Air Arms Owners Club

I'm looking for 7 inexpensive 17cm pellet traps for our Scout campsite. They need to be the flat type, not the funnel type. I will be reinforcing the target holding slots with a 20mm or so angle iron frame to prevent the inevitable stray pellets closing them up. We shoot from 10m to 15m.

I bought a cheap one from ebay, but the quality was a little suspect. I'm not sure the 1mm back plate will last too long.

Any suggestions where to look?

A bit of info that may help.

On our club's 10mtr range we have 1/4" thick steel plates behind the target holders and they get bent eventually. We hammer it back probably around once per year. Card holders obviously have to be capable of taking the odd hit but the actual backstop has to be really substantial.

ATB
Ray.

Bosun wrote:I'm looking for 7 inexpensive 17cm pellet traps for our Scout campsite. They need to be the flat type, not the funnel type. I will be reinforcing the target holding slots with a 20mm or so angle iron frame to prevent the inevitable stray pellets closing them up. We shoot from 10m to 15m.

I bought a cheap one from ebay, but the quality was a little suspect. I'm not sure the 1mm back plate will last too long.

Any suggestions where to look?

Have a look here and i'll help your scout group out at favourable rates .

http://www.bisley-uk.com/products.php?c=623

Good man .....

Many thanks,

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You could always fit some ply to the backstops

BBF

Mmmm? I won't use plywood because it's too compliant. It just might work with a full powered Air Rifle, because the pellets will probably penetrate and stay put. Pellets fired from lower powered Air Rifles and Pistols are likely to rebound back towards the shooter.

Back to the pellet trap I bought via ebay. I tried it out last night and it was absolutely useless, dangerous in fact. At 15m, with my 0.177 ProSport (10.6ftlb), the back plate distorted and became perforated after only 30 shots. Not only that, but several pellets hit the back plate and came back out through the target! The back plate was only 1.6mm thick, despite being listed by the vendor as being "heavy gauge steel". Hardly!

Back to the vendor and ebay then.