Best matrial to stop a pellet

Cardboard box stuffed with old towels, I have plenty of replacements donated by family too…also make great cleaning rags for motorbikes 👍. Have a cardboard face to stick the targets to . It’s quiet and lasts for a good while before needing restuffing.it’s basically free to make and any size you like…….dont leave it out in the rain though like someone did 🙄
 
Longrod said:
Cardboard box stuffed with old towels, I have plenty of replacements donated by family too…also make great cleaning rags for motorbikes 👍. Have a cardboard face to stick the targets to . It’s quiet and lasts for a good while before needing restuffing.it’s basically free to make and any size you like…….dont leave it out in the rain though like someone did 🙄
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Got it in one!
Free, silent, 5 minutes to make from any old box.
Will stop any 12 fpe pellet even at very close range with 8" of stuffed rags.
I put a piece of wood in the back of mine but nothing ever reached it.

Keep it dry!
 
mattmiles1989 said:
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I use a box when using my chronograph to catch the pellets after it goes through my lmbr chronograph. I was using a argos catalogue for years with great success no pass through but always had bits of paper scattered after to clean up. So I put a yoga block (foam) and another bit of foam In the box and had a complete pass through at 5.4ftlb pistol so any recommendations paper works but cleaning up bits all the time is annoying cheers
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Plumbers Mait is a popular backstop lining
lead is very effective at stopping ricochets and deadening impact noise- either a 1/2" layer cast (waste pellets) in a baking tray.
Or layers of flashing in a box, a little card up front to keep any fragments from gettting knocked back out

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Like many have mentioned, an old cardboard box stuffed with old clothes or towels, as long as they aren't packed tight and allowed to envelop the pellet they are perfect.
 
Fibre glass m/c crash helmet screwed to block of wood filled with carpet and blocks of foam to stop ricochet. Only used for ft/lb checking.
 

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Fibre glass m/c crash helmet screwed to block of wood filled with carpet and blocks of foam to stop ricochet. Only used for ft/lb checking.
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That's exactly what my box is used for just checking the rifle and pistols power
 
I use 20” carpet tiles, very cheap, and they stop any size pellet, fasten them to plywood, plastic bin, or almost any back stop
 

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I made mine like the guy on YouTube, HuntersVermin. A plastic box with a hole cut in the lid and filled with rubber mulch and a piece of foam yoga mat. I also put 3/4" inch ply and a towel in the bottom. Very quiet.
 
Outdoors lead cast into a baking tray.
Indoors a box stuffed with old rags, just replace the front card every now and then just so you can see where the pellet is hitting the card, don't want to miss 😁
 
Many of the solutions proposed are either noisy, messy or very inconvenient to deal with. Plumbers mate is quiet but getting the pellets out afterwards is messy. Melting lead is not as easy as it may seem and has health issues. Rather than melting lead I use roofing lead sheets laid in a baking tray. Quieter still and even easier is old clothes pressed fairly loosely into a box.

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Another thumbs up for plumbers putty, my trap has a free swinging steel back plate with a layer of putty stuck on front, stops the pellets dead and Very quite
 
Where I used to work provided that toilet paper that is like grease proof paper the rolls where bigger than a normal bog roll so I took one put rags in the center and wrapped it all with duck tape and I have used that same one as a backstop when chronoing for about 15 year every so often I plug the holes I've shot back up with kitchen roll really pack it in tight and put another layer of duck tape over tge hole it now weighs about 10 kg and will stop anything shot at it fac the lot
 
Tried a few of the suggestions mentioned, but in my target funnel now I just use torn up card targets, and the pellets and debris from the shot card also fills it up. I just leave the last used card in place to stop things falling out.
Does the same job as the other things I’ve tried but without having to do anything too taxing. Over time it’s managed to pack itself rather tightly with being constantly shot.
 
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