Homemade Bullet Trap: Redux
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- This video is a follow-up (some could say a re-filming) to my original "Homemade Bullet Trap" video.
This video is filmed under much better lighting conditions and with a much better camera. Hopefully, it more clearly shows the bullet trap and answers many of the questions that I have been getting about it.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy!
Want to see it tested?
• Homemade Bullet Trap: ...
If interested, the original lives here:
• Homemade Bullet Trap
I saw the original video 4 1/2 years ago and was impressed with your dads' design so much I made two copies.
I had four .025 X 24" X 24" steel plates, my pipe is .025 X 4" Dia, steel
My finish Bullet stops are 24 inches opening square, the angle of approach is 60 degrees. the top round disk is .025 X 8".
I have used these with calibers from 22 LR -45 ACP - to 30/06 ( My 30/06 is down-loaded using Trailboss for reduced recoil)
These are coolest backstops and the bee's knees, at my home range. Kudo's to you DAD !
You can see my two in my avatar upper left.
This comment is appreciated more than you know. Those sound like awesome traps! I hope you get to enjoy them for years to come and pass them down to the next generation.
You mean .25 (1/4"), not .025 (24 guage), I hope.
Finally a great video on how to make a bullet trap. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the positivity! This thing truly is an antique. About a year ago I showed the trap in action and tested it against certain calibers that I had on hand. That video lives here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Even pellet trap builders could learn from you! 😎
Thanks! Very kind of you to say. We put it through some tests here: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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Very cool trap. Got to love having work from older generations.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a great comment! Happy shooting!
This is a better design for a pellet trap than mudflaps hung at 45* angles. I'm thinking a vertically hung flap will be a sufficient substitute for the pipe. Ideally I'd like to have the bottom of the trap collect the spent pellets. This is for a 25' indoor range.
Thanks for the video!
Hopefully it gave you some ideas. We have some fun testing the trap here: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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@@HNXMedia Absolutely! I work as a truck driver so the mudflaps are free. I use cabinets that are left at the curb for the trap frame. Drywall screw the mudflaps into position onto scrap lumber. Figuring out the best angle to eliminate ricochet.
That's pretty cool. I need to learn about sound deadening for an indoor range. Thanks for posting this video. 👍
When I was a kid, dad built a "shooting booth" out of plywood and used insulation to deaden the sound (probably not the best way, but it worked). This was after he blew out the single pane window above the washing machine with the concussion from a .357 round. Mom was not happy. These days, I would build a "booth" of some sort and then use some of the more high-tech noise deadening panels that they use in studios. This trap has been relocated to my outdoor range. You can check out some video of that here: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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Dang that is a really cool design. I need something like that for my farm. I bet it would handle rimfire perfectly.
You can see it "tested" a little in this video: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Nice Trap. IMHO You should hang on to it, take care of it, and use it, then pass it down. Keep it in the family... They dont make things like the Ol' Timers make anymore. You got the best of the best... I would add on a lead catch to recycle the scrap lead.
Thank you for your very kind words. The "lead catch" is a great idea. I usually prop the trap up and let the lead just "fall out" the bottom. Putting a catch under there would give me plenty of extra lead to play/experiment with. At this point the trap is headed to one of my homestead sites where i will be building a massive range. I will be keeping it "covered" when not in use so that the elements don't chew it up. I will be doing some videos actually shooting at it this summer so folks can see it in action. Would love to see it become an heirloom piece at some point, but my only daughter has four furry legs and has a heck of a time wielding a firearm (though she is smarter than some folks I've seen at shooting ranges). When I pass, I would love to see it go to someone who will appreciate it.
Thanks for watching and posting an AWESOME comment! Happy shooting! #2AStrong
the deflection plate angle at a range may be listed as 12 degrees so for a silhouette target
make 2 steel triangles 56 inch "tall" with a 24 inch wide "base" for the top & bottom &
make 2 steel trapezoids 56 inch "tall" with a 45 inch base & 21inch "top" for the sides
to make a 5 foot-ish funnel that you weld the small end into a 2 inch slit in a 6 inch pipe
May have been said already, but 12" on each plate and 12" between, the angle (allowing for the gap) is likely closer to 30 degrees. Just a note for anyone thinking of building one. Would have been nice if you had shown the bottom.
The original "terrible quality" video might show that better: Homemade Bullet Trap
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I think that it is a given that this was made from a ballistic capable grade of steel, definitely not mild steel which at 1/4” wouldn’t have survived so well without deformation for 40 odd years of being shot at.
Yeah, I have no idea what my dad made it out of. He worked in so many different machine shops growing up, it is hard to tell what he got his hands on. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Check out our most recent testing video here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Hi, might have missed you telling what size that pipe is that the lead ends up into but I would like to know thanks
It's a 3 inch pipe (external diameter). See it in action here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
What is the diameter and wall thickness of the round pipe?
1/4 inch
The angle is 60°...NOT 45° . If the sides are 12" and the opening is 12" then it makes an equilateral triangle and all angles are therefore 60°s
And this is why I failed high school mathematics. Much appreciated. Happy shooting.
Noticing your video's title...got me thinking. Why don't people put bullet proof "plates" (flexible and light versions we put in vests) in the walls? If it can be done why not? Importnat if we have family in other rooms and there's no time to grab them during e.g. during an armed home invasion. (wonder how often that happens)....we hear of stories were intruders are scared off by home owner).
Just remembered...there IS such thing as bulet-proof drywall. :) Used in Panic rooms or gun sfe rooms. :)
Bullet traps. Great for commercial ranges....necessary. Or home indoor ranges.
You, my friend, may have yourself a million dollar idea. Many ranges these days use "block" made out of recycled/shredded/compressed tires. They stop bullets dead. I like the idea of putting plates or other material between walls (if it is a new build/construction). Retrofitting would be a nightmare. Awesome ideas and glad you left the comment.
Two questions: do you know if its mild steel or stronger?
And have you only shot lead rounds say less than 1000fps or some faster jacketed loads as well?
Question 1: Not sure about the level of steel. Dad built it in a machine shop when I was a kid and I know little to nothing about steel and steel quality. Question 2: I have shot lead (several calibers) and jacketed (9mm) rounds into this trap. For a "little" more info, check out my "testing/update" video here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching. Happy shooting. Peace.
I don't want to buy it but I do have a couple questions on the build what are the dimensions of the plates and the pipe I have a welder and home and would love to make this and I was also curious just wanted to ask if you have ever gotten any Splash back from shooting into this thing looks like a really good design but the splash back was only thing I was really worried about
Each plate is 22 inches high by 12 inches wide. The opening across the front (from side to side) measures just over 12 inches. The diameter of the pipe is 3 inches. All steel is 1/4 inch. This was designed for shooting in our basement when I was a kid. Never had any splash back. Here is the original video (warning, crappy audio): ua-cam.com/video/82y-0RoDdgI/v-deo.html and here is a "recent" testing video: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
what if you shot directly on the middle?
Glad you asked. Check out this video here: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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A friend of mine has a 1/4" piece of steel handing on a stand. I shot it with a .44 Magnum Rifle with a 240 grain jacketed hollow point bullet. The bullet didn't penetrate the steel plate but it put a 2" deep dimple in the plate.
If it is "free-hanging" I am surprised it even made a dimple. Cool info! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment. Would love to see the video!!!
Great idea! But what a chore listening to this guy DRAG out for almost 8 minutes what could have been explained in 1......
I know, right? Go easy, killer, this was one of the first videos I ever made on my original channel back in 2009 maybe (can't really remember), this was a re-upload (hence "redux"). But honestly, I appreciate the comment and the constructive critique. Want to give me another chance? I hopefully don't ramble too much (like I am here) in this follow-up video where I show the trap in action: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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Dope
Awesome I'mma make one thank you. Thank to ur father.cheers💪✌️✌️👍 should show the bottom of trap to show the overlap ur talking about 👍
Thank you for the very kind comment. I do not know why I didn't show the overlap in this video. I showed it in the original version of this video (you can even see it in the thumbnail) but not sure how I left it out of this one. If you want to see the original (warning the sound is terrible) you can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/82y-0RoDdgI/v-deo.html Thanks again. Happy shooting. #2AStrong
Wonder how this would hold up against .223 round and larger like my 270 deer rifle
I am glad you asked. I will be taking this trap to a piece of property I own later this summer (maybe early autumn) and I am going to test it against a 223/556 round. I will be filming that (completely unscientific) experiment, so hopefully, you stop back by and see how it held up. I, however, do not own a 270, so I cannot test it against that caliber. I do have a few 7.62x39mm rifles I could test (but only if it survives the 223).
Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a great comment!
saw the follow up for the 223/556 and well guess tht answers everyones question lol will be constructing a smaller version for my handgun shooting.
Wouldn't
this ok for pistol ,but for 223,you will need ar 500,plus a double walled thick verticle pipe.
I can guarantee your 270 will punch through. Just as a reference, a friend and I fired some shots at a free-standing small-boar size silhouette target made of 1/2" mild steel plate and were surprised to find my 243 punched though. Then we found that his 30-30, despite it's lesser velocity did as well. The bullet holes looked all the same, about 1/2" in diameter, with both exit and entry side edges curling outward. This with factory soft point hunting ammo.
Thanks for the follow up . Planning on making one .
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment! Have fun and be safe! If you do make one, take a video and link it to mine! I would love to see someone else's take on Dad's bullet trap.
thank you for the video
Thanks for watching. Hope it gave you some ideas. Here is our video of live testing the trap in the wild: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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THANK YOU!!
You're welcome! Hope it gave you some ideas. We test is out here: Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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Great content. Keep it up!
Great video. I would also appreciate the tube diameter and wall thickness. Another thing is that in both videos it looks like the slot narrows from top to bottom. Could just be the camera angle but it could be part of the trapping function, or erosion.
The plate and pipe are 1/4 inch thick. The pipe is approximately 3 inches in diameter (keeping in mind that it was split and slightly widened in the process). The slot does narrow from top to bottom (good eye!). However, it is not part of the trap function nor erosion/damage of any type. It is actually just a product of "bad clamping" during the welding process (the old man didn't quite get it lined up square. Dad made this at a machine shop during a lunch break - time was of the essence lol.)
Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment!
I'm curious I may not have heard you correctly because I don't remember hearing it but what angle are those plates set at relative to the setting of the pint because from the vantage point you have it set in the camera view looking down into it I am somewhat concerned that some of my inexperienced shooters which are my two step daughters and my son wood shoot one side or the other at such an angle that it could possibly Ricochet back because we'll be using 22 that is a concern of mine I do like the idea and I like the overlap on the second plate that was an excellent idea that I do not even consider I just thought they were both butted up even to the pipe
Thanks for watching. This is an awesome comment. Very helpful. You bring up a lot of valid points. Check out this video where we finally tested the trap after many, many years: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
@@HNXMedia hey bud I did have one other question is what was the thickness and how big was the pipe was that a 4in pipe or was it bigger because I have some plate steel sitting around and I'm ready to make it I just need to go buy the pipe and I was needing to know the thickness of that pipe is it also 1/4 inch because if possible I'm going to try and find some 3/8 inch thick pipe and use it because I've made quite a few swinging steel targets for just shooting my 45 ACP and my 22 rifle at and those surprisingly didn't crater for anything with the 45 rounds hitting them or at least from what I can tell there wasn't any deformation of the plate how was using 3/8 plate I wouldn't expect it to stop Big Bore rifles but at least up to my 45 ACP it held on that
Thanks so much!!!
Thank YOU for watching! Hope it gave you some ideas.
That’s very interesting
Check out our update/testing video here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching and taking the yime to leave a comment. Peace.
Please tip the thing on it's face and show the bottom so we can see the pipe size.
I think I do that in one of these two videos with exact measurements (or close enough) if I remember correctly:
Homemade Bullet Trap: The Test
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Homemade Bullet Trap
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what size pipe was used?
Gary Kennedy 6" I believe he stated in the other video...
Ah hah I can actually hear you this time sir, I greatly appreciate the reshooting this video what is the thickness of the pipe?
I know you stated you have had offers for it. I would love to hear the price you would let it go for. That plus the expensive shipping (for that weight) might make me a very happy person. I have a safe place to use it and a .22 that would love it. Please let me know the price you would let it go for. I am not a tire kicker I am serious as I could never build one myself. Thank you.
Heck you could go pick up some plate steel from the local scrap yard for really cheap and the pipe as well and $100 flux core welder from Harbor Freight it even comes with a roll of wire and a handheld welding mask, and you can watch a few videos on how to use the flux core welder very proficiently, and you can make the exact same bullet trap without having to pay the insane shipping, and not have to have someone part with something that's I'm assuming very sentimental to them... or you can contact a local welding shop and I'm sure they would fabricate you up something exactly the same for a decent price I'm going to make one of these today the only thing I'm going to do different is put a solid piece of bar over the top and to where I can hang a thick slab of rubber in tank a few metal Clips too so I can hang Target's off of it in front of the rubber slab as an extra precaution against anything coming back up range because I have a ten-year-old year old pair of stepdaughters then I am going to start teaching how to shoot and my one year old son who I have started kind of showing him how to use a BB gun but he's too young to even grasp the concept of it yet but he likes watching me shoot my 22 and I hold the BB gun for him and let him pull the trigger and I'm trying to teach him how to aim down the iron sight to hit a Popcaan it was funny because the first day I was starting to teach him how to shoot that BB gun I took that Old Red Ryder lever action BB gun put it behind my back in 15 foot away hit a pop can first shot he just started laughing because I freaked out with excitement that I had actually told that shot off I was doing it as a joke but where I live is way out in the Sticks so normally we don't really worry about how far are the bullets going to travel because normally it's me or my girlfriend shooting and weird experience but the kids who definitely are not then I'm training made send a 22 round the three quarters of almost a mile away to where the old farmer lives that runs cows and lets me shoot towards his land because I've known him for 30 years he said he doesn't care as long as we don't hit his house or his cows plus his land is heavily wooded so it would more then likely stop in a random tree but I don't want to take that chance, and end up paying for a cow or a house or something like that lol plus if you learn how to use the flux welder just think you'll have an extra skill in your book I have been hobby welding for probably 15 years and I will admit I have never tried flux welding until about 2 years ago, I am awesome with a stick or mig welder, and I was terrible with the flux welder at first, now I can easily weld 1/2" plate when the welder is only rated to "supposed" to be able to weld half that thickness you may have to invest in a little more time to learn the flux welder but I can promise you we it'll be cheaper to buy the plate pipe and the welder then to buy somebody sentimental value plus the insane shipping because I am a sentimental person and I have stuff of my grandpa's that I won't ever give up
.556 is not going to "cut right through" 1/4" plate at a 45⁰ angle. I know from experience and if I knew I would make a few bucks I would record me shooting it but I don't do anything for free so you will either have to believe or think I'm full of crap
If interested, tested here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
At several gunshows, they sell 3/8" thick pendulum style swing targets. I can tell you from my own experience that an AK round will go right through it.
Ten Second BuickGN Facts! This is not designed for high powered rifle rounds.
Straight on vs. angle
No difference with any caliber round that I have ever shot at this (as far as how its held up). If you shoot stronger loads in fast succession at the same point on the extremes of one of the panels you can get the trap to "spin" a very little bit, but it requires deliberate, repetitive, fast shot placement.
Remember, I have been shooting at this thing for over 30 years. It has never been repaired or re-welded in any way. That should tell most folks everything they need to know.
Thanks for watching!
.40 cal?
All day long. I did some tests of other cals in this video: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
“Antique” is “100” years or more. “Vintage” is more accurate.
You are correct, my friend. I'd agree and call it "vintage" and suggest that you need to watch this video here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
id like to see the pipe not dead center to slit for square on shot
See it it action here: ua-cam.com/video/CRGz6rFKF-w/v-deo.html
Excelent bullet trap
Thanks for your kind comment! The first time I tried to show dad's bullet trap to everyone, the video kind of turned out crappy.
I inherited this trap when he passed back in 2006. At least this time the explanation was clear and concise...exactly like dad (an electrical engineer) would have expected. We would shoot at this thing in our basement when we lived in the city, before we moved to the county.
Thanks again! Namaste!
Next time, make a drawing or white board presentation to show the view from above, or show a view from above the pipe area. 📐 🖍️ 📹
Ok next time
Antique?..... it was made in the 1980s LOL. it wold be Antique if it was made in the 1880s or 1780s
LOL. Don't tell all those people who sell their crap at those "antique" stores that. Most of those places sell stuff from the 70s-90s. Would you settle for the term "vintage?"
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Hell it's damn near forty years old and still holding up strong for housing that plate steel is in a machine shop there's a possibility it can be some strong strong steel but more than likely it's probably just mild Steel too I'm making one 3/8 inch thick plate because I recently made swinging steel targets out of 3/8 plate and they were standard the 45 ACP 1911 that I own and that's with shooting my pressure plus Self Defense loads at em I figured since it's going to be stationary and not free hanging or anything I better make the steel thicker