Ideas on cheap boolit trap.

[rmatchell]

I have been looking at the heavy rubber horse stall mats to use in a boolit trap. I wish I had the money for heavy steel to build a trap but I'll find a way to make due. My Idea is to build a trap out of plywood. A box 4' wide about 3' high and four layers thick with a heavy rubber horse stall mat on the inside. I would make the back wall between 45 to 35 degrees to deflect into a sand pit. Now I would only be shooting slow lead nothing jacketed or riffle. Anybody have any thoughts or advice.

[largom]

Why not just build the box and fill it with dirt or sand? Easy to sift latter and recover your boolits for remelting. Unless you have to take your trap somewhere else to shoot.

Larry

[jmorris]

574 posts on the subject of bullet traps. Over 126,000 views, might as well add one more.

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

[jmorris]

574 posts on the subject of bullet traps. Over 126,000 views, might as well add one more.

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

[Bill*]

That's 2 more! :groner:

[bob208]

get old tires. stack them up and fill with sand. you can sift out the lead when you need it.

[wmitty]

Currently using oak trunk section of tree - 30" diameter by 20" in length. Shooting into one end has stopped everything up to 350 gr .375 loads. Will split it with wedges and burn this winter to recover alloy.

I am looking at an 18" diameter 90 degree ell section of schedule 40 pipe. Wall thickness is about 7/16" and should stop boolits I believe.

[-06]

You can pick up a 4'X4' sheet of scrap metal 1/2" or better and make a nice trap. Back it with heavy Oak timbers and about a foot of sand below. Easy to use a pooper scooper to recover your Pb. Scrap steel is 10-12 cents per # so for 40-60 dollars you can have a nice deflector.