We need help guys. We've got conflicting ideas between the range master and the silhouette shooters on how a bullet trap should be designed to keep the "ricochets" from leaving the range. The stands are about 4 feet high with three banks on them and a 5 to six foot high dirt berm behind them. They range master wants to weld supports (angle iron)on the sides of the stand and then weld a sheet of 1/4 inch 4x8 piece at a 30 degree angle with 18 inches extending in front of the stands. This current desing doesnt allow room for a target setter to get behind the stands at all. So I need some ideas from you guys on what to do. thanks Matt

David has excellent traps built around their targets down in Winnsborough...

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Thank you John... something about a picture being worth a whole lot of words... right up until you see Chicken!

Thought I had a better close up but I couldn't find it right off hand......Give Chicken a little face time....Maybe he'll cut me a deal on a new red leupold from the the custom shop

John

Man, That is some kinda good looking right there!


On topic - You can allways reach back with magnet on a stick type things and pick up the animals.... I would not let that be a deal killer....

The range in SW MO that I go to has a metal bar behind the targets with a pivot on each end. They have ropes they tie to each bank of targets. You just stand where you are shooting and pull the rope and it pulls up the bar along with all of the fallen targets.

Ha ha, How appropriate is it to use chicken wire behind the chickens. I guess that's to keep the chickens from flying over the stand.

Woodchuck wrote:The range in SW MO that I go to has a metal bar behind the targets with a pivot on each end. They have ropes they tie to each bank of targets. You just stand where you are shooting and pull the rope and it pulls up the bar along with all of the fallen targets.

That's the thought I was having.

Nice traps but an ugly chicken.

Here is what I did for my Ram stand. I would like to do it to the rest but not really worth the trouble. This set up does make target sets go pretty quick as the targets end up in front of the stand. My club match is this weekend, I will try and post some pictures.

Good luck, Paul Freeman

That's not a bad idea... put some type of "target return" system in where they fall forward...

Mike I printed this page out to take to the meeting tonight to show the powers that be. If we did it this way we wouldn't even need the berms behind the stands and we could use all that dirt for other things.

Be prepared to supply this drawing instead.

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! I think norm can accompish it, oh wait he can't because one of us stole his tools