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rovrman
I want to be able to test fire my guns in my garage. I was thinking of making firing drum like we had in the military. Barrel tilted about 45 degrees filled with sand. Anyone have any suggestions?
Joe

french people don't speak german, Thank my dad for that!!
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  • 1KYDSTR
    Are you in an area where the gendarmes won't crack you over the head for that one? Sound will normally be one of the primary, mitigating circumstances.

    "When I cease learning...I'm dead"(Me)
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  • rovrman
    Sound will not be a problem

    french people don't speak german, Thank my dad for that!!
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  • bobski
    take 55 gal drum, fill with sand. weld or band on the top lid. cut a 4 inch hole in center. done. marines and navy armorers do this for a safe aim when clearing guns. just make sure you shoot straight and not to the side or it may come out the side. have you considered a commercial table top snail bullet trap for gunsmiths?

    former air operations officer SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 2. former navy skeet team, former navy rifle/pistol team member. co-owner skeetmaster tubes inc.. owner/operator professional shooting instruction. NRA certified instructor.
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  • Txs
    We did what bobski described, but sunk a can about the size of a large coffee can into the lid of the drum. This can had thin rubber sheeting glued to the inside to protect the finish of the weapons. This whole thing was then mounted on a frame about belly high and stationed near the armory window for people to clear their weapons prior to turning them in.
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  • v35
    A friend had a used up hot water heater partially filled with sand and set at about 45 degrees from the horizontal. There was little noise but a bit of dust came back at you and the gun . The muzzle was placed into the opening when firing
    This was in a heavily populated town.
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  • mjclothiers
    Could a person spray water over the top to keep it from spraying back?
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  • RadCat
    In my old gunsmithing shop I had a similar contraption, but kept it vertical. It had a removable cover with a 12"long by 8" wide "padded" cylinder/shooting port welded on. It was filled three quarters with very coarse sand and gravel, above which it was covered with several burlap sacks. The burlap absorbed a lot of the sound and muzzle blast and eliminated the sand and muzzle blow back into the gun. You did not want the sand and lead mix blowing back into a newly refinished gun while test firing it. After several thousand rounds, the cover band was removed, the lead sifted out, and new burlap installed.
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