Hello Guys & Gals,
Being the environmentally conscious fellow I am, I wanted to create a simple, portable, inexpensive and yet highly effective pellet trap that could be used indoors and out. A trip to Home Depot and a wallet $15.00 lighter did the trick.
I purchased one bag of black rubber mulch and a cheap plastic container w/lid. This combined with a chunk of corrugated plastic sheet and a bit of masking tape formed the basis for the trap. Please keep in mind this is all experimental. Result? Works like a charm, stopping even .25 calibre pellets at high velocity from my Hatsan B65SB. I must have pumped 500 pellets into it, not a one making it all the way through to the backside of the box. To retrieve the spent lead, I simply dumped the contents out into a second box with a piece of 1/4" chicken wire in between -a little shake and all the smallish rubber fragments /pellets filter out, to be disposed of in an environmentally sound way (I melt down the pellets in a solder pot used at my place of employment). Still working on an effective way to filter rubber bits from pellets, but I'll eventually McGyver something.
Now that this set up proves to work well, I've got some additional ideas to apply in future iterations. The corrugated plastic sheet is sort of self healing, which keeps the rubber mulch from falling through holes created by shot groups however, it does eventually fall apart and small bits of plastic end up mixed in with the pellets and rubber. I'm thinking perhaps some vinyl floor runner material or something like that might work better. More experimentation is in order. Members thoughts and suggestions are certainly welcome!
Cheers!
Avianmanor
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