Bullet trap
A bullet trap (also bullet trap ) is generally a device on the shooting range that safely catches bullets penetrating or missing the target, often by means of a sand or earth wall. In the hunter's language , terrain that can safely intercept a projectile when shooting is called natural bullet trap .
The height of a military bullet trap is around five to ten meters. The side facing the shooter is kept steep so that the bullets do not come back as ricochets (not to be confused with unstabilized tumbling bullets, the ricochets ) or go further in any other way. Special devices, such as wooden blocks, should make it easier for the projectiles to get stuck in the bullet trap than is the case with ball traps made of earth.
More modern ammunition with deformation effects leads to the destruction of conventional bullet traps. These are therefore often set up as a chain bullet trap, consisting of a multi-layer chain curtain with a low installation depth. Using them can lead to increased metal dust concentrations in the room air, especially lead .
Brick bullet trap with sand walls
Earth bullet trap on a 300 m shooting range
Shooting range with rear and side bullet traps as well as high screen
View of two deer from the high seat - when shooting one of the two, a natural bullet trap would be guaranteed due to the acute angle of fire from the high seat
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bullet trap. In: Duden. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Julia Numßen: Manual hunter language . Gräfe Und Unzer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8354-6241-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 15, 2019] without page numbers).
- ↑ Gerhard Ott, Ulrich Wurster: Exposure to hazardous substances in the air of an indoor shooting range with a new type of chain bullet trap. In: Hazardous substances - cleanliness. Air . 63, No. 1/2, 2003, ISSN 0949-8036 , pp. 35-40.