DIY bullet trap for BB and pellet guns

**Matt Owens** · Jan 12, 2020, 12:27 PM

**DIYer** · Jan 12, 2020, 02:50 PM

Thanks Matt Owens! We've added your BB Pellet Trap to our Firearm and Weaponry category,
as well as to your builder page: Matt Owens's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

BB Pellet Trap by Matt Owens

tags: safety

**jdurand** · Jan 13, 2020, 12:03 PM

I have a commercial trap where at the back of a cone it has a deflector tongue to send the pellets into a well. Two issues with that are pellets being kicked out of the well by the incoming one and the tongue gets bent back from the impacts.

So, for bounce back I stick crumpled newspaper into the well.

For the bent tongue, I dropped a 1/2 pound bar of lead from a Lee mold into the top. That's getting a bit flattened but generally is holding the tongue in place.

I got a low power target pistol just for this trap. My regular pellet guns are hunting level and would destroy the trap.

Trap in this thread:
Pellet trap wall protector

**Matt Owens** · Jan 13, 2020, 08:03 PM

Hi jdurand,

That is a nice trap you linked. Looks like you are a much better marksman than me. I needed something significantly larger than a soda-can-sized target to start with.

I made a trap from MDF a few years ago and used shredded paper for inertial absorption, but I only used a low powered spring-actuated BB pistol on that one. Unfortunately, I accidentally left it outside in the rain and it just did what MDF does in the rain... it kind of melted. The design was very similar to the steel one I made above and the coarsely shredded paper I used was about 90% effective. I have not fired too many rounds with the pellet gun yet on the new steel one but we have put it through a fairly exhaustive test with the BB pistol. Probably around 2000 rounds so far between my wife and I, and only about 15 have escaped.