Home made shooting stand for indoor shooting

[chris93]

Hi,

I bought an uramex glock 17 gen 5 177 pellet blowback pistol that shoots at 370 FPS and an uramex ruger 10/22 177 pellet gun that shoots at 450 FPS.

I was thinking about making a pellet trap that's kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mEcHl ... tersVermin

I would use a much larger plastic box (70 cm by 50 cm by 50 cm) and fill it entirely with rubber mulch, then put 4 4 by 8 foot OSB plywood sheets (with 2 on each side) behind it so I get about 1.5 inches of plywood to stop stray pellets.

My goal with this is to shoot indoors, at a range of about 5-5.5 meters, without causing harm to my walls.

What do you all think of this? Would 1.5 inches of OSB plywood stop stray pellets shooting from my two guns? Would this trap be enough to absorb the energy going in?

I appreciate all feedback.

Thanks!

[Rob27]

Hi Chris.
Welcome to the forum.
Good idea to add the plywood backstop until you are more confident.
That much plywood will definitely stop the pellets from those guns. I use a different version of that pellet trap - just a heavy cardboard box with 2 bags of rubber mulch in it.
Please make sure that you and anyone else in the room are wearing eye protection. I find that lower speed pellets like from your pistol ricochet much more especially from a hard surface like plywood.
Happy and safe shooting!
Rob27

[lawrence]

Hi,

I bought an uramex glock 17 gen 5 177 pellet blowback pistol that shoots at 370 FPS and an uramex ruger 10/22 177 pellet gun that shoots at 450 FPS.

I was thinking about making a pellet trap that's kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mEcHl ... tersVermin

I would use a much larger plastic box (70 cm by 50 cm by 50 cm) and fill it entirely with rubber mulch, then put 4 4 by 8 foot OSB plywood sheets (with 2 on each side) behind it so I get about 1.5 inches of plywood to stop stray pellets.

My goal with this is to shoot indoors, at a range of about 5-5.5 meters, without causing harm to my walls.

What do you all think of this? Would 1.5 inches of OSB plywood stop stray pellets shooting from my two guns? Would this trap be enough to absorb the energy going in?

I appreciate all feedback.

Thanks!

Hmmmm.....you have definitely inspired me to make one, I just did not think about that before reading your post.........

[NovaNewfie]

Hi,

I bought an uramex glock 17 gen 5 177 pellet blowback pistol that shoots at 370 FPS and an uramex ruger 10/22 177 pellet gun that shoots at 450 FPS.

I was thinking about making a pellet trap that's kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63mEcHl ... tersVermin

I would use a much larger plastic box (70 cm by 50 cm by 50 cm) and fill it entirely with rubber mulch, then put 4 4 by 8 foot OSB plywood sheets (with 2 on each side) behind it so I get about 1.5 inches of plywood to stop stray pellets.

My goal with this is to shoot indoors, at a range of about 5-5.5 meters, without causing harm to my walls.

What do you all think of this? Would 1.5 inches of OSB plywood stop stray pellets shooting from my two guns? Would this trap be enough to absorb the energy going in?

I appreciate all feedback.

Thanks!

I have made a couple plywood pellet traps that I lined with rubber and filled with bags of rubber bands I had on hand.

For less than 500 fps guns I don't think plywood would make a good backstop as they would ricochet. At that speed you could likely get away with hanging a couple heavy blankets 6 inches from the wall, the pellets may tear the blankets but wouldn't ricochet.
A cardboard box filled with crumpled paper or cardboard with a piece of plywood in back of it will work fine for a pellet trap. You could add a towel or piece of carpet inside the box to lessen shoot through.

[Ironman]

Hi,

What do you all think of this? Would 1.5 inches of OSB plywood stop stray pellets shooting from my two guns? Would this trap be enough to absorb the energy going in?

I appreciate all feedback.

Thanks!

Plywood is a boomerang for low velocity pellets, not a good idea.
I suggest making a pellet trap that utilizes the ricochet effect. Make a box of 1/8" plate with a sloping back at about 20 degrees with a reservoir at the bottom. Attach cardboard to the front and hang your target. When the pellet hits the target and through to the sloping back plate it ricochet down into the 2-3" deep box at the bottom. I shoot indoors all winter into my trap like this, and last week I melted down 3.5 lb of lead scooped out of the reservoir box. I have never had a pellet from my.357 ever escape the pellet trap.

[Cookiez009]

That is pretty awesome. I think I need to make me one of those.