gonna be the cutman for a friend replacing a bunch of landscape timbers tomorrow . planning on bringing some home to make a backstop/pellet trap . i'm debating between making a box that will hold three 8 1/2 x 11 inch target sheets or a 4ft by 4ft wall with a frame in front to hang target sheets on . i'm leaning towards the wall mostly because it'll give me a larger area to stop stray pellets at longer ranges .... when i get capable of shooting that far ;) :-*
The wall gets my vote. Might as well go big if ya got the room.
Wall. :-* :-* :-*
The wall unless you need it portable....
got most of the job done today , gonna finish tomorrow . the timbers are way too far along to reuse , but i'll still make a little wall out of something else . gonna take some pain RX for my knees and back , pushed myself too hard today and the heat didn't help . later folks
Cool you know were gonna need pics of the finished job. Hope ya get rested up.
That should make a good back stop in either size. Go easy on the knees and back bro! Hope you feel better in the am. :-*
Quote from: DBOdude on September 01, 2013, 05:26:58 AM
got most of the job done today , gonna finish tomorrow . the timbers are way too far along to reuse , but i'll still make a little wall out of something else . gonna take some pain RX for my knees and back , pushed myself too hard today and the heat didn't help . later folks
Trees work good, too. ;)
i'm sooooo glad that wall is done ! :-*
we've got a big evergreen with about a 3 1/2 to 4 ft diameter base about 30-35 yards from the deck that i've thought about using , but i'm worried about a few thousand rounds taking off the bark and making it ugly . can a big tree like that be killed by pellets . the thought process is that the bark protects the tree and the pellets slowly knock off the bark in a area and the tree becoming susceptible to a disease or rotting ???? is that possible ?
If you like the tree I personally wouldn't shoot it up. I couldn't tell you for sure if it will kill it but can't do it any good.
tree becoming susceptible to a disease or rotting ???? is that possible ?
indeed ... it will happen over time ..............
Don't shoot the tree.
"the thought process is that the bark protects the tree and the pellets slowly knock off the bark in a area and the tree becoming susceptible to a disease or rotting ???? is that possible ?"
Yeah. Don't shoot a good live tree. :-[
10-4 on not shooting a tree i like :-*