nowhere wrote:
leadslinger wrote:
nowhere wrote:
Duct seal isn't cheap - but I built my pellet trap over a decade ago and I'm still using the same duct seal that I first lined it with back then. Still have two sealed bricks of it too!
Oh I only use duct seal. Been using my stuff for over 5 years. This post was in response of another member saying that clay is a good alternative to duct seal. I wanted to test that he is wrong. I'm not a fan of make shift or cobbled together pellet traps. After seeing what damage happens in an apartment when you miss, or it fails.
I made a couple of holes in the wall of my "shooting gallery" (aka the big, long room over the garage) from the days before I made myself a good, big pellet trap, so I know what you mean! Non-PAL guns and in my case they didn't quite penetrate the drywall but still... I've moved all my shooting down to the basement crawlspace since then. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter, quiet and with thick concrete walls backed by the Earth all around me.
I built my trap based on the one that Archer Airguns used to sell. I would have bought one of theirs but they didn't sell outside the US so I had to break out the tablesaw and get working. I don't have a router so in order to hold the clipboard target-holder I made the functional equivalent of the grooves they used for that purpose using four pieces of half inch by half inch wood attached to the sides.
Well my basement is now concrete in the house I bought. So if I miss, oh well. But the apartment, the wife put a pellet into the wall, because of the heavy trigger on the buckmark, and I put a hole thru the wall, with a full power phantom, it was zeroed at a different range, and decided to shoot it at 20ft. Well shot over the at the time, 8x11 shooting box I had at 25ft. Actually twice it hit the lip of the box and richoet, I lucky to not hit the medicine cabinet and hit wood. But 3rd time I wasn't lucky.
These were older apartment, that just had regular house hold divider walls. So why I don't recommend shooting in apartments.