The Great BB Chase . . .

[WarSAW]

Well, with us airsofters stuck in winter quarters until the weather breaks, I think it is inevitable that some of us have stayed fresh by praticing our marksmanship in a basment range, myself inculded. Well, this presents a bit of a problem, both to the walls (for finished basements) and to your sanity from chasing down run away bbs. Well, I fancy myself to be a bit of an engineer, so this past weekend I designed a very efftive bb trap and wall protection system.

Wall protection system:
Step 1: very easy, go to www.usps.com and order some priority mail boxes - they are free, and you can order as many as you want.
Step 2: when they come, simply deploy them, stacking if neccassary, against the wall you are going to be shooting at.

Target Trap:
step 1: take a box that is made of corrugated cardboard (I used a jumbo microwave popcron box) and cut out a 7x10 inch rectangle. Save the pannel you just cut, and tape it on the inside of the box, against the opposite side that you cut the hole from.

step 2: crumple up pieces of newspaper, used computer paper, or any other type of paper, and loosely fill the box.

step 3: This is the step that took some fine-tuning to figure out. Take a piece of thin paper (notebook or tracing paper) and put it inside the hole you cut, so that it is held in place by the crumpled paper. Adujust the curmpled paper so that the sheet is flat.

step 3: tape or pin your taget over the hole you cut.

step 4: star shooting!

with this set up the bbs will pierce the target, pierce the sheet underneath, be slowed by the filling, and finaly hit the inner wall. The bbs won't have the energy to bouce back through the filling, and pierce both pieces of paper. The panel you put in will just save wear and tear on the box. I tested this setup with a stock Marui MP5K, a spring UHC MP5, and a Super90 Pro. In all cases, the bbs were trapped in the box for easy retervial.

[Blag]

haha, thats funny, very very true (basement range) i have been shooting all winter in my base and went thru about 3 bags of 3700 but the thing is i never bother to pick em up unless im gonna shoot some thru my pistol so i have like 11,100 bbs all over my floor

[Harley]

What happens when you miss the target?

[Minky]

I have a similar target/BB trap I use, where else, in the basement. ;D It's a 12"x10" box, turned on its side so that the open top is facing you, with the flaps pushed into the box. I filled it with shredded newspapers, and taped one sheet of newspaper across the entire opening. I then tape whatever I'm using for a target onto the whole set-up. I've found the cardboard circles from frozen pizzas work quite well with a bullseye drawn on. Lately I've been using some annoying old kitten calendar I found at my house. This week I'm shooting out the eyes of the March kitty.

[WarSAW]

NO! NOT THE KITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!



and in answer to Harley's question, you stack the boxes from the first part of my scheme behind your intended target so that any stray bbs will impact the boxes insead of the wall. I find that with my springers I almost always hit the 7x10 rectangle, and with my MP5K I will have a few more misses, but that is what the boxes behind the trap are for.

[Harley]

Sweet maybe I'll try that sometime when my parents aren't home.

[WarSAW]

I just had an insipiration! What if you just took any normal cardboard box, and instead of cutting it up and whatnot, just get some Play-doh and make a target on the box with a flat pancake of the sutff. So when you shoot it, the bbs will become lodged in the play-doh, like a sticky target!

I guess I derive my reasoning from the time my roomates and I shot up some stale cupcakes with my HFC MP5. . . it's the same principle ;D

[Bigmack]

bah...then you need to dig through the play-doh...and playdoh will surely stick to the plastic BB...

[Ballista]

Haven't you guys heard of a bullet trap? It's a box with a wall behind the target hole sloped at a 45 degree angle. The bullet or bb passes through the hole, hits the wall and is deflected downward into the box. It's a pretty simple concept.

[Cardan]

yeah that works but it is easier just to take the box idea then have to make some piece of wood or somthing and angle it at 45 degrees and have the box thing at the bottom.

[luke213]

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