DIY Pellet Trap

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[DaveInOroValley]

Saw a cool DIY trap very inexpensive.

Start with any 5 gallon bucket you have laying around, one bag of rubber mulch 7-8 dollars at Home Depot, dump the mulch in the bucket, cut out a circle of cardboard using the bucket opening as a template, push the cardboard circle into the mouth of the bucket to hold the mulch from moving, there you go.

[Fastattack]

Won't pellets eventually cut through the wire mesh? Maybe not a problem.
Otherwise, looks good, and thanks for sharing.

[BajaJames83]

I like it.

That rubber mulch is another option. If you wanted to make it longer you could do it more like a traditional bullet trap and pile the mulch.

[McNally M.]

Won't pellets eventually cut through the wire mesh? Maybe not a problem.
Otherwise, looks good, and thanks for sharing.

The pellets do chew through the mesh, but only after repeated strikes in the same place which is rare and hasn't been much of a problem after hundreds of shots fired into the trap at this point. That steel hardware cloth is pretty dang resilient. In fact, most pellets that hit the wire will shear or stop dead in their tracks and drop down with a big imprint down their center.

Then again, I shoot only .177 into this trap which improves the chances few direct strikes into the wire simply because the pellets are smaller. And no magnum powered rifles...

[McNally M.]

I like it.

That rubber mulch is another option. If you wanted to make it longer you could do it more like a traditional bullet trap and pile the mulch.

Rubber mulch is definitely an option. And I considered it when putting the trap together, but it was more costly than the birch option and I wanted to spend as little as possible haha.

But if and when I swap out the mulch, it'll probably be rubber.