But after I emptied the first magazine I noticed it was eerily quiet. I didn’t pay that much attention to the yelling and splashing and other sounds coming from over there when I started firing. In the summertime, particularly on weekends, it gets really noisy. There’s a housing development directly across the road from my house and for whatever reason they put the swimming pool in the front, next to the road. None of them cared so I loaded up my Ruger Mark III and opened fire. I’ve been tempted to fire a 9mm at it to see if it would stop that, but I really don’t want to risk putting a hole that size in my fence in case it doesn’t.īefore I used it the first time, I notified the neighbors next to and behind me that I would be firing a pistol in my back yard and not to be alarmed. So far I’ve only missed the target twice, and while it made a nice round entrance hole on the front side, there’s no indication on the backside that any fragment of a bullet made its way though the foot of rubber mulch. I use a steel bullet trap that’s rated for. We figured that with the weight of the wood and the mulch it clocks in at around 350 pounds.
Then we screwed the top down, further compressing the mulch. Before we put the top on it, we put it into place on the concrete blocks, popped a few screws through to the fence post behind it for good measure, and filled it with as much rubber mulch as we could cram into it, packing it down as much as possible. It’s nothing more than shredded tires dyed some neutral color.
The secret to the “bullet proofing” is rubber mulch, the same stuff used on playgrounds to make sure sweetums doesn’t get a boo-boo when he falls off the swing. It’s all held together with 3½” deck screws. The shelf on the front is also made from 2×12’s. There’s also a vertical 2×12 stud inside, dividing the interior into halves and providing extra support for the front and back.
The front and back are a 4’x4’x1/2″ panels cut from a standard 4’x8′ sheet of pressure-treated plywood. The backstop is a box made from pressure-treated wood. So we constructed a backstop that could easily stop a stray. She has no problem with me firing toward the woods but I really wanted to be sure that the majority of whatever I fired stayed on my side of the property line. The Eleven Acre Wood forms the southern boundary of my property and my neighbor’s house is on the other side of the woods.
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