I was running some errands today and figured I try to look for some rubber mulch while I was out and about. Tried Home Depot, Lowes, and Walmart.....none of these stores had them. Looks like I'll have to call around and dig a little deeper. Any suggestions?
Quote from: xraycer on April 23, 2017, 01:01:24 AMI was running some errands today and figured I try to look for some rubber mulch while I was out and about. Tried Home Depot, Lowes, and Walmart.....none of these stores had them. Looks like I'll have to call around and dig a little deeper. Any suggestions?Aldi had it on sale last week for $4.99 a bag. They might still be on sale. I made a trap this weekend with it. It's heavier than I thought it would be, but it works great.
Really? I love that store. They get some of the oddest things. You'd just never know with them
I have one of the Champion .22 rimfire traps in my basement. They stop the pellets all right, but they don't really trap it. I'm finding pellet fragments as much as 7 yards back from it, and there's a fine coating of lead dust on the floor in front of it. These are really outdoor traps. The pellets just pretty much explode when they hit it. It's also pretty loud.My rubber mulch trap didn't have that problem. I just filled up a cardboard box with the mulch (didn't pack it down) and shot into that. But shooting through the top of a plastic tote would be better. I'm going back to my mulch trap, as soon as I get around to cleaning up the lead from my Champion trap. I'll save the Champion trap for when I go to the outdoor range, I guess.About the rubber mulch: the first bag I bought was not rubber at all, despite how it was labeled. So check carefully before you buy it. It worked OK, but of course blew apart faster and I brought a bunch of tiny bugs into my house. I wound up buying three bags from a buddy who'd called around various Home Depots to find real rubber stuff. It costs twice as much as falsely-advertised "rubber" mulch.Also, one thing to note: It IS good at stopping pellets; better than you'd think possible, for its weight. BUT... it doesn't last forever. Pellets will blow the big pieces into small pieces, so you will need to refresh it now and then.It's harder to recover lead from than the Champion trap (except the fragments that make it back out of the trap) but at least the lead is mostly pellet-shaped, instead of lead dust and tiny fragments, which is probably less safe re. inhaling while cleaning up.