[mouser868]

Here at the house I have my own range set up, I have target boards set at 30', 25, 50, and 100 yards. At the target boards at the longer distances I have logs set behind the to catch the bullets so I can collect them at later dates so that I can recycle them and make cast bullets. My question is, what are the chances that if I do this at the one at 30' that the bullets may bounce back at me?

 

[lklawson]

Pulling bullets out of logs is an exercise in frustration and failure. To do this, you need some sort of bullet trap. Piles of sand, loose dirt, rubber "mulch," ...something.

Peace favor our sword,
Kirk

 

[histed]

Bullets do weird things. Shooting at round logs or trees at short range makes me very .... frightened. Still have the scar from last time. Kirk's idea makes better sense. Use the logs if you want, but put a backstop of some type in front of them. I like sand - easy to get in my AO, stops bullets well, easy to sift the slugs out of using screen and a shovel and no bounce back

 

[ajole]

Somewhere in a box I have a B shutter speed picture of a night fire “exercise” on a 50 meter range. Sand backstop. And tracers bouncing all over even after hitting the sand. Thankfully the sand bank backstop was inside a large roofed enclosure with side walls, and the ricochets didn’t have the oomph to get through those walls or roof.

I’ve become a big fan of steel. With the proper angle and a soil backstop, I think you can minimize bullets going places you didn’t want.

 

[lklawson]

Somewhere in a box I have a B shutter speed picture of a night fire “exercise” on a 50 meter range. Sand backstop. And tracers bouncing all over even after hitting the sand. Thankfully the sand bank backstop was inside a large roofed enclosure with side walls, and the ricochets didn’t have the oomph to get through those walls or roof.

I’ve become a big fan of steel. With the proper angle and a soil backstop, I think you can minimize bullets going places you didn’t want.

One of the problems with loose material traps is that bullets can, and do, pile up in one spot and make a "hot spot." One bullet can ricochet off of another which is already in the trap. Generally, if you're slow-fire, or at least not supper fast or FA, then bullets will sometime "settle" and minimize this issue. But it can still happen.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[histed]

Like I said, bullets do weird things

 

[adam01364]

Like I said, bullets do weird things

One never knows where that bullet may go. Remember the story back in 2015 where an East Texas man was wounded in the jaw after a bullet he fired from his .38 special at an armadillo ricocheted and hit him in the head?

Or that earlier that same year a guy from Georgia man injured his mother-in-law when a bullet he fire ricocheted off an armadillo, "hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back?"

 

[lklawson]

Or that earlier that same year a guy from Georgia man injured his mother-in-law when a bullet he fire ricocheted off an armadillo, "hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back?"

Sounds like a trickshot on a pool table.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[TNTRAILERTRASH]

M855 is an armadillo specific round.

 

[mouser868]

Think I'll try some different options

 

[undeRGRound]

I'm using dirt, but I also have plenty of it, since I'm The MOLE 😎

 

[Twisty]

One never knows where that bullet may go. Remember the story back in 2015 where an East Texas man was wounded in the jaw after a bullet he fired from his .38 special at an armadillo ricocheted and hit him in the head?

Or that earlier that same year a guy from Georgia man injured his mother-in-law when a bullet he fire oc ricocheted off an armadillo, "hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back?"

Mother-in-law? My money is on no ricochete involved.

 

[adam01364]

Mother-in-law? My money is on no ricochete involved.

I know, right? LOL

 

[Quavodus]

I've heard of several guys building a box setup with sand. Usually works good.