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WildBill wrote:When I was a kid, my dad set up a firing range in the basement of our house. He bought a "Detroit Bullet Trap." It may have been strong enough for shooting .38 Special [lead bullets], but we only shot .22LR. It worked out pretty well. We wouldn't shoot unless the house was empty. This was in the city limits, but at the time there probably weren't any laws against it.

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We had a 50 foot range in our basement, with a Detroit Bullet Trap, and we found out that it would not take a .38SPL, it got a big dent in the bottom steel and it you hit that spot with a .22LR it splattered almost back to the firing line. Before we got the bullet trap we just fired into logs, until my mother shot herself in the chest with a .22LR that bounced off an oak log. It didn't penetrate, but the bruise was amazing. Our house was out in the boonies, but occasionally the nearest neighbor would comment about the loud hammering, which only happened if we had the basement windows open.