Skywalker Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 By the way, how are those plates working out? The plates work pretty good: haven't experienced any REF (lol) so far. I really like the idea, however, I'd like to figure out a way to get the BB to just drop off the plate so I could collect them in something underneath. That's something I haven't had the time to work out, but I will in the future. Definitely a nice feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 In my experience, BB's zing off UHMW plates with pretty good speed (one smacking me in the forehead), so catching them may take some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtremeShot Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 It may not work on a plate that you are trying to knock over, however, I was thinking of some sort of foam material that would take the impact. Have you seen those bed matresses that conform to your body shape then rebound when you get up? ...that would make some neat material for a regular target. When you shoot it, the BB would cause a dent but it would simply drop straight down after impact and not ricoche. After a few seconds, the dent would disappear. Darren In my experience, BB's zing off UHMW plates with pretty good speed (one smacking me in the forehead), so catching them may take some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlePriest Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) Hey everyone. I was pointed to this thread, and this forum, by an acquaintance of mine that shoots IPSC. (oops, he posted just above me ) He came to me through my work at AirsoftForum.com asking my advice for a an airsoft race gun for home practice. I administrate the forum at Airsoft Forum, and own my own site http://www.airsoftspecialists.com Anyway, I have an airsoft race system called TAPSS or "Tactical Airsoft Pistol Speed Shooting" that I have held a few sponsored events for in Joliet, IL. It's a simple timed race system, designed as a training aid for airsoft pistol combat. Anyway... enough background. I have some suggestions for your poppers and plate racks. You have been having some ricochet issues, which is always going to happen when shooting plastic bbs against anything hard. But you can limit the amount of ricochet, if you use a material I use in my bb traps (which you can find instructions for in the article linked above) If you can make replaceable faces for your plates, out of owens corning pink home insulation foam... it may significantly reduce the amount of ricochet. And depending on how thick you make them, they may actually CATCH the bbs on the plates. My bb traps use 3/4 inch thick owens corning pink insulating foam..and a normal gas blowback pistol will put a bb through the one layer of foam, and get caught in the second. But with a hard backing behind (your plate) it may just provide enough slow down, to prevent ricochet, or catch the bb in the foam on the plate. And on the chance that you MISS the plate (GASP, surely not!) You may even want to just put a sheet of insulating foam behind your plate rack. Anywhoo, here is a direct link to the instructions for my bb traps... scroll down and you can see pictures of how the bbs react to the foam. http://airsoftspecialists.com/articles/tar...targettraps.htm Hope I helped Caelyn Edited June 22, 2006 by BattlePriest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Thanks for the info. I tried a large number of paddings/insulators on my poppers and it was very hard to find one that was useful-- anything effective was too thick and anything thin either got perforated or didn't stop the reflections much. I'll check those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlePriest Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Thanks for the info. I tried a large number of paddings/insulators on my poppers and it was very hard to find one that was useful-- anything effective was too thick and anything thin either got perforated or didn't stop the reflections much. I'll check those out. No Prob... I just had another idea... but havent tested it. Foam Core Board. You know that stuff that they sell at art stores, or office max (they use it for presentation posters and stuff where I work) Its like 3/8 inch thick, and has cardstock like paper on both sides of it. Again.. it would have to be a consumbable... but it may work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 Caelyn, thanks for chiming in with such useful info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlePriest Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Caelyn,thanks for chiming in with such useful info! Hey my pleasure. I have a question for you folks. If you can forgive my IPSC ignorance. While it WAS bb IPSC videos from Hong Kong that peaked my interest in Practical Shooting. I have never actually done any form of true IPSC. When I first started with bb practical shooting, I was closer to IDPA, then of course I made my own morph of that, in TAPSS. SO, the question is, in IPSC, what are the most common ranges to target? After seeing these plate carriers, I am getting interested in bbIPSC again. I suppose I should just go find the IPSC website though. The problem is, that bb IPSC competition web sites (IE where it is ONLY about bb IPSC, not just as a practice tool for real IPSC) are almost always in chinese or japanese. Ahh well anyway....Keep me updated and let me know if any of my ideas pan out for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 Several links and info at Global Village in the dedicated Airsoft Forum. Although there Airsoft is only listed as useful tool/discussion for personal training purposes (which is what I do, I don't shoot IPSC-style Airsoft competitions due to lack of any such organization/matches here in Italy) since it has no recognition from IPSC, you might get in contact with some UK or HK based people that might be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtremeShot Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Check out the links below. The classifier diagrams will show you the setups and distances. The second link has them all in one pdf. Classifier Webpage: http://www.uspsa.org/classifiers/index.html All Classifiers in PDF: http://www.uspsa.org/classifiers/NCCB%204th%20Edition.pdf Darren SO, the question is, in IPSC, what are the most common ranges to target? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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