Page 5 of 10 - Gamo Cone Pellet Trap, Collapsible Reviews

Small, easy set up works exactly as intended. Great for indoor practice. For the $, good buy.

Great for catching pellets, but...

Needs to be sturdier gauge of steel. BEWARE of RICOCHETING

As I am a serious air rifle shooter who enjoys competing, I purchased this trap to shoot at 10 meters with my wife's Weihrauch HW 30s air rifle. As the velocity is only 675 fps, I felt that this trap would be sufficient. WRONG! The gauge of steel is too light weight to effectively work on a continuous basis with flathead lead pellets. This trap needs to be stronger to be safe as we began getting ricochets after 100 shots due to the deflector becoming deformed. If you are a serious shooter, this is not a safe trap.

Great product! Easy to use. The supplied paper targets are easy to insert into the frame, provide nice visible holes with wadcutters, and I have no complaints!

nothing

On rare occasions a pellet will bounce back through the target. Stuffing some newspaper into the trap will prevent this 100% of the time.

Works well. Holds the Gamo and other targets very well. Price isn't bad.

Is a bit loud when the pellets hit. Just a thin strip of rubber glued to the outside of the back would completely quiet it down. I've modified mine in that fashion and it's very quiet now.

Only use .177 caliber. I tried .22 and even at 650 fps it tore the trap apart. I'm only using it with my 10 meter .177 which only shoots at 500 fps. The trap is more than fine for that. Don't know how it would stand up with the higher power PCP's and Springers.

Great trap for pistols and/or indoor shooting. Assembles and mounts easy. Bin at the back collects pellets and paper target punches. So far it's taken about 400 pellets from a Beeman P17 (410 FPS) and still going strong. Gamo targets slide in perfectly, are a good weight and inexpensive!

Maybe add a second mounting screw notch just to keep it straight.

Very sturdy, all metal construction. Comes with lots of Gamo refill papers. Easy to mount on a backing wall.

Would be nice if it was a little larger and deeper. Some pellets pop right out after hitting the target.

For the money, it's a good buy and will get lots of use.

Easy to put together and quick to set up for some shooting. The funnel shape and the collection 'bin' in the back is a great design and avoids shreds of lead from the pellets from laying around on the ground as a hazard.

The plates that shape the metal of the funnel itself needs to be reinforced. The metal needs to be a good 2-3mm thicker, especially the rearmost part of the plates. Optionally they need to be made of a different, stronger material.

Set this kit up @ 12 meters (roughly 35-40 feet). Shot at it with an HW97K using Diana Magnum pellets. After about 100 shots the pellets had almost penetrated the back of the right hand plate. Some of the pellets had embedded themselves in the material, so repeated pellets hit the old pellets. Just a matter of time until the pellets make a hole, and then the pellet trap is useless since shots will (or at least risk) going straight through and into the background.

Bottom line - after seeing the results after just 100 pellets I can not advise anyone to buy this product if they have a powerful air rifle. It may be good for air pistols or lower powered air rifles, optionally placed at longer ranges so the more powerful air rifles aren't able to dent/dig into the material due to lowered impact power due to distance.

ease of setup but it didnt last but maybe 3-4 days before we started shooting threw the back.

make it with some thicker metal

not a good buy unless your using it out past 25 yards

Size, price.

Build quality could be better. Lot's better. The slanted stop needs to be thicker or reinforced.

I've put less than a hundred pellets into it, and already the slanted stop that guides pellets into the hopper is bent out of shape. Pellets are hitting at 500 fps, half what the trap is rated for, and already it's starting to fail? When I bend the stop back into place, the metal will fatigue more. It's a closed loop of destruction and failure will come sooner than later. I'm going to make a wedge of wood to hold the stop in place, but really, why does the customer have to fix/modify the product to keep it working, especially after so short a time? When this dies, I'll go to the local metal fabricator and have them make me another, more robust trap. It will probably cost a bit more, but at least I'll be able to put thousands of rounds into it and still pass it on to my descendants!

Easily set up for backyard, or indoor target shooting. Would not recommend for velocities above 500fps, as you will shorten the useful life of this trap, but performs great with most .177 air pistols.

Increase the strength of the deflector in the back of the cone. Assembly, although not difficult, the instructions could be more precise.

Make certain to ONLY HAND TIGHTEN any and all screws until the trap is assembled. It will all fall correctly into place, and at this point fully tighten all screws. Must admit, I learned this the hard way. People with 1377's, a couple or three pumps are sufficient for target shooting. For you air rifle shooters, get a trap that is better constructed. You'll easily destroy this one within a short period of time due to too much muzzle velocity. Another lesson learned the hard way.