a picture. Half tempted to bring it to my rental so I can plink.

Another thing to prevent BBs from bouncing out is those foam gym mat. Taped to the front.
 
Fusilier said:
My trap already has a 45 degree angled down back. Adding a layer of sand in the bottom might do the trick.
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Rubber mulch is another choice. Too bad I'm not in the city anymore. Got a half bag of it, and pretty much a brick of duct seal. All from airgun trap projects. Till I found CT clearanced a 22LR bullet trap.
 
When I was a kid, a friend and his wacky brothers had a BB trap one of them made entirely out of pine and plywood. It caught them nicely and was located at the end of the upstairs hallway where their bedrooms were located. Opening was about a foot square IIRC.
 
I used to find a cardboard box, and cut a thin pc. of plywood/masonite/MDF sized to the inside width. Have that sized so that at rest, it angles 45 degrees downward and you can close the box. I'd lay an old towel or some rags in the box so that once the BB's ricochet downwards they hit something soft and stop.
 
Clay Huntin' Canuck said:
Used to use old jeans 👖 just hung them up and put a catch pan ,(dish wash pan from dollar store) and old 💿 CDs make great targets 👍🏼
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In some recent family shootouts, a moving blanket worked a treat with BBs, especially because it was still wrapped in the plastic it came in which collected the BBs, came folded about 2 feet square. Got it in a $5 sale from Princess Auto and stuffed it into an open topped Costco sourced cardboard box I brought groceries home in. Kids only missed and hit the side of the garage serving as a berm a few times out of hundreds and hundreds of shots. Eye pro still required BTW, some BBs came back from those hits on the garage.
 
I just put an old piece of bath towel. Obviously doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. Mine catches 177 and 22pellets, tho I use an old baking sheet for the 45* back, so it directs the pellets more consistently.
 
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