AusVarmint

I'm thinking of building a pellet trap out of wood with an angled steel plate in the back and a clipboard clip on the front for mounting printed targets but then I thought, stuff it, i'll just buy one

Any recommendations? Any around with an opening the size of an A4 sheet of paper?

Also, the yanks seem to spread some "ballistic" putty in the back to stop them making too much noise, is this stuff sold over here, or is there an equivalent I can get from a hardware store?

cheers

Greg

Ballistic putty is sold over here as plumbers putty, apparently.

What's wrong with a cardboard box full of old newspapers?
Cheap and recyclable.

I've built my own pellet trap of 3mm plate, angled at 45 degrees so the pills go into the ground, but the cardboard box gets used heaps more, I must have put 1000 pills into it now, and replaced the paper once.

I also collected the used pellets to recycle into cast bullets later, tedious but worth it.

Chrispy

Here's one I made a while back from scrap - the back is 2mm steel, and does make a little noise when hit - a sheet of old lead would soon fix that.



Takes some little silhouettes too.

yup, i was thinking of this too.
Didn't really want to buy one and now the cardboard box sounds ideal to me.
Thanks for letting me know that it works fine.

No noise with this carpet trap. I use it for my FWB 300s indoors. It will handle the Excalibre 22 when I tighten down the nuts. Best to use new off cuts which I get free from the local floor cover shop.

daisy

Nice traps guys!

fantastic.

Any more cheap/free trap ideas?
I just used to use chipboard but I was in the UK where 12 ft/lbs wouldn't go through too much.

I use a carboard box stuffed with six towels. Good for indoors and outdoors. Indoors with the air pistol so gentle that you can even recycle the pellets through the resizer. (Oops sorry Lewis, not good for sales)
Outdoors Same box sitting inside an old steel tool chest to catch any that the R9 push through

daisy wrote:No noise with this carpet trap. I use it for my FWB 300s indoors. It will handle the Excalibre 22 when I tighten down the nuts. Best to use new off cuts which I get free from the local floor cover shop.

daisy

awesome, that looks similar to how my compound bow target is made, except it uses thin layers of dense foam...

fenring wrote:Here's one I made a while back from scrap - the back is 2mm steel, and does make a little noise when hit - a sheet of old lead would soon fix that.



Takes some little silhouettes too.

thats what I had in mind, except made of hardwood instead of steel tubing... I like the silhouette idea!


keep em coming guys!

Spinners I made for the .22 - would work for air rifles too.




And the big plate I can hang off it.



Mind you, even mild .44 magnum loads sometimes knock the whole thing over - and one hit with my .30 cal Nagant sent it flying - needs to be pegged into the ground, LOL.