Quiet air pistol TARGET?

[Panzerschwein]

Hey everyone!

I shoot a Daisy 747. 177 air pistol indoors, and want to keep the sound down. The metal pellet trap I use lets out a loud PING! every time its shot. Does anyone make something quieter?? I'd imagine a foam block or something would make much less noise.

Thanks for the help all!

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Simple cardboard box filled with rags and/or newspaper works well. Can put rubber mulch in it if it won't be moved around a lot (bit heavy) and the mulch is a bit $$ which has made me stick with rags and paper. The mulch will stop much more powerful rounds though.

Can also put the above stuff into a 5 gallon bucket and shoot into it with it laying on it's side, piece of cardboard taped over the opening to keep stuff in and to hold the target taped to it. Bucket gives you a bit more insurance if your stopping material gets chewed up but it's not as large a target space.

I would do those before I bought anything.

 

[cslinger]

I have used quiet pellet traps for at least 10-14 years. My first one still works.

I build them with the following materials.
1-Cheap steel junction box from Home Depot or whatever 18-25 bucks

10-15 bars of duct seal (Also know as monkey shi@^) It comes in 1 pound blocks that look a bit like C4. 2-4 bucks a block. Its going to be in the electrical section of Home Depot or Lowes etc. Its heavy stuff once packed in.

1-Gate handle or something to that effect 4 bucks or so.

2 Binder clips Negligible cost

A few screws

A shoebox top or some other tray to catch the paper rips, pellets that tumble out of the seal etc.


Gut the box, drill and mount handle at top. Drill and mount binder clips at corners. Mold in 10-15 pounds of duct seal completely covering the inside back of the box. A layer and a half to 2 layers thick or so.

I have one with a lot of duct seal in it that will stop a .22 long rifle. Basically these will stop damn near any air rifle/pistol and if the round does make it through the duct seal (which it likely never will) it still needs the energy to punch the sheet metal......which it won't have.

These can be repaired easily with more duct seal or remolding of whats in it.

My first about 10-14 years old. I have just retired it to second tier. Its a small one packed with way more duct seal then necessary. That duct seal is the same stuff from when I first built it and it works as well today as day 1.




My newest. This one hold full 8.5x11 sized targets and has less duct seal making it lighter. I learned I didn't need as much as my first outing.





I actually just built a third to use in another location. These have all worked FANTASTICALLY WELL. The duct seal never loses it plyability at least in my indoor or garage use over the years. Leaving fully exposed to the environments might degrade it so YMMV.

Chris

 

[cslinger]

Another trick if you print your own targets.

1st-use a heavier grade of paper. Don't use cheap copy paper. Even with the heavy grade of paper use packing tape or HVAC tape or something to that effect in strips across the back of the paper. This will make your entry holes much cleaner/crisper.

 

[GLOOB]

I use a roll of toilet paper flattened out and wrapped in a few layers of saran wrap with a lead ingot as a base. Rewrap when the holes start to let the paper out.

That's a pretty small backstop, but what I do for pistol is to put a larger square of plywood in FRONT of the backstop with a 1" hole in the middle. With or without a target centered over the hole. When you do your part, you get quiet. Mess up and it is louder, lol.

 

[Panzerschwein]

cslinger, that's a VERY good idea!!

I might have to visit Home Depot this weekend!

 

[jcwit]

I use a steel tapered trap under the Gamo name, if I want it quiet I stuff a few old rags behind the target on the inside.

 

[BLB68]

For the lazy, there's a commercial trap constructed similarly to cslinger's.

Here's one on pyramyd air's site: http://www.pyramydair.com/s/a/Air_Venturi_A_G_E_Quiet_Pellet_Trap_Incl_Ballistic_Putty/1018

 

[WestKentucky]

Don't tell my college landlord this...but, we quite often shot in my 1 bedroom. Neighbors on either side knew what was up because they would come over. I had pellet guns, they had airsoft and bb guns, and a couple of my friends had real guns with suppressors in 45acp and 22lr. The 45 was a bit much, but everything else worked really well...the bathtub was at the end of a long hallway, and the apt was made for wheelchairs (not me, just the only one open when I signed a lease) so doors were nice snd wide 30 inchers for the most part. I had a small table I would sit in the tub, a 4x4 sheet of 3/4" plywood behind that, and empty "soda" cans and such were great targets. Milk jugs almost always stopped everything and drained slowly when punctured. If you have a place with good drainage, I would go with water. If you don't have drainage I would look to industrial contacts looking for a used, abused antifatigue mat that was being discarded. A few layers of that would not only be quiet, and stop a projectile, but would also be free.

 

[JSH1]

I shoot into an old Dell computer box lined with layers of old carpet.

 

[ChaoSS]

Small box (large cereal box is big enough for your gun) filled with less than 10 bucks worth of rubber mulch from home depot or Lowes. My traps get a piece of plywood or metal at the back just in case there is a hollow spot. No need to spend all that money on putty.

I used an old Amazon box, so it has maybe 6 inches of mulch to stop the pellets but that easily stops pellets from the marauder. Likely would stop a full power .22lr but I haven't tested that yet.

 

[Pete D.]

Duct seal or modelling Clay. About an inch thick across the bottom of a smallish Amazon shipping box. Line the bottom of the box with an inch or so of newspaper before putting in the clay. Maybe a bit more on top to take up space. Close and tape shut.
Pete

 

[alexander45]

I just use a cardboard box filled with cut up cardboard boxes and junk mail all stacked in nice layers

 

[savetheclaypigeons]

I have used the same thing cslinger posted for years minus the handle and clips. The box is magnetic so you can use a fridge magnet clip to mount your targets

I camo-ed it and leave it outside and it has taken .22 pellets and .22 CBs like a champ and is silent. Looks just like the day I put it together, minus the lead.

It's a little pricey to get into ($40 +/-), but will be there long after the cardboard is gone! Stick it beside a shrub and no neighbor will ever notice.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Well guys... I had some old gun cleaning rags I didn't need anymore and decided to stuff my metal conical pellet trap with the old rags.

EUREKA!!! It's now MUCH more quite! I think I've found my solution!!

 

[jcwit]

Glad it works for you, it works for me as well.

 

[TomJones]

Color Me Green

I am not a Green person normally. However my solution to a quiet pellet trap falls in the Recycle area nicely. I have the Gamo Pellet Trap and I take the shreds from my shredder and stuff it full. Makes 22 real quiet.