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  • Pneumagger
    I like 'Mags.

    • Jun 2006
    • 3556

    #16
    Go find a local grocery store or other local accessable industrial place and get a friend with a pickup. Behind the store you will find wooden palates. hey typically throw them away, and they make excellent speedball bunkers.

    Just stake them into the groud and hide behind them. Some pallates may not be 100% solid. Or just buy plywood sheets.

    Anything "airball" related will cost you about $100/bunker plus you will need a blower to fill them.

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    • wjr
      Registered User
      • Feb 2006
      • 995

      #17
      Originally posted by Pneumagger
      Go find a local grocery store or other local accessable industrial place and get a friend with a pickup. Behind the store you will find wooden palates. hey typically throw them away, and they make excellent speedball bunkers.

      Just stake them into the groud and hide behind them. Some pallates may not be 100% solid. Or just buy plywood sheets.

      Anything "airball" related will cost you about $100/bunker plus you will need a blower to fill them.
      There's one problem with that.

      Most wooden palates have gaps between the boards, thus not offering the best cover.

      If you can, try and find the palates the postal service uses. They're just a solid sheets of sturdy plastic and are a bit larger then your standard wooden palate. I've even seen several fields that use them.

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      • punkncat
        One foot less
        • Feb 2003
        • 5841

        #18
        Originally posted by Pneumagger
        Go find a local grocery store or other local accessable industrial place and get a friend with a pickup. Behind the store you will find wooden palates. hey typically throw them away, and they make excellent speedball bunkers.

        Just stake them into the groud and hide behind them. Some pallates may not be 100% solid. Or just buy plywood sheets.

        Anything "airball" related will cost you about $100/bunker plus you will need a blower to fill them.


        This is an excellent idea. Be sure that you ASK before taking anything. Its not uncommon to find spools behind electrical contractors as well. It is really easy to find the cheap shipping pallets, get more than you need and cannibalize some pallets for the wood to nail over the others and fill holes.
        We actually leave a few slots and holes in spots to make it easier both to be shot and shoot through. Our backyard games are strictly no bunkering and we prefer slightly weakened bases to accomidate it.

        Nice thing about the pallets and spools is that when you finally (or your parents) get tired of it, a good bonfire eliminates the bunkers.

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        • don miguel
          the legend
          • Sep 2006
          • 1141

          #19
          conor it's just an enclosed shooting range. Mike just got a chrono staqtion for xmas, we could use one of those snapcages for a chrono station at NSTAR. NO MORE FRERAKIN NIPPLES ON CORY'S HEAD! (huge inside joke don't even comment on it).

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          • Pneumagger
            I like 'Mags.

            • Jun 2006
            • 3556

            #20
            Dude... why don't you have DM fund the project?

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            • don miguel
              the legend
              • Sep 2006
              • 1141

              #21
              Originally posted by Pneumagger
              Dude... why don't you have DM fund the project?
              DM= poor white kid.

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              • Robbie
                Registered User
                • Sep 2002
                • 285

                #22
                go to a tile store and get pallets from them,,,, the gaps are a lot smaller maybe an inch,

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                • Pneumagger
                  I like 'Mags.

                  • Jun 2006
                  • 3556

                  #23
                  Originally posted by don miguel
                  DM= poor white kid. With PS3 and ss-25 and Micromag
                  Fixed...

                  I feel your pain.

                  I = poor white kid also

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                  • wjr
                    Registered User
                    • Feb 2006
                    • 995

                    #24
                    Originally posted by pneumagger
                    DM= poor white kid. With PS3 and ss-25 and Micromag
                    you forgot the HDTV.

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                    • Farnja
                      I like my battery brick
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 319

                      #25
                      If you live in the country, look for agriculture signs, advertising seed or something. Post 3 of those on the same sign posts they use and you'll get great, 6 ft. tall,3 foot wide bunkers for next to nothing. Very syurdy, but easy to take up and down, I had a field just like this in my sideyard for a few years...
                      JF...

                      Wanna Buy a nice Cocker? PM Me...

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