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oddtodd · Senior Member

What is everyone with bb rifles using as a target stop? It's getting warm enough weather outside for my boy to use his red ryder, and I want to keep from ricochets as much as possible. I know my pellet trap doesn't work with it, one of the main reasons is it's too small to hit from much of a distance. lol I want something I can put behind pop cans to catch the bbs. Thanks in advance!

Slavia · Moderator

I use my regular cardboard box backstop in the basement. (Six inches of newspaper layered flat in the back, six inches of crumpled paper in the front.) My Daisy 1894 and Daisy 99 will penetrate the corrugated cardboard at 5 meters, but at 10 I get some bounces (they're not magnum springers). Then I replace the front panel with tagboard or shoe box cardboard.

With the 4H kids we used to hang a carpet scrap behind the cardboard boxes. You still get some bounces, but only a few feet.

In college I had some 2" styrofoam building insulation in my room, and that worked great for a Marksman MPR (older 1010). I was an RA, so I had the room to myself.

Safety glasses are cheap, in any event.

oddtodd · Senior Member

Yeah safety glasses are a given. It was a pain to find safety glasses to fit an 8 year old so I cut a pair down and used superglue to put them back together. It's just when he misses the pop cans in the basement those ricochets sting! lol

donec · Senior Member

Maybe an old bed sheet hanging loosely behind the target and a sheet of thin steel behind that with one of these strong earth magnets attached to it. The sheet should slow the BB's down so that maybe the magnetized steel will catch them.

brucey44 · New Member

TimB172 · Member

For shooting my Co2 BB pistol in the basement I built a simple BB trap. I just took an old table, lashed two tent poles to the front legs and then draped an old bed sheet over those. I tied the sheet to the poles and stapled it to the table top in the back to form what looks like half of a tent or a lean-to shelter or something along those lines. In the bottom I put an old area rug. The BBs bounce off of the sheet downward and hit the rug and usually don't go any further. Once in a while they bounce out, but not with any speed and they don't go far. For doing this outside, I would think a piece of plywood propped up and an angle would do the same, the BBs should bounce off of it and straight down into the dirt. Luckily, my yard has a little hill that runs along one side, a ready made back-stop just like at the shooting range. So I haven't had to build one for out door use.