Page 2 - Champion Heavy Duty Metal Trap Reviews

This target is very well made.Should take punishment for years.Bb's ,pellets 22 rimfire it handles them all.

Heavy. Stops everything fired into it.

Make a bigger one.

This product is excellent for sighting scopes and using for backyard plinking. Everything that is fired into it, stays.

Heavy duty and great design. I used the styrofoam triangles that came with it to help stabilize my targets. Shot both a .22 caliber air pistol and .25 caliber air rifle and was very impressed with how the pellets were trapped and ended up in bits and pieces inside the trap

Nothing...works great.

Get one for a solid trap making air gunning target shooting that much more fun and safe.

I've had one of these for about 20 years now, and it's absolutely the best deal on the market. It's relatively big, extremely well built (it'll stop a .22LR), and the fact that it rings like a bell means the welds are good. I've emptied the lead dust out of mine after every several thousand shots, but if you leave the dust in that helps deaden the ringing.

I wish there was a larger version. If there was a way to hang the target farther inside the opening, that would limit the amount of lead backsplash. If the back angle was more sloped, that would limit backsplash. If it came with some kind of sound-deadening compound or feature that would limit ringing.

I bought a 12x12" sheet of Dynamat (TM) at the local car audio shop not long after getting mine (again, this was 20 years ago). Slapping a big triangle of the stuff on each side of the trap made a big difference in deadening the ringing. These things really do "break in". After 20,000-30,000 rounds with air pistol and rifle mine doesn't spit lead back out much anymore and the weight of lead dust in the bottom completely deadens the ringing.

Sturdy, well-designed, effective pellet stop.

A dusting of post-impact pellet material does end up on the ground in front of the trap.

This thing is SOLID... made the delivery guy grunt! :) Seriously, this thing is built like a tank. The fit and finish are great. I like the included target hanger (a heavy sheet metal removable "slider" bracket and a good-sized binder clip). The target stays put in the breeze (flutters, sure, but doesn't slide sideways in the trap.)... some of the traps I was considering left it up to the user to come up with a way to secure the target. At about 20 pounds, it stays where you put it... no creeping trap here. I generally keep drilling the same nickel-sized area of the backplate, and the outside back shows no sign of bulge or even paint flaking. I'm definitely pleased with this trap, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a solid, durable piece of gear.

Noisy; rings like a bell when impacted. Glued a piece of industrial carpeting to the outside back, which quieted it down considerably (tryin' to keep the neighbors happy, y'know.) You could glue a piece onto the inside and it would probably work even better, but would have to be replaced fairly often, I imagine. Of more concern, is this trap tends to spit lead fragments. Little tiny flakes on my shooting bench from fifteen feet (sighting in my Diana Bandit at bird-feeder range... darned squirrels & chipmunks), and larger fragments a couple of feet in front of the trap. Not a huge concern given the puny energy of the rebounding fragments, but definitely something to be aware of when using it. Eye protection definitely recomended ('course, we all always wear eye protection, don't we?) And the carpet-on-the-inside thing I mentioned above would probably mitigate the backsplash problem to some degree as well.

I been using only .22 and .25 pellets at around 1000 FPS or less, and it holds up really well to this. Not sure how it would stand up to the larger-bore, higher-powered stuff some of you guys like to shoot. As stated in the product description this is a lead-only trap... none of those brass-tipped hunting rounds allowed here. It would probably handle them okay in low-to-mid-powered guns (strictly my opinion based on how well-built this thing is, not backed up by anything factual), but I'm just as sure that it would be a lot tougher on the trap if fed a lot of this stuff. Plus, the way it spits fragments, I'd be concerned about the harder, non-lead tip possibly bouncing out and coming back at me.

Very sturdy pellet trap. Metal is thick and very well made.

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Great portable all steel pellet trap. Yes it is heavyweight but thats what makes this product better than others. A little pricey, but you get what you pay for. The only mod that I have make was to put a thick piece of carpet on the back making it less noisy. I may put 1/2 inch of duct putty on the inside to stop any pellets from bouncing out. Otherwise I am very happy with this product. Shipping from PA was fast and the item was boxed very well.

Great pellet trap. I use as close as 20 feet & no ricochet from it.

It needs to be WAY BIGGER.

I've shoot into it with a Webley Scott VMX .22 Cal. Rifle & no problems at all. Great trap for indoor shooting.

What a beast! This is a heavy duty stop that reduces the .25 cal pellets from my Bullmaster PCP rifle to just thin smears of lead in the lower collection area. I've hit it from as close as 10 ft without any outward lumps or creases. To reduce the tremendous CLANG of each shot hitting it, and to allow use with BB's without fear of ricochet, I lined the inner slope surface with a 5 lb. block of "duct seal" putty. At about 3/4" thick minimum, the putty stops all rounds with very little noise. You must frequently stop and pick the pellets and BB's out of the putty to prevent rebound, but the combination of the stop and the added putty make for an unbeatable backstop!

Sell it with the putty as a bundle.

This is a solidly built trap. Its heavy and has a nice finish. I suspect it will last a long time.

Great heavy duty bullet trap. Has target arm that targets are clipped to.

very sturdy, well built.

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I got it for indoor shooting, kinda of loud. I am going to try hanging a piece of carpet behind target. Read on one of Pyramids blogs that this would slow pellet down and be a less noisy.

Heavy construction, will last a lifetime. Mine stays outside 24/7/365 unprotected. I'm considering buying a couple more to place in different locations on my property to shoot at different distances.

I added aluminum angled bars along the vertical front edges, attached with pop rivets, to hold 1/8 in. plywood backer for the paper target. Lots of lead splash back. I've shot a lot of .22 LR as well as pellet guns. The target holding clip is flimsy and won't last long. I use binder clips from the office supply store. Would be nice to have in a larger size. Some sound dampening would be good, but would add to the overall cost.

Generates lots of lead dust, I personally would not use inside unless you do something to contain the dust.

This trapisheavily constructed & does an excellent job stopping pellets from my .22 cal. Benjamin Mayhem. The box it comes in says it will handle standard non mag . 22 rifle ammo. It would be even better if it were a bit wider ...

Make it a bit larger

Place a cardboard or carpet backer on the target clip behind the target

Very heavy gauge steel. Stops .25 cal at 840 plus ft. per sec.with little to no noticeable damage.

Maybe I would round out the back and bottom corners with a deeper trap on the bottom.

I esp. like that I received the item I ordered unlike the rifle I ordered at the same time. It does what it is suppose to do and that is a good thing.

It's a bit heavy, but I guess you would need that for a .22.

Also, not fond of the sneaky discount practices. The 10% of they promise you does not include all items even though that promise does not contain the words "on selective items only". The 20% coupon they send you didn't even include this item and again no mention of item restriction.

I like that this trap is made well and seems to be made out of heavy enough steel. Time will tell.

I'm using a pellet rifle and boy is this trap loud when the pellets hit.

It's nice and hefty. Built strong and it stops the pellets.

Nothing-it works just fine

I cut cardboard to fit the opening and taped the targets to the cardboard. It keeps dust and paper debris in the trap and not on the floor.

This absoluty great for my indoor range. Get a lot of winter shooting, works great worth the money

SAFETY: knowing your pellet cannot penetrate your backboard. Peace Of Mind: knowing your neighbors cant complain Pride: knowing I'm shooting the right way

A little wider would be nice.

A MUST HAVE FOR .177 -.25 CALIBER