Great not so little bullet trap

[MrP]

Well if you are shooting a lot and the only thing your neighbors are complaining about is the sound of the bullet hitting your trap, I would say you are a pretty courteous and quiet shooter. At least compared to some of the neighbors that I have had in the past. But yeah, who wants to listen to the guy next door hitting a piece of metal all day

 

[MrP]

This trap actually actually generates a fair amount of dust especially if shooting at higher speed. My Rex p was making very little dust, but there is lots of very fine dust after a session with my 65-75 fpe .25 airforce.

Here is a place where you can see the leaves underneath the trap covered with it. I now have all of the debris collecting in a container.

Will have to handle the debris from this with caution for sure.

 

[HogKiller]

I just received the smaller version. Very solid. Sadly there isn't something on the hole to catch the lead. My .25 pellets are all but vaporized. Yeah, annoyingly loud, ordered some 1/8" neoprene adhesive sheets to put on the outside to dampen the ringing. I'm thinking some ribs attached to the outside might dampen the sound a bunch. If the sheets don't do the trick I've got one more thing to try, pack it with rubber mulch, thinking of bonding it together with some FlexSeal. I'm trying to get something that I can mount on the farthest point I can shoot and leave it, rain or shine...as if it rains in CA but it may....some time. Ok, I got off my butt and read the previous comments I'd missed so sorry for the same ol' thing.

 

[Ezana4CE]

@MrP Thanks for the photos. Someone else posted about a trap like this recently and I had no concept of this design. I like it. In my experience regular steel traps with the slopes back cause projectiles to basically explode upon impact creating a lot of dust. This is cool.

 

[MrP]

I’m getting a fair amount of dust and pellets are shattering in this as well although not as much. My higher caliber rounds hold up very nicely though. I agree with hogkiller and was surprised that there was nothing to catch the lead but I think the idea is that it drops out into a bucket or whatever you put underneath that opening.

 

[Wjs2]

nice.