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My new cheap pellet trap

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Topic: My new cheap pellet trap

Posted By: NoobJ
Subject: My new cheap pellet trap
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2025 at 11:58pm

TL;DR

Recently got a box filled with cloth as pellet trap. ~200 pellet in and looking good.

Longer version:

I have a small 10 meter setup at home for practicing with my HW97k (177).

I have been using a box filled with wood mulch for the pallet trap since beginning but always looking for some rubber mulch which I believe more reliable and quieter. Couldn't find any tho.

Until recently I got some old cloths from kids for painting job (too dirty or too damaged to give away or donate), I found they could perfectly firmly fill up a big cardboard box from PnS and seemed to be not bad as pellet trap and gave it a go.

Now it has been a few weeks and about 200 pellet in and looks pretty promising. Much quieter than the wood mulch. I hope it is easy to maintain - just take the clothes to another box when the front cant hold paper anymore. Can hear some pellets on the bottom of the box.

Wonder if anyone tried this method before.

Btw, I still got the box of mulch on the back of the cloth trap and 15mm wood board and a 2.5mm steel panel on the back ;)

Can post some pics when it is working.

Replies:

Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025 at 8:52am

Sounds good. I really need to do that too.

I guess you could in theory shake out the lead later.

Posted By: KiwiTR6
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025 at 5:44pm

I made one a while back before I got around to making a 'proper' trap. Very simple to build and it worked very well, but I needed to replace the front portion with another layer as it was quickly shot to pieces allowing the garments to spill out.

There were be pockets of pellets that fell out when I dismantled it, but a large portion of them were well entangled in the cloth and I felt it wasn't worth the time to recover them.

Very effective, quiet and cheap.

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Posted By: Mav00
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2025 at 6:38pm

I have a 25m range at home and I use 6 layers of carpet as a pellet stop. Also, plasticine works well.

Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2025 at 1:43pm

Grab some thick ply, and old window louver frame,the side with the handel. Some of that plasticine.
Cut the ply to approx size of louver glass,router or chizel out the central area 3/4 way through pack in plasticine.
Screw the louver frame to a wood base, fit the ply/plasticine into the loover.
You now have a turnable target backing.
I used a little pully and couple pieces string to turn it manually. Tie both strings to the handel. One should be fine to just pull one way, the other will need the pully, or even a nail to pass the string through in the opposite direction.
I used this set up for a shooting range i had in a wool shed for the local kids 30 odd years ago. You could set up to run with a motor but to complex for what i wanted.
So i put three targets per louver frame and turned it 3sec before pulling back.
Fantastic for practicing snap shots. Down side is you need a string puller.
Also made plasticine magpies then get the kids to shoot them. They really are visual when impacted, but that wasnt the point, if the kids shot and wounded it, left a very obvious wound site, id stand there for a couple of seconds and if the kids weren't reloading for a follow up shot, they would get a sudden "what are doing thats a wounded animal get that gun loaded and kill it!!"
Brought the whole of kaiwaka and wellsford plasticine supply that week.
Great stuff plasticine.
A couple of pullies on the same ply set up, side ways this time, and a rope runing across a set distance, and you have a running target. Again string pulled for my set up, but an down wards angle and a peg holding it at top with string attached and i could pull the peg away and it would start moving.
These were at about 12m i guess, so on a 25m meter range would be awsome.

Posted By: Mintie
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025 at 2:02pm

I often fill reusable shopping bags chocka with old rags etc, then put that inside a wooden box with a bulldog clip to hold the paper target in front of the bag o rags. I find the reusable bags tend to last longer than a cardboard box and when they do start to deteriorate you just put it all inside another bag and get back to shooting. Super quiet and holds up to high power just fine.