Archery target instead of pellet trap.

[jsk68]

I posted this in another thread but wanted to see if anyone else has or is using one, I picked mine up about a week ago and so far it's been working great.

They seem to be cheaper locally than online mine was $40.
I plan on cutting a piece of plywood the same size or run a couple screws through and old pc side panel and attach it to the back to be safe but so far nothing has made it past the halfway mark that I can tell.

They also make a much sturdier crossbow version.

[anti-squirrel]

Convenient for lower power smallbore airguns. 

I'm not sure how those would hold up over time.  I wouldn't use one personally on account of my .25s and both big-bores- which would likely stop it for a few shots but would get worn out fast.  I also recall Manny mentioning using his air-bow (Evanix Rex) 1 shot on his archery bag trap and it went clean through.  There's a big difference between a featherweight bolt out of a crossbow or recurve/long bow versus an airbow shooting in excess of 500 FPS- I think he said his Rex was shooting ~ 575 FPS.

I have a trap that ran about $24 total- steel washing machine chassis (the white outer "box") cut into square back over scrap 2x6 treated frame in the form of a 12" deep 3 foot by 3 foot cube, mesh front, filled with on-sale rubber mulch.  It will stop 9mm slugs- from both my big-bores and my SCCY, my wife's 380, and her 9mm Mossberg.  I also have a 12x12 trap 24" long stuff with rubber mulch that stopped +P+ 9mm, 40, 41, and 357mag rounds.  The added bonus of the rubber mulch traps is cleaning spent lead out- you can dump into a tote bin filled with water.  Lead sinks, the rubber mulch floats.  Not knocking what you're using, but the rubber mulch traps are dirt cheap (just build a box and stuff it!), endlessly reusable, and you can reclaim ALL the lead.

[jsk68]

Actually I live out in the country I can go 1/2 mile and shoot anything I want, the reason I bought this was for indoor shooting c02 mostly, the clack from a metal trap is annoying so I was using a cut down 2x12 that worked well until it got so filled up with pellets they started ricocheting every other shot.

This target specifically states not for use with crossbows they have a stouter version for that, I figure with a piece of plywood or metal panel attached to the back nothings getting through it or ricocheting no matter how worn out it gets.

fwiw this is made from horizontally stacked and compressed sheets of 1/8in. foam not shredded rubber.

Anyway it was just an idea I thought I'd try out and figured I wouldn't be the first one to try it.

[mobilemail]

It should stand up for quite a while with CO2…if it isn’t a kind of material that starts flinging stuff back at you.

[tennx]

Its all about what works for ya …aint it….I have 2 champion 22 target boxes…one in the house stuffed with rubber mulch for the dogs….and one outside empty….good luck

[Frank in Fairfield]

Awhile ago in Sacramento there was a very large archery shop that also had an indoor 10 yard range.
The target butts were large pallets of compressed cardboard.
If I remember correctly one or two nights a week they had indoor matches.
On other nights they would use those same target butts for 10m air rifle and pistol matches.
The cardboard worked very well..
The straps they use on large trucks to hold cargo can be used to compress the cardboard.
Tons of cardboard is sometimes available at the wear house stores.

[buellm2]

I use a cardboard box stuffed with layers of more cardboard.  I replace the inside layers of  cardboard after it gets shot up, many thousands of .177 pellets later.   The boxes and cardboard are free and the pellets are easily separated.  I put a cookie sheet behind the box but no pellet has ever penetrated the cardboard.    This is after 6-8000 shots.