Howdy,
I have a RIKA World Champion Target Return System, am shooting a Steyr lp10 and RWS miesterkuglen pellets, I am getting a lot of lead fragments scattered around on the floor, seems like every 2nd or 3rd pellet makes it to the floor and not inside the trap. anybody got any ideas why, and how to stop this? seems to happen whether or not the pellet trap is full or not, (I tried to see if that made a difference, and it did not.) trap is fairly new, maybe 2K pellets shot at it.... thanks
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Jack Milchanowski
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Howdy,
before I started using the rika trap, I had been using a gehmann trap that has a spring loaded backstop plate, and the gehmann trap did not have the bouncing pellet problem. I was hoping for a solution to this problem. I tried wd40 on the plastic backboard of the rika, idea being that perhaps the pellet needed a more slippery surface to be directed into the trap. wd40 did not seem to help any...(rika trap has a 3/8 thick piece of what seems to be polyethylene or perhaps nylon, set at a 45 degree angle to direct the shot pellet into the trap catch tray.) I may try to adopt the spring loaded plate from the gehmann in an attempt to slow the pellet down.
before I started using the rika trap, I had been using a gehmann trap that has a spring loaded backstop plate, and the gehmann trap did not have the bouncing pellet problem. I was hoping for a solution to this problem. I tried wd40 on the plastic backboard of the rika, idea being that perhaps the pellet needed a more slippery surface to be directed into the trap. wd40 did not seem to help any...(rika trap has a 3/8 thick piece of what seems to be polyethylene or perhaps nylon, set at a 45 degree angle to direct the shot pellet into the trap catch tray.) I may try to adopt the spring loaded plate from the gehmann in an attempt to slow the pellet down.