A huge difference in frag-size of the little pill Harry, more recoverable lead. (some of you Yankies got pretty good brains!)
I didn't think of that when I built mine, all I was concerned about was blocking the frags from bouncing back out of the tube.
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thanks for reposting the pic,looks great to meOriginally Posted by OS OK
That's too bad Harry...I was looking forward to the thread. A great idea...simple to build & now nobody will benefit from Harry's expertise because of a few who soured the thread!
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Looking for a Hensly &Gibbs #258 any thing from a two cavity to a 10cavityI found a new one from a member here
Charlie one of the members sent this design back in my build thread. This is a really good design, wished we both saw this before we built ours. This is one of those things you just look at what others have done and maybe put your own twist on it seeing as there are no plans on this. This would have been so easy to at the start!!
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HARRY, it looks like that design would generate the least amount of tiny slivers & dust.
Not much chance of me pulling mine and remodeling it, I have a little over a ton of various leads and if I loose a small percentage each recycle, it'll outlast me.
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The indoor range I shoot on has angled plates that do what these funnels-into a tube do. Same results; lots of powder. The other indoor range I've used has very large pieces of conveyor belting (6'x8') enclosing crumb rubber. The range officer told us that the lead gathers in chunks of considerable size, with not much dust.
Before I built the steel trap I used a 55 gallon barrel, it'll catch rifle or pistol...I used the crumb type (recycled) rubber in it, it's 2/3's full of that stuff...
The only problem is the clean-out is a lot of work, my brother Manny comes over and helps and it takes a little over an hour or so...
The benefit to the rubber mulch is that there is no powdered lead or small thin fragments, here's a clean-up after about 2 months...
Glad you mentioned this...I may cut a piece of 'stall mat' and see about fitting it to my steel catcher?
A mat would knock off a lot of speed & energy before it hits the steel.
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Small deflector makes a lot of sense. I’m going to have a local welder make one, metalworking is not in my wheelhouse!
excellent design and build quality. I know it would be impossible to ever to recover bullets from the mountain behind my house unless I had something like that or a big sand pile but it would be impossible to get a dump truck to where my mountain backstop is.
I put together a drum full of rubber mulch, but I wish I'd had the foresight to put it on wheels!
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