Broke my pellet trap target

[PasadenaMike]

Yeah I bet it wasn't fun and can imagine the shock. If something like that happen to me, my wife would ban me from shooting, LOL.

Just say it was a bee sting.

 

[PasadenaMike]

Now my pellet traps are Amazon boxes packed tight with old clothes

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Now my pellet traps are Amazon boxes packed tight with old clothes

Them don't hurt my feelings as much if at all when there tore up or damaged ..lol

 

[coolsound]

Reinforcement arrived. 5/16 steel plate for existing trap and 1/4 plate for new target trap.

 

[coolsound]

Good as new and back in operation

5/16" steel plate backing and almost 3" of duct seal. Hopefully it won't go through again




This is what it looked like when it failed. The pellets dug a well to the wall of the trap and poke a hole. Will have to check it from time to time and plug the well hole with more duct seal.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

I never got why they use the same thin guage metal for the impact area . I guess cost and shipping weight reasons ?

 

[coolsound]

Second trap target built. 1/4" steel backing with 2.5" of duct seal.

 

[Ezana4CE]

@coolsound That's very nice looking. What I find helpful is to affix my targets in different places on the cardboard facing. I look at where the bullseyes will be sitting in relation to previous groups that I shot into the cardboard beneath previous targets. This gets me a little more wear out of the cardboard facing and easesthe overall stress on the trap making it less likely to shoot through the trap. When it get close to that point the sound of pellet impacts change when I'm stacking them. I do this with cloth-stuffed cardboard box traps that I take over 1000 .25 shots. I also shoot into both side of these traps. When one side is shot up, I flip it around, but the flipping the trap around isn't relevant to your application.