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Shooting airsoft BB's in the backyard is the funnest thing to do in the world. Ok, maybe there are funner things, but we like shooting BB's in the backyard. After firing off a few thousand white BB's rounds in the backyard, you'll see them everywhere. And cleaning up is not that much fun. A BB target trap is easy to build to reduce your clean up and keeps BB's from the rest of your backyard.
To build a BB target trap, you just need a cardboard box, some paper, some foam, some tape, and a target. Basically you just need some things around your house.
With the cardboard box, fold all of the flaps to the inside (see photo below). That creates inherit trap to prevent BB's from rolling out.
Now put the foam at the bottom of the cardboard box. That prevents the BB's from penetrating the back of the box. It also prevents BB's from rebounding forward to the front of the box, where it may fly out.
Finally, place paper on top of the foam. You can use paper from shipments (see photo below). The paper provides multi-layer penetration reduces the BB speed and traps the BB from coming out of the trap.
Once you've stuffed the box, it's time to attach your target. Paper target will do. You can use scratch paper or old paper printout. It is sufficient as long as there are some marking that you can use for target practice. My kids like to draw aliens and monsters for me to shoot. Look for sources all around you.
The cardboard box we used is about the same side as a standard sheet of paper (see photo above). We just put tape on the top and bottom of the paper and taped it to the box. BB's fly though the paper target and is captured by the buffer within the box.
When you are done, you can easily dump the plastic BB's out of the box and into the recycle bin. The box is cheap and easy enough to make, so you can even dump the entire box into the trash and make another one.
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