Ballistic nylon

[monsta41]

you could do as i have in the past, go to a carpet shop and ask them if the have an old sample book... usually for free and you get between 5 and 10 12 inch square carpet tiles in a book that you can just hang up.....most pellets would be stopped by the 5th or 6th ones

 

[The Rat Hunter]

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Also put a liner between the lead and backboard if using steel. A piece of carpet or a rug or something. So the pellet hits the lead absorbs it then hits the carpet making it very quiet. Otherwise you'll still hear the ping hitting the steel behind the lead

 

[GridNorth]

I said £12 for 1000mm x 150mm AT A BUILDERS MERCHANTS you said £42 for a 3000mm x 150mm roll from the Internet .

Not nasty , just trying to help but you seem to have all the answers so I’ll leave you be

Fair enough. I simply looked up lead flashing at my nearest building merchants and 1000mm x 150mm was not presented as an option. I got the impression that I had somehow upset you and I was trying to put things right.

 

[Beaver]

Lead flashing going free at local church

 

[pjgtech]

As others have suggested, lead sheet (about £20 a roll for small roll of code 3 lead) or paving slabs, both make great backstops, very quite, pellets will stick to lead or splatter and fall with slabs, so can just be swept up or put some sort of collecting tray at the base.

 

[Buryal]

If you need small size lead sheet tap up a roofer.

 

[pjgtech]

I've used plastacine in the small target holders which worked ok

or a tub of plumbers mait...

 

[GridNorth]

Loads of helpfull replies but my original OP was about ballistic nylon. We seem to have gone off topic.

 

[GridNorth]

or a tub of plumbers mait...

I tried plumbers mait. It's horrible and difficult to work with and not the same as Duct Seal as available in the US, it's advantage being that it comes in bricks.

 

[pjgtech]

Loads of helpfull replies but my original OP was about ballistic nylon. We seem to have gone off topic.

See post #2, and as no-one has stated that they have used nylon, you have your answer.... good luck with it...

 

[Cammie1314]

An off cut of industrial rubber conveyor belt (10mm reinforced) hung behind your targets will stop pellets quietly with no ricochets if you just let it hang loose. I use it in my 10m loft range and my 25m outdoor target, no pellets have ever came back.

 

[GridNorth]

See post #2, and as no-one has stated that they have used nylon, you have your answer.... good luck with it...

See post #2, and as no-one has stated that they have used nylon, you have your answer.... good luck with it...

Yes the concensus appears to be for lead so that's what I will try. I may however purchase some ballistic nylon just to try for myself. With regard to the lead how is it held in place?

 

[shergar]

Anyone seeking small amount of lead need only stop at a roofing job and ask.
With scrap yards no longer paying cash, weighing in small amounts is hardly worth the hassle.
Code 4 lead weighed 4 lbs/sq ft.
2 sq ft, giving double thickness, should cost £10 in scrap yard or £5 to the boys on the scaffold.
Cut and mangled flashing melts just as good as flat sheet.
Set backstop at angle so rebound is downwards into tray.

 

[Michael]

At a local indoor range they had a ballistic 'curtain'.
.22rimfire went through it and hit the steel backstop,
.177 pellets would usually get stuck in it - or pass through if you keep shooting the same spot.
.22 air rifle pellets used to bounce back of it at you.
I can't remember What they said it cost but it wasn't cheap, I'd look at alternatives like lead sheet as previously mentioned, or if I'm shooting in the garden I use a paving slab and most of the pellets fall onto the floor in front of it.

 

[Phil67]

I use a box of rags from car parts direct very well compacted and quiet about 70cm x 50 and 15cm thick no precise measurements

 

[GridNorth]

I use a box of rags from car parts direct very well compacted and quiet about 70cm x 50 and 15cm thick no precise measurements

That's what I currently use. The problem I find is that it needs a piece of cardboard in front to keep the rags in place and the pellet hitting the cardboard is itself quite loud. It also wears a hole very quickly.

 

[foxbat]

Does anyone have experience with ballistic nylon for a silent pellet trap? All the tried and tested methods have the disadvantage that recovering the pellets can be messy. I was wondering if ballistic nylon, hung loosely like a curtain, would simply let the pellets drop into a tray.

Al

I remember reading about someone trying this on the US forums. Apparently you go through it quite quickly after hitting it repeatedly.

 

[The Rat Hunter]

Yes the concensus appears to be for lead so that's what I will try. I may however purchase some ballistic nylon just to try for myself. With regard to the lead how is it held in place?

Just wedge it in, or screw the first layer then fold it back on itself then once you shoot it itll merge together as one

 

[The Rat Hunter]

Anyone seeking small amount of lead need only stop at a roofing job and ask.
With scrap yards no longer paying cash, weighing in small amounts is hardly worth the hassle.
Code 4 lead weighed 4 lbs/sq ft.
2 sq ft, giving double thickness, should cost £10 in scrap yard or £5 to the boys on the scaffold.
Cut and mangled flashing melts just as good as flat sheet.
Set backstop at angle so rebound is downwards into tray.

If you use lead there are no rebounds, they just splatter into the lead that your shooting at.

 

[Robbi]

As my unimpressed wife would say "we don't live in a foundry"

Where can I get hold of small lead sheets without having to buy huge sheets as you typically see advertised for roofing?

But if you have no experience how do you know if ballistic nylon would work or not?

Al

I dont know about the ballistic nylon, but ive bought rolls of lead flashing before from a builders yard