We take safety fairly seriously around here. My old pistol range backstop was showing its age, so I decided to replace it, and here's what I did. You will note that as installed, the old one still looked pretty good. Taking it apart shows some flaws however. In my situation, that's not super bad, as there's a hill behind the range to catch strays. But I like to recycle the lead...and that guy was about to totally lose it.
- Looks OK, right? Wait till you see the innards.
- Still looks fine...but wait, there's more.
Here's the front after removal. The black stuff is "cattle mat" from Tractor supply.
- Old front of final deflector. You can guess where we usually staple the targets.
And here's the back side...issues. I used cast iron for this, not because it's the right thing, but because someone donated it and it's half an inch thick. But brittle. One more session and this would have been dust.
- See the issue now?
Like I said, I don't like my bullets to get away, and especially not the ones others who use my range are kind enough to donate to my bullet casting hobby.
So, I made another bullet catcher, which will be the next post(s) to keep under the picture limit of the board.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.
