cwalker3
Ultimate Member
I have a building on my property that I used to use as my shop abd would like to convert it to a range for my grandsons. The area to be used is about 30' x 30'. Walls are sheetrock up to 8' with four windows. I'm going to hang Masonite over the windows. My question is how to protect about 15' of wall at the back of the range. I don't want to destroy the sheetrock by shooting it full of .177 holes but I'm not really sure what to use as a backstop. And I would also like to incorporate some sort of way to trap all of the BB's.
One idea I seen on the net was old carpet or canvas. I do know where I can get an old canvas drop cloth but how to hang it? If it's too close to the wall then I'll still have to deal with ricochets. Too far off the wall and you have to come up with ways to hang a pretty heavy piece of cloth 12" from the wall. And then how to funnel the BB's into buckets, troughs, etc.
And ideas you guys can throw out there would be great. I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Edited to throw out one I just thought of. I'm thinking of using one of those blue polyethylene tarps. I can use curtain rod hangers to suspend it off of the wall. To catch the BB's, I'm thinking I could fold up the bottom of the tarp, higher at one end and lower at the other. At the lower end I'd put a 5 gallon bucket that the BB's could drain into. What do you think? Would the BB's hit the tarp and then just fall to the bottom or would the bounce off or even go though? I'd limit the power that they could shoot at. No more than 400 fps.
One idea I seen on the net was old carpet or canvas. I do know where I can get an old canvas drop cloth but how to hang it? If it's too close to the wall then I'll still have to deal with ricochets. Too far off the wall and you have to come up with ways to hang a pretty heavy piece of cloth 12" from the wall. And then how to funnel the BB's into buckets, troughs, etc.
And ideas you guys can throw out there would be great. I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Edited to throw out one I just thought of. I'm thinking of using one of those blue polyethylene tarps. I can use curtain rod hangers to suspend it off of the wall. To catch the BB's, I'm thinking I could fold up the bottom of the tarp, higher at one end and lower at the other. At the lower end I'd put a 5 gallon bucket that the BB's could drain into. What do you think? Would the BB's hit the tarp and then just fall to the bottom or would the bounce off or even go though? I'd limit the power that they could shoot at. No more than 400 fps.