Thread: Who has built a heavy duty cast bullet trap ?

Originally Posted by canross

Gundoc's design is in use at the local 200m range. Wearplate body, vertical heavy tube spiral out the back that drops into a bucket full of water for recovery. Excellent system, minimal maintenance, quite bombproof to regular calibers, excellent recovery of lead. As others have said, use wearplate/ar500... it's pricey, but better than it getting big chunks blown out of it, or not being able to use it for other calibers because you're worried about damaging it.

I'm sure you've got the bits laying around to put wheels on it and drive it to different distances behind a quad. Just make some ar500 mud flaps so you don't kill the tyres with an errant shot

Interesting vid. Apart from anything else, Jerry's comments re lead contamination. You can see quite graphically how much fine particle dust comes from bullets striking steel.