[Pancho]

I go very low tech and tape a target to a cardboard box. I am not concerned about recovering BB's though. I have no plans on reusing them in my AEG's

[azsarge]

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<br />Anyone have a suggestion for a decent sized airsoft target that I can shoot at in my back yard?  All I've seen are the sticky ones and they look pretty small.  I'm looking for something at least 19" or so square that will also recover my BBs.

Thanks
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Surely you weren't planning on re-using BB's!  Maybe just so theres no mess?  In that case, a cardboard box with a towel inside works just fine and dandy.  The best practice is with "moving" targets *hint*hint*.  Shooting in your back yard is just a great way to waste BB's and find out how strange your neighbors are.

[Pancho]

That works too

[Neepster]

Ok, thanks.  Actually I was going to recover my springer pistol BBs and reuse those, but not my AEG BBs....  My AEG BBs I just don't want lying around for the dog to eat

[Trashcan]

electrical tape and printer paper work pretty good...

[Raven1]

I have always found that the neighbors yard never needs policing of bb's once I am done target practicing! HA (Hate that old bastard!)  Boxes with old rags or clothing work best, when I train in the back yard or indoors, old cereal boxes with old clothing inside works well. Then when they are to filled with holes into the recycle can they go bb's and all,,,

[leakingpen]

so airsoft bbs can be recycled in the blue bins?  thats good to know.

for my springer i have a small cardboard box on its side, with a printed target I made in powerpoint taped on, and a towel in the back.  Just remember to tape the target on the bottom of the box, to prevent the bbs from rolling out.

once I get an aeg, I was thinking of using some of the round frames used in crosstitch and securing paper in those and hanging them at different heights around my backyard, but those arent going to retain the bbs.

[azsarge]

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<br />so airsoft bbs can be recycled in the blue bins?  thats good to know.

for my springer i have a small cardboard box on its side, with a printed target I made in powerpoint taped on, and a towel in the back.  Just remember to tape the target on the bottom of the box, to prevent the bbs from rolling out.

once I get an aeg, I was thinking of using some of the round frames used in crosstitch and securing paper in those and hanging them at different heights around my backyard, but those arent going to retain the bbs.

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Good idea.  You can keep the bb's in by taping a plastic bag to the back.  Use a few layers of target material though, so the BB's don't punch through the plastic.

[leakingpen]

maybe some cloth, also.  but the idea with the hanging targets is that they'll spin free, so be double sided.

[Neepster]

Thanks for the tips guys.  I made myself a target out of an old cardboard box.  I cut the flaps off of one end and used masking tape to hang them from the top near the back of the box to act as floating back stops.  Then I hung some carefully folded paper towels (blue raglike things from Home Depot, at 3-4 layers) from the ceiling of the box with tape as well, a little in front of cardboard pieces.  Then I hang the target in front of the blue towels, also taped to the ceiling of the box.  

Oh yeah, I also folded the front bottom flap in at an angle to help deflect BBs back into the box after they go through the target and rebound from the towels.    Seems to work pretty well.  At least it kept in about 90% of the BBs.  It is sort of a copy of an old Daisy BB target box I used to have as a kid, although that one used a rubber mat hanging from the inside as the inertial dampener instead of layers of paper towels and cardboard.

I guess I just thought those Daisy type targets must still be around, but now that I've made my own, I am pretty happy with it.

[azsarge]

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<br />Thanks for the tips guys.  I made myself a target out of an old cardboard box.  I cut the flaps off of one end and used masking tape to hang them from the top near the back of the box to act as floating back stops.  Then I hung some carefully folded paper towels (blue raglike things from Home Depot, at 3-4 layers) from the ceiling of the box with tape as well, a little in front of cardboard pieces.  Then I hang the target in front of the blue towels, also taped to the ceiling of the box.  

Oh yeah, I also folded the front bottom flap in at an angle to help deflect BBs back into the box after they go through the target and rebound from the towels.    Seems to work pretty well.  At least it kept in about 90% of the BBs.  It is sort of a copy of an old Daisy BB target box I used to have as a kid, although that one used a rubber mat hanging from the inside as the inertial dampener instead of layers of paper towels and cardboard.

I guess I just thought those Daisy type targets must still be around, but now that I've made my own, I am pretty happy with it.


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I love how you make shooting BB's into an oldass box sound so HI-TEC!  You are right at home on these boards, buddy.  

"<i>Inertial dampener</i>."  A natural!

edit: added thumbs-up.

[Trashcan]

lol, I set up a small obstacle course around my house kuz I have nobody to shoot... I just used paper targets taped up on walls instead of boxes, so I have around 3000 BBs in the grass in my yard. My mom got, how you say, pissed...

[Neepster]

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I love how you make shooting BB's into an oldass box sound so HI-TEC!  You are right at home on these boards, buddy.  

"<i>Inertial dampener</i>."  A natural!
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 I'm an engineer in real life, so I guess it is just too hard to shut off my techno-speak

[leakingpen]

cool.  what flavor?

[Neepster]

Materials engineer... polymers, metals, ceramics, etc...