New season, new backstop
Posted: Fri May 08, 2015 2:11 pm
We take safety fairly seriously around here. My old pistol range backstop was showing its age, so I decided to replace it, and here's what I did. You will note that as installed, the old one still looked pretty good. Taking it apart shows some flaws however. In my situation, that's not super bad, as there's a hill behind the range to catch strays. But I like to recycle the lead...and that guy was about to totally lose it.
Here's the front after removal. The black stuff is "cattle mat" from Tractor supply.
And here's the back side...issues. I used cast iron for this, not because it's the right thing, but because someone donated it and it's half an inch thick. But brittle. One more session and this would have been dust.
Like I said, I don't like my bullets to get away, and especially not the ones others who use my range are kind enough to donate to my bullet casting hobby.
So, I made another bullet catcher, which will be the next post(s) to keep under the picture limit of the board.
Here's the front after removal. The black stuff is "cattle mat" from Tractor supply.
And here's the back side...issues. I used cast iron for this, not because it's the right thing, but because someone donated it and it's half an inch thick. But brittle. One more session and this would have been dust.
Like I said, I don't like my bullets to get away, and especially not the ones others who use my range are kind enough to donate to my bullet casting hobby.
So, I made another bullet catcher, which will be the next post(s) to keep under the picture limit of the board.