Discussing building your own shooting range in the basement:
JP>Actually, I already have this now.  Rubber bullets I got from Midway.
JP>Trouble is, it takes TIME to punch out the old primers and re-prime.
JP>I've got a full-time job, a part-time job, I run a BBS, plus it looks
JP>like I'm about to become newsletter editor for a local pro-2nd group.
JP>Thats not counting family obligations plus trying to have a life.
JP>I was really hoping that next winter I could just throw money at the
JP>problem and buy 22 caps already to go.  Plus, it would justify keeping
JP>my S&W model 18, which barely gets used now.
Why not get a bullet trap rated for .22s and use it with ordinary
.22s in that case?  A sheet of 1" plywood backed by a sheet of
steel, with a 2" separation from the plywood placed behind the trap
would be enough to stop the occasional "missed it completely" flub up.
Of course, it would be more noisy than CB caps -- but if your wife can
stand it . . . :-)
JP>But you're right, primer powered rubber or plastic bullets are wonderful
JP>_ really beats the hell out of dry-firing.  If you hang a couple of
JP>pieces of corrugated cardboard in front of a nylon tarp, you can skip
JP>the box of newspapers, the cardboard slows them, the tarp stops them,
JP>and they just roll down to the floor.
Hmmm . . . unfortunately, in my garage, there's so much clutter I don't
have space to hang the tarp.
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