Made myself a .22LR Bullet Trap/Catcher
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maple_leaf_eh
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angle of riccochet
Make sure the back end of your bullet trap is strong and solidly attached along the seam with the top angle.
I remember reading the Range Safety and Inspection Guidelines many years ago and feeling the writers were being intellectually dishonest - not just with the whole text, but when they were commenting on the angle of riccochets. In the text, a bullet will bounce off at the same angle it arrives. Supposedly a bullet fired at 45degrees, riccochets at 45degrees. However, try that with a basketball on a smooth surface and you will see the ball loses a lot of energy and leaves slower and at a shallower angle. A book I read about Northern Ireland (?) warned soldiers to either get completely inside a doorway or stand out in the street. The Lesson Learned was that bullets that hit walls tend to travel along the wall.
Make sure the back end of your bullet trap is strong and solidly attached along the seam with the top angle.
I remember reading the Range Safety and Inspection Guidelines many years ago and feeling the writers were being intellectually dishonest - not just with the whole text, but when they were commenting on the angle of riccochets. In the text, a bullet will bounce off at the same angle it arrives. Supposedly a bullet fired at 45degrees, riccochets at 45degrees. However, try that with a basketball on a smooth surface and you will see the ball loses a lot of energy and leaves slower and at a shallower angle. A book I read about Northern Ireland (?) warned soldiers to either get completely inside a doorway or stand out in the street. The Lesson Learned was that bullets that hit walls tend to travel along the wall.
Make sure the back end of your bullet trap is strong and solidly attached along the seam with the top angle.
Welded with 6011 and 7018 rod, I still have a AC welder.
