Go to tractor supply or feed store. Rubber horse stall mat is usually 4 x 6 foot 3/4 or 1 inch thick around $75. Cut to desired size with razor knife. Been using them for years
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Anything better than duct seal for silent trap?
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Cut up sections of rubber horse mat, it’s 5/8” hard rubber and line the inside of your trap.
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My rubber mulch bucket set ups have lasted awhile. Just yesterday I timed how long it would take to dump out the mulch, sift out most of the pellets, and dump the cleaned mulch back into the bucket after I change out the screen and aluminum shield inside the bucket to hold the mulch back, and it took me an hour to do 3 buckets.
I go thru around 15-18 fx high capacity mags and then it’s time to clean out the mulch and replace the shield. Here are a couple of pics of my set up at 55 yards out my front lawn-
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Others have said it and it seems your not open to the idea but rubber mulch would be your best bet for the quietest pellet trap. Would take some redesign of your current traps to contain the mulch but if you want quiet it's probably the best and the least maintenance. Only thing I hear shooting 1025 fps pellet at 20 yards is the pellet hitting the cardboard target. One only needs 4 inches of mulch to stop a pellet, I've heard of guys shooting 9mm and 45's into less then 8 inches of mulch. The lead dust is also greatly reduced in rubber mulch due to the pellets remaining mostly intact instead of splattering.
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Actually on Feb 11th I wrote: "I am open to the rubber mulch but how would you keep in place over such a large surface?"
If you have any ideas I'm all ears.
Thanks,
Dave
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Another vote here for rubber mulch. I've seen pellets come out looking like they weren't even shot. Most of my airguns are on the lower fps side though.
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There is rubber mulch behind the 1" thick polyethylene foam. It is the same stuff as pool noodles or shipping foam from Pyramyd Air. I bought a couple of sheets off of ebay.
Understanding that anything is destroyed as pellets pass through, this works pretty good for a few hundred pellets at a time.
Understanding that anything is destroyed as pellets pass through, this works pretty good for a few hundred pellets at a time.
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You can use rubber mulch but you'd have to make a wooden box a few inches thick to contain it within your trap. My trap is a wooden box with a front of cardboard filled with rubber mulch. I have to replace the cardboard sometimes because it gets too big a hole in it. It just staples in place. It could be a little difficult if those traps can't be laid on their backs for cardboard replacement. If they can, the sides of the box will take hits too and need replaced periodically but it should work fine.
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This is how I do it.
Very quiet and super easy to remove the old used lead.
I added a piece of aluminum from an old hurricane shutter I had around to improve on the old one
https://youtu.be/9on2Bf9q2A0
Very quiet and super easy to remove the old used lead.
I added a piece of aluminum from an old hurricane shutter I had around to improve on the old one
https://youtu.be/9on2Bf9q2A0
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That is what I do too, hard to beat
last one is a cooler filled with old clothes but I've done many different variations,....works great, very quite and easy to get your lead
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Part of designing a trap that’ll meet the requirements of sound deadening and strength, and planning convenience items such as media recycle methods, making it completely weatherproof, making it portable, and at the same time top it off with some visual appeal takes some skill. Not just hand skills but skills in looking far enough ahead.
This is one of those things where, “if it was easy anyone could do it”.
pellet trap design will never go away as a subject matter in an airgun forum. There’s always a better way.
This is one of those things where, “if it was easy anyone could do it”.
pellet trap design will never go away as a subject matter in an airgun forum. There’s always a better way.
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I also went with the rubber mulch in a bucket. Works great. I just change the lid every now and then. I also use the mulch bag under the lid to keep anything from falling out if the hole gets to big.
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I like duct seal in the bottom if a .50 caliber ammo can. Compact and sorta camouflaged with the OD color. Use magnets to hold targets.
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if you can find piece of truck tire retread on the road, it works much better than the rubber horse stall mat.
trouble to cut it but works really well.
trouble to cut it but works really well.
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