pellet traps for youth shooting

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dr.zorba

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hello all

I recently started an outdoor club at home. Winter is coming so i want an inside archery/ air rifle range. All my locals schools churches etc are less than enthused about us using their facility.
I am looking for a pellet trap design to satisfy even the most rabid safety nuts,any ideas suggestions? does anyone know about liability of the building concerning injury?
Isn't it strange that the love of volunteers doesn't extend to shooting sports!!

thanks
J
 
dr.zorba said:
hello all

I recently started an outdoor club at home. Winter is coming so i want an inside archery/ air rifle range. All my locals schools churches etc are less than enthused about us using their facility.
I am looking for a pellet trap design to satisfy even the most rabid safety nuts,any ideas suggestions? does anyone know about liability of the building concerning injury?
Isn't it strange that the love of volunteers doesn't extend to shooting sports!!

thanks
J
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A 4-5 inch thick carton stuffed with old jeans and sheets stops .177 pellets fired at 880FPS, and it's very quiet.
 
A friend of mine told me on the weekend about a pellet trap he built, he found the instructions on line, using electrical putty as the internal back stop. He says the pellets stop reliably, don't actually embed in the putty, and are easily collected. The pellets don't break up.
 
What velocity of air rifle are you using?.... if it's tegh standard run of the mill sub 500fps jobbie a wool army blanket hung from the ceiling will do the trick... I shoot mine with the young lad in the basement and I have a small secion of eavestrough under the blanket that collects the pellets for me....
 
Fusilier said:
A friend of mine told me on the weekend about a pellet trap he built, he found the instructions on line, using electrical putty as the internal back stop. He says the pellets stop reliably, don't actually embed in the putty, and are easily collected. The pellets don't break up.
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I built one of these. Take a little metal $12 tool box from Can tire, fill the bottom with electrical putty, stand it on end, and either tape your targets to it or figure out how to hang them. Works like a Champ. You can buy pellet traps for about $25 which are actually cheaper than making them and work excellent but they are noisy,(hatsen makes some) !!!
 
An actual tiny metal pellet trap, I think it's like 10x10, and put a couple of sticks of duct seal inside it. Mine is <500fps and never makes it thru. Then maybe to be extra safe for the wall a sheet of plywood, and there's carpet clamped to it. Depending on the distance though you would have to try to miss at least the pellet trap, if not the target, which is like what? 2 inches?
Best thing is, if (so far I haven't) the duct seal get's really beaten up, just replace it, and good to go again.
 
i use old phone books crompressed and duct taped together i make a few stacks like this with phone books or old magazines put in a cardboard box behind the box a few thick sheets of ply wood to stop any missed shots

i use this for more then just pellet guns i use it for .22lr this is only about 10 yards in my basement but it works just fine in the dead cold of winter
 
Stuff a large, plywood box with crumpled plastic bags, or something, then tack, or staple a sheet of polyethylene, with targets taped to it, over the box. This keeps the 'chads' in the box. When the plastic cover is too perforated, just replace it.
 
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