DIY Indoor Shooting (BB & pellet)

[Half Cocked]

A Daisy Red Rider will punch through drywall like butter, and will also go right through a hollow wood door.

My Daisy BB gun sure wouldn't. When I was a kid I would put a large flattened appliance box up against the fence as a backstop. It worked great. The BBs would be embedded in the cardboard and I would take a small screwdriver and pop them out and reuse them. Cheap shooting since I didn't have to keep buying BBs.

[IVC]

Next, if shooting an airgun in your backyard is illegal, shooting one inside your house is illegal as well. Coming here to ask how to commit a crime is not acceptable.

This is very important to understand. It's unfortunate, but it's a fact. Similar to possessing an improperly configured rifle (AW) in your house. Still illegal.

For those who live in areas where this is *legal*, firing any projectile is no different than firing a bullet. The difference is in the shape, mass and speed of the projectile, but the rest of the safety considerations are the same. For example, addressing the backstop is a necessary step, but it doesn't address the possibility of misses (lateral bounds of the target line).

If you want to fire indoors, treat it as a firing range and run it as a firing range. One good way to understand what's involved, albeit likely an overkill in this case, is to become an RSO (range safety officer) and learn about how to run a safe shooting range and what's involved in daily operations. It's not the only way to be safe, but it's an industry standard that is used to make today's shooting a very safe activity.

[dwalker]

Airsoft range




Inexpensive and you can set it up in a garage or large area and practice. I have Airsoft guns that mimic my real guns almost exactly-

[maxwellca21]

you should just find your answer on Youtube, OP. spare yourself from all the flame.

[dwalker]

This is very important to understand. It's unfortunate, but it's a fact. Similar to possessing an improperly configured rifle (AW) in your house. Still illegal.

For those who live in areas where this is *legal*, firing any projectile is no different than firing a bullet. The difference is in the shape, mass and speed of the projectile, but the rest of the safety considerations are the same. For example, addressing the backstop is a necessary step, but it doesn't address the possibility of misses (lateral bounds of the target line).

If you want to fire indoors, treat it as a firing range and run it as a firing range. One good way to understand what's involved, albeit likely an overkill in this case, is to become an RSO (range safety officer) and learn about how to run a safe shooting range and what's involved in daily operations. It's not the only way to be safe, but it's an industry standard that is used to make today's shooting a very safe activity.

In my shop we used to shoot suppressed 22's into a target trap. Great lunchtime fun for all. Way safer than shooting pop rivets out of the blowguns.

I had never heard of an RSO until I started competitive shooting in college. Weird I know, since I shot everything from bb guns to muzzleloaders to high powered rifle and pistols, but I did not even know what range commands were. We just understood the 4 rules of firearms safety and that worked pretty dang well. That and a belt across the backside if you did something stupid like point your BB gun at your brothers backside (outside of a BB Gun War, of course)

[hunterb]

Scared to shoot a BB gun in your backyard???
People have been in California for so long they forgot what a free man acts like. Actually, that's not funny. It is just really, really sad.

Get a cardboard box, fill it with rags or newspapers and you're fine OP. Don't listen to all the chicken littles scared of their own shadows...

[Erion929]

you should just find your answer on Youtube, OP. spare yourself from all the flame.

No kidding. Wow, lots of BB uptightness

How about a large trashcan with sand inside....in the garage?

[Yuki]

There are target-boxes that catch pellets, bbs, bullets.
Search online. They might fit your need.
I don't know about your specific legality issues though so check that out yourself.

[bk23103]

My city has a municipal code against shooting any air guns in the City limits. I live in the unincorporated County though, so my dad and I recently had a few beers and sighted in his new Gamo .22 pellet rifle in the backyard. Lots of fun!

I set up some targets with a thumbtack against a tree stump in front of a block wall and we had a good time for a few hours.

[IVC]

Scared to shoot a BB gun in your backyard???
People have been in California for so long they forgot what a free man acts like. Actually, that's not funny. It is just really, really sad.

Get a cardboard box, fill it with rags or newspapers and you're fine OP. Don't listen to all the chicken littles scared of their own shadows...

No kidding. Wow, lots of BB uptightness

How about a large trashcan with sand inside....in the garage?

Tough Internet talk is a dime a dozen, but it doesn't change legality of shooting BB/air guns within city limits.

The laws are dumb, but they are the laws. Pretending that dumb laws don't apply to macho men is dumber than the dumb laws themselves.

[Cuda440]

When I was growing up, on rainy days my dad would hang a moving blanket in front of the (closed) garage door and hang a can from the opener track, then teach us to shoot our red ryders. The blanket absorbs all the energy and the bb just falls to the floor, never had a single ricochet.

Later on when I had a better pellet gun, an RWS that shot 900fps, we would stuff a bunch of crumpled newspaper in a cardboard box and pin a paper plate to the back of it with a target drawn on with a marker. We probably shot about 100 tins of pellets at newspaper filled boxes over the years, never had a pellet come through the back side

[Illumi Naughty]

My Daisy BB gun sure wouldn't. When I was a kid I would put a large flattened appliance box up against the fence as a backstop. It worked great. The BBs would be embedded in the cardboard and I would take a small screwdriver and pop them out and reuse them. Cheap shooting since I didn't have to keep buying BBs.

I remember them being pretty weak too as a kid (they would barely knock down soda cans), until recently I got a hair at Walmart and bought one of the $17 "Buck" Daisy BB Rifles before a desert trip. That new gun shot through aluminum cans, cardboard, faux wood paneling, glass bottles, and even the nice corrugated plastic Clay Target holder sheets. That gun also dented the crap out of an abandoned hood that belonged to a 60's Ford, so it was thick metal (not the thin stuff today). I dunno, as a kid I didn't have one but my neighbor kid had one we played with. Every once in a while, we'd get a BB to puncture the skin of our WWF Wrestler toys. Hulk Hogan had a couple flesh wounds.

[Half Cocked]

I remember them being pretty weak too as a kid (they would barely knock down soda cans), until recently I got a hair at Walmart and bought one of the $17 "Buck" Daisy BB Rifles before a desert trip. That new gun shot through aluminum cans, cardboard, faux wood paneling, glass bottles, and even the nice corrugated plastic Clay Target holder sheets. That gun also dented the crap out of an abandoned hood that belonged to a 60's Ford, so it was thick metal (not the thin stuff today). I dunno, as a kid I didn't have one but my neighbor kid had one we played with. Every once in a while, we'd get a BB to puncture the skin of our WWF Wrestler toys. Hulk Hogan had a couple flesh wounds.

Daisy still makes these vintage type BB rifles. They are listed at 350 fps max. They really weren't much good beyond 20 yards or so but they worked fine for shooting at close range in the back yard.

These were the types of BB guns we all had when we were kids. BBs were a lot cheaper than pellets and we sure couldn't afford to keep buying CO2 cartridges. Cheap fun.

[hunterb]

Tough Internet talk is a dime a dozen, but it doesn't change legality of shooting BB/air guns within city limits.

The laws are dumb, but they are the laws. Pretending that dumb laws don't apply to macho men is dumber than the dumb laws themselves.

Do you always go 65mph on the freeway?!
YOU CRAZY MACHO MAN!!

(Yes, I know that's a bad analogy, I just wanted to call you a Macho man!)






Been shooting BB guns and airguns in my backyard in the city / 'burbs going on about 35 years now. Not a single problem. Lucky to have good neighbors!!!

[baih777]

BB guns in the backyard are illegal?

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