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Longstreet - a few points off the top of my head:
1. Wood is used because it is replaceable if damaged and doesn't cause ricochetes. Do not put metal guards over your wooden frame. Do not construct the wooden frame so that it obscures the bullet trap. You're inviting more misses if you can't clearly identify the "target zone".
2. Your cardboard backer will last longer if you cut holes in the cardboard under the "bulls".
3. Use .22 Longs. If you're using .22 LR, stick with SV (standard velocity). Don't use Mini-mags or similar. You're shooting a bolt gun, with care during the feeding cycle it'll handle anything, even shorts. You don't need "magnum" rounds for target practice.
4. Do not exceed 10 meters unless you're using optics. That's all that bullet trap was intended for.
5. At this stage you'll probably get more value out of practicing with an air rifle - it's a lot more difficult (NTM safer and cheaper) than you think.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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