Gun Cabinet/Indoor Pellet Trap Build

[BriarpatchMtn]

Got a 10 meter Crosman Challenger Pro recently so needed to make an indoor pellet trap, plus getting to many guns and all else that accumulates once you start down the PCP rabbit hole. (It's to shallow for my big bore though.)
Live in a small family fatm house built in 1903 so space is limited. But I can just barely get 10yds from one room to the next upstairs. (Close enough to 10 meters for me.)
Anyway I've built this out of old weathered lumber from a porch I had to tear out a few year back. Still a little more to do. A silent, soft trap will be above the metal one for BB's. And if the wife gets annoyed by the metal trap on her night's off. Also planning to build some doors when I find just the right looking pieces of rusty tin barn roofing.
Metal trap is designed to direct the pellets into the drawer beneath it. Tested with my 22 break barrel at about 10 feet and works perfectly. Cardboard across the front to pin a target on and no debris will kicks back out.
The drawer knobs are a woodie type of fungus that grows on a specific type of dead tree in my area of the SW Virginia Appalachians.
Since this is made of scrap materials I've only got around $50 in it. (Biggest expense was replacing a lost router bit.)

 

[imtrigerhapy]

I love the reclaimed wood look and the drawer pulls are epic. Awesome job looks great. You should be proud of the gun cabinet. The pellet trap pretty cool too

 

[BriarpatchMtn]

I love the reclaimed wood look and the drawer pulls are epic. Awesome job looks great. You should be proud of the gun cabinet. The pellet trap pretty cool too

This is 60+ year old, 1x6 saw milled Red Oak. Wood is so hard can't drive a nail in it without drilling a pilot hole. What I like about using reclaimed wood is there's no finishing work, and precision jointer isn't required. Just slapping it together as is, and close enough, just adds to the rustic look. This thing is so heavy though that it will never come back down the stairs except in pieces as I took it up.
The drawer knobs were actually a last minute inspiration. They really do set the whole thing off. They'll definitely be worked into future projects.
I love to use reclaimed materials, besides the look, I'm drawn to it being "Free".

 

[imtrigerhapy]

I dabble in woodworking as well. Enough that i bought a sawmill. The only thing better than useing reclaimed is your own logs from your own property. The beauty hidden in natural grown trees can be spectacular. The best part of reclaimed and home sawn wood is that mistaked become alot cheaper and ideas are alot easier to materialize into projects if costs are low.

 

[BriarpatchMtn]

I dabble in woodworking as well. Enough that i bought a sawmill. The only thing better than useing reclaimed is your own logs from your own property. The beauty hidden in natural grown trees can be spectacular. The best part of reclaimed and home sawn wood is that mistaked become alot cheaper and ideas are alot easier to materialize into projects if costs are low.

65 acres and 3/4 of my property is so steep timber isn't accessible. Great deer hunting though so long as they don't go down in the wrong place. 3 hours getting large 8 pointer out last year. Dropped after about 20yds then kicked and slid 50yds down side mountain and then over a 20ft rock ledge.
My shop is really small so no place to store materials and work. I'd make and sell stuff like this if only I had a real place to work. Had to cut all this in the building then assemble it upstairs because not enough room for me, tools, and it in the building. Plywood for the back had to cut outside on sawhorses. It's been a whole lot of walking to say the least. Wife thinks I'm nuts.