duct seal

[mcc1961]

What is the best way to clean pellets out of duct seal so u can reuse it?

[tpw]

the pellets will be deformed and not usable. dont even worry about it

[ezman604]

I believe he is talking about reusing the duct seal Tom. I use a sharp knife to kinda slice into it and pull the pellets out. You might try a metal comb also.
Happy Shooting!!!!
Dave
 

[tpw]

sorry, my bad. lol

[Daysailer]

I clean the pellets out with tweezers or small forceps after each target.
(i dont shoot magnum power)

I just came in from shooting a bit at one my small duct seal targets,
and because I know the trap was clean, I can only believe what  I found, because
I know the trap was fresh.

Was trying to get a good 20yard group with my HW30S bench rested, Williams Peep.
After 5 shots, the binoculars told me the 'wind' (?) was ruining my effort, already 1" sideways and 3/4" up and down....
So switched from RWS Exact Express domed  pellets and shot 3 RWS Miester 7.0gr WC's off-hand standing to finish up....  
Binoculars showed me only one new hole
I could only find 6 holes in the paper.  but 2 were slightly larger.

Of the five spread out holes from the bench rested domes, 2 of the off-hand WC's found the same places to land.
When tweezed out of the duct seal, both WC's were inside the skirts of the domes.  Not even a little bit off center.  

These kinds of finds are why I always clean out my trap after every target.  Never a
doubt about where the doubles are.... Usually my finds are less exciting, but my recycle lead box gets all my spent lead.

[cole5169]

Yup.  Tweezers here, too.  After every shooting session, for me.

Even for higher power guns, tweezers will still do the job, just takes a little more fishing around and tugging 

[PhantomF4E]

I put an aluminum plate behind my duct seal and layered two of the Home Depot bricks deep . I clean my trap about every thousand rounds or so. Never have had a ricochet, bounce back or anything of the kind. The lead fuses together in a nice little mass after a while. Still just as quiet as fresh duct seal. I guess it would cut the weight down a bit if I cleaned it more. You can if you want, but you really don't need to do it after every shoot.

[pjw]

 Has anybody tried clay instead of duct seal? I wonder if it would be cheaper.

[Mo.sniper342]

I just sit down with some colds ones at hand and tear it apart and dig em out then reform my duct seal. I throw my used pellts in a buckt then melt em down ands make  decoy wieghts or fishing sinkers