Pellet gun basement plinking

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JimR

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Yesterday was the annual neighborhood multi-family garage sale (55 houses!). We participated, and a side effect is that the basement got a good bit of junk cleared out.

This allowed the basement pellet gun range to be reopened. A box full of old phone books and I'm plinking with my Daisy 747 .177 pellet pistol at a range of about 35'. Good practice on maintaining sight picture, breath control, and follow through. Not as good as a trip to the range, but better than nothing, and I can go down there and have a nice little session in 15-20 minutes. Also, it's good for reinforcing firarms handling safety with my son, who also gets instruction on this with .22's at camp in the summer.

Anyone else doing anything like this? What do you do to make it more interesting? I don't wanna hear from you guys with real basement gun ranges; I'll be far too jealous/envious!

[This message has been edited by JimR (edited May 14, 2000).]
 
Nope, unfortuitly I don't have a basement so I've got neither a pellet nor real basement gun range. :(

But on the up side when I want to plink I go out to my portch. I've got a target set up about 25 yards out that will handle pellet arms. :)

(I won't tell you it will also handle .22 and handgun bullets and that I've got 30+ acres off to the side (just behind the pellet target (10 acres give or take behind the target) where my 150 yard firing line is set up cause I don't want you to be jealous/envious :D )

Hey.. you didn't say anything about OUTSIDE ranges!! ;)

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I have the Beretta/Umarex c02 pistol, and it makes for fine basement plinking. I got a swinging silhouette pellet trap that is perfect for practice. I also use a .22 trap and hang targets and pop cans in front of it. When I shoot pellets everyday for a week, my range shooting (with Berettas, of course) is markedly better. Get a pellet gun that closley resembles your real piece and fire away. Check out airgun express online.

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I use a Crossman .177 pellet gun, the one that looks like a .357, in my basement. I just put my target on one side of a large cardboard box. It has some styrofoam packing in it, but its not packed or anything. The pellets do not come out the back. Makes for a cheap pellet trap. The practice is easy and cheap and has helped me quite a bit to learn to shoot with both eyes open. Its also fun :)
 
Something like a Gamo AF-10 is a great all around trainer. It resembles a SigP-226 a little. Even a $15 spring piston Marksman 1010 1911 clone can be a great trainer at close ranges. I have a big box setup with a silouette target on it. Inside the box is a heavy piece of canvas hanging down about 4" from the back of the box. I cut a small door out on the bottom side and lined the bottom with a cloth. Now I can shoot BBs from my 1010 with reasonable accuracy out to say 15' for practicing close up draw and fire drills and retrieve the BBs after the session to use again. I`ve shot thousands of rounds through it already and I`m still on my first small carton of BBs! :D Marcus
 
I used to use my old airsoft KG-99 (suppressed TEC-9 to you whippersnappers) and MP-5K to hunt cave crickets in the unfinished part of our basement. Tricky targets, tough to stalk, and you have to be careful; sometimes they charge when they're wounded... ;)

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JimR:
...What do you do to make it more interesting?[/quote]

We have a small pellet trap that not only holds paper or cardboard targets in front, but also has some TINY swinging silhouettes--turkey, pig, ram, etc. There are a couple of brands of pellet traps that have metal reactive targets. Although the targets are metal, because they move upon impact the pellets still fall into the trap. I have a large sheet of pressed board behind the pellet trap, and the occasional miss will stick in the pressed board and not ricochet.

See any large shooting catalog for these target traps with swinging silhouettes....
 
I also shoot pellet pistols in my basement. I mostly use a Beeman P3. I made a pellet stop with a cardboard carton, and a couple of the tins that 762X39 ammo come in. I shoot at 1" orange target pasters across the basement. I feel that this really helps me keep my concentration on the front site, and improves my trigger control. The only bad thing is that the P3 has a much better trigger than any of my centerfire semi autos, and this can really throw me off if I don't dry fire my "real" gun alot before a match.

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Plateshooter
 
You could set up a basement pellet gun range, except in most towns, and cities, it is quite illegal. No matter how safe an indoor range can be set up where I live, it is totally illegal regardless of bb, pellet, .22, or full-power cartridge.

OK, so what! you are saying, until Mr., or Mrs. nosy neighboor gets wind of it. Then you and your guns are toast as the Man will visit you.

Stick to the range or approved rural locals to do your shooting.
 
Don't have a basement, but I use my garage. I've got a Daisy 22 LR bullet trap which I use to catch the pellets. My pellet gun is the RWS 225, or Sig P225 lookalike. It has the heft and feel of the Sig.

Recently got a Rooskie AK-74 lookalike. Busy trying to figure out how to reassemble this thing. It looks and feels and weighs like the gun it is patterned after.
 
Don't have a basement so me and my son practice in the garage. Got a cardboard box about 15" x 30" x 12" with metal sheet gauge 18 all around it. I stuffed it with old blanket and put rubber sheets (just like your slippers) in front.

I give him a pair of binoculars when its my turn to shoot and pretend that I'm shooting off target. He's just as happy to give me direction whenever I don't hit that bull's eye.

vega
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I give him a pair of binoculars...[/quote]

Dang!! How big is your garage? :D

I used to use a big cardboard box with some old denim jeans in it to practice with BB's/pellets in the house. Worked fine.

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ooo you guys are really really really tempting me to buy a colt 1991 pellet gun...

If airsoft would make an ak74su (malyish) i'd already own one. ;)
 
Greetings,

The laws in my county (Santa Barbara, California) specifically _allow_ the discharge of pellet guns in locations designed so as not to allow the projectiles to leave the property. Laws on this subject vary from place to place.

I shoot in my backyard with a CO2 Crosman pellet gun (Model C40) that holds 8 .177 pellets. The gun is made of some alloy of zinc and is about the same heft as an auto pistol. Dr. Rob, you should look into one of these instead of the overpriced Colt replica.

Check it out:
http://www.crosman.com/cgi-bin/carbo.dll?icatcommand=itempg2&passitemid=122&secid=1&subsecid=16&eflag=0&itmcnt=5&catalogname=Gunshop&orderidentifier=161.213.96.90-958419247

I use the swinging metal targets or paper targets taped to a cardboard box full of newspapers with a 1" board in the back. My backstop is a compost heap in front of a low concrete wall in front of my metal storage shed, which is backed by an eight foot redwood fence. Putting a box lid or similar tray under the targets helps in collecting the spent pellets after practice.

My nearest place to shoot is 30 minutes away. The pellet guns are great for practice during the week, and for introducing youngsters and newbies to shooting and gun safety. They are also great for pest control of the racoon, crow and possum varieties.

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My method was to use a 5 gallon bucket filled with stiff foam and covered with card board for my air pistol (Webley Nemesis).
Worked great since I was in the communist state of Maryland.
Kept it in the closet (close door when people stopped by) across from the sofa so I could vent a little while watching the evening news.
Worked great, real quite.

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hey bad-dad-brad - ease up pal!... this is stuff you can do in apartments. It just depends upon the pellet gun. The weakest ones won't even break skin. The strongest ones can hurt one pretty badly. Common sense regarding variables like this is something that firearms enthusiasts have in common. It's those uninformed few that actually hurt people or end up being hurt themselves (and blaming others) that give all of 'us' a bad name.
 
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