Where can we get target holders like this?

[Rich]

We made our boxes out of ply and chipboard and lined the inside with steel sheet. 3mm was hammered by the pellets into a hollow shape and the corners lifted. Now we use a 5mm plate fixed to a thick timber substrate but spaced off the timber by a few mm using rubber grommets.

Initially we made the mistake of angling the striker plate at 45 degrees, thinking the pellet would bounce downwards. But because the pellets distort they don't behave that way, and the spent pellets tended to slide down the plate and smash holes in the base of the box at the back. We found that an angle of 70 to 80 degrees works much better.

[SuffolkRifle]

We made our boxes out of ply and chipboard and lined the inside with steel sheet. 3mm was hammered by the pellets into a hollow shape and the corners lifted. Now we use a 5mm plate fixed to a thick timber substrate but spaced off the timber by a few mm using rubber grommets.

Initially we made the mistake of angling the striker plate at 45 degrees, thinking the pellet would bounce downwards. But because the pellets distort they don't behave that way, and the spent pellets tended to slide down the plate and smash holes in the base of the box at the back. We found that an angle of 70 to 80 degrees works much better.

My back garden target holder is angled at 45 degrees (2mm sheet, backed by 25mm ply) - yes, the pellets tend to strike down, but cured the problem by sheathing the base as well (same system with 2mm sheet + 25mm ply), have also added a length of steel lintel along the back as a 'spent pellet collecting trough' not had any deformation on the sheet steel, and I use up to 'full' power rifles on it at 10 yards & upwards, though probably not as much as a club or range would.