I want 6 to 10 17cm pellet traps and at £10-15 each, it soon adds up!

I've got a load of cold roll 0.7mm steel pre cut to 12" wide and a 3-in-1 12" sheet metal machine, so I've decided to just make my own. Here are the drawings if anyone's interested.

This drawing is for the top, bottom and sides. These can be spot/tack welded or riveted together and are designed to be attached to a vertical piece of steel or wood if you like. I'll be using whatever I have to hand, likely a bit of angle iron. Note the angles are beyond 90° so I guess I'll be finishing off the fold by hammering over a piece of metal or something (I'm not a sheet metal worker, I'll just keep hitting it till it makes sense)

Edited By Russ B on 05/01/2018 11:46:07

The plan is to mark out the steel and then cut out the full trapezoid, then the clip the corners off as show and then get busy with the box/pan folding, finishing off the +90° angles by hand unless I can machine a new "thing" for my 3-in-1 machine that will help me do it, since I'll have a lot of them to do. The tac weld them together and tack the assembly to a vertical piece of 50 or 60mm box or U channel or something I can easily attach to 2" wooden pegs.

If you look at the Top notation, it doesn't feature a folded edge, so the standard 17cm card targets are slid in from the top.

I have silenced a larger catcher which has 5 knock down targets inside by hanging a piece of rubber about an inch from the back of the catcher – you just get a muffled dud when the pellet hits.

I've never really been a target shooter or hunter, I just know I enjoy shooting. Lately I've found I get bored of shooting paper targets wrapped around fence posts etc pretty quickly and there's no continuity between sessions which could be weeks or months apart.

I plan to set out a small range out of the back of one the old stables at my Dads. Even if it's raining we can still sit/stand/kneel and have a pop and a cuppa in the dry.

I'll have something like 10, 20 and 30 yard targets for my scoped gas ram, and also 10, 15 and 20 yard targets for my dads iron sighted springer BSA Airsporter mk1. Each will be fitted with 17cm "Bisley 5 target" cards. We'll take one shot at each of the 5 target at each distance on one range, inbetween we'll score, and put 8mm white stickers over the holes, and then swap to scope/iron and go again. We can then date and keep the card and perhaps scribble a few notes on the back, wind/weather conditions etc.

The idea is to just make things a bit more fun and provide measurable results/continuity between sessions. I hope to extend the ranges to 50 yards scoped and 30 yards iron sights. I want plenty of target boxes so once each target on the scope and iron sight range has a fresh card, no one has to walk up and down between shots blocking the lane.

I hope that makes sense =)

Edited By Russ B on 05/01/2018 13:40:28

dwg fixed at that link – I'll change the one in my album now

That was a hell of a headache, not as simple as I first thought. The way I'd constrained the sheet metal in the 3D software led to a wonky box who's edges didn't align!!

Small, but very very important changes to almost every dimension on the drawing pulls everything in to perfect alignment.

Edited By Russ B on 05/01/2018 15:27:51