Has anyone made a bullet trap for High Power Rifles

[brstevns]

Has anyone made a bullet trap that can stop high powered rifles cartridges. 308 win, 30-06, 270 win, 45/70 etc. Looking for building plans or any thoughts on design.

[winelover]

Used a black plastic 55 gallon chemical barrel, that fell of a trunk, filled with sand and newspapers to stop everything up to and including 338 Win Mag's. I built a cradle for it and laid it on it's side with an access window / door on top. Used pop rivets to install hinges. Binder clips were also fastened to the barrel lid with pop rivets to hold targets. Held up very well over the years, the plastic was sort of self sealing. Bullet holes appeared to be about 22 caliber but the smallest rifle I shot was 243 Winchester. Only a few bullets exited and those that did seemed to be at oblique angles. When I gave up the lease on the property, I dismantled it and recovered quite a bit of lead to recycle into more Boolets.

Winelover

[Jeffrey]

I remember reading about this design years ago.

http://www.snailtraps.com/index.php

Jeffrey

[brstevns]

I like both of these ideas. My cousin works at a metal shop and was wondering about making one from 1/2 to 3/4 boil plate?

[thebigmac]

[smilie=s: http://www.snailtraps.com/index.php

This is the best trap going. Jeffrey's idea is a link to Savage Arms. Your friend could roll a piece of plate into this configuration. Looks like it can be light enough to move by one person... Look into it, you're like it. bigmac

[m1g]

Try these. They are in the stickies under Bullet trap ideas for recycling lead.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=26627&page=8

post #364 and

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=26627&page=4

post #455. Thinking of trying these myself. Hope this helps.

[Von Gruff]

Try these. They are in the stickies under Bullet trap ideas for recycling lead.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=26627&page=8

post #364 and

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=26627&page=4

http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/VonGruff/boolittrap.jpg

http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/VonGruff/boolittrapplans.jpg

post #455. Thinking of trying these myself. Hope this helps.
That post 455 looks to be a good dessign.
For a lighter weight model...................
I would think that an itial height of 12 inches should be suficient and if the start width was down to 12 inches as well then the length of the sides would similarily be shortened. I mean who cant hit a 1 foot square target. Might make it managable as a one man transportable to the range and back.

Von Gruff.

[m1g]

Looks to be the perfect thing for me. Gotta buy the 1/2" steel tubing from the scrap yard tho. My son looked up 4" dia. in the McMaster catalog for me (what I was gonna use) and it was going for like $138.00 U.S. per foot for this stuff new, Whew!!!!

[Von Gruff]

Scrap yards are your friend.

Von Gruff.

[gabe123]

Thanks for posting that link Jeffery, for a while there I thought I was losing my mind.
I remember seeing that trap set up quite a few years ago at the NRA annual meeting in Reno. I could not remember who made it and had almost convinced myself that I had dreamed it up.[smilie=6:

[shotman]

the plactic drum is what I used for years . in basement
I took reg plastic sheeting and made about 10 wraps inside and filled with sand . it will last for years and not leak
Had a 1/4in steel lid with a 12in block on top . could mine it every so offen. It will stop any AP or 50 bmg
Oh you will only shoot a 50 BMG ONCE in the basement

[Naphtali]

I posited a similar query earlier this year. My least expensive trap, one from which I can reclaim lead, is a chunk of tree trunk on a dolly or laid in the dirt end-on. Twelve inches deep by 24 inches in diameter lasts I-don't-yet-know-how-long.

Hope this helps.

[winelover]

I posited a similar query earlier this year. My least expensive trap, one from which I can reclaim lead, is a chunk of tree trunk on a dolly or laid in the dirt end-on. Twelve inches deep by 24 inches in diameter lasts I-don't-yet-know-how-long.

Hope this helps.

That was my first boolet trap. Lasted a couple of years until it split. Recovered what I could then wood went off to the campfire and got some more lead out of the ashes.

Winelover

[Lloyd Smale]

ive got a simular trap to van gruffs but mine was made from 3/8 in boiler plate which is very hard steel and rifle bullets have gone through it. It stops most of them though. If i want to shoot a centerfire rifle and want to stop the bullet i take a 5 gallon plastic pail with a lid on it. I fill the pail with sand and take the lid and from the back side srew 4 sheet metal screws in it so there poking out the top and use them to peg a target to. Personaly dont care much about captureing rifle bullets. There mostly soft alloy and all the copper jacket **** makes them a job to smelt. Plus i probably only shoot a 1000 a year at paper targets.