Bullet Traps and Target Range System Design

True Bullet Traps for Your Range System

The extreme requirements of a commercial—or military-grade bullet trap are paramount to the success of your indoor or outdoor live-fire range. They are key to ensuring safety, operational efficiency, and environmental responsibility across all shooting facility designs.

We offer a selection of bullet traps to meet your training needs, range design specifications, and firearm types—from handguns to high-powered rifles. Each trap is engineered and built on-site by MILO Live’s skilled professionals to consistently, reliably, and safely receive all calibers under all live-fire training conditions.

Our bullet traps are designed to simplify clearing procedures and support efficient range operations, giving instructors and range officers the ability to maintain safety protocols and smooth training flow without interrupting the pace of live-fire exercises.

All projectiles that enter the mouth of the trap are directed into the rear vertical cylindrical catch, which decelerates the bullet until it loses inertia and falls into a collection container beneath the trap body. No supplemental media—such as rubber, sand, or water—is used in this passive design, eliminating the need to sift, separate, or “mine” to recover spent rounds.

MILO Live’s newest, patent-pending product, the “Bullet Bank,” reduces operating costs while enhancing safety and environmental compliance. Designed specifically for outdoor ranges, the Bullet Bank captures all lead correctly placed downrange. Lead mitigation is built into the system, and recycling takes just minutes. EPA and OSHA lead contamination, mitigation, and liability become non-issues. This doesn’t just massively reduce maintenance costs and downtime. It also preserves the recovered metal’s maximum recycling value (compared to the “dirty” lead that results from sifting rounds from earth berms and sand). This system reduces EPA/OSHA liability, minimizes mitigation costs, and adds an extra revenue stream you can reinvest in your range.

Bullet Trap Specifications

Length: 95½ in. Height: 91½ in.

Width: 41¾ in.
Nominal, adjusted per range layout requirements

Maximum Velocity of Bullets: 3,600 FPS (Rifle Rated), 2,200 FPS (Pistol Rated)

Maximum Weight: 500 Grains

Permissible Bullets: All jacketed, semi, and non-jacketed rounds

Strictly Prohibited Bullets: Armor Piercing, Incendiary, and Steel Core

Thickness: 3/Sin. – l/2in. (Rifle), 1/4in. – 3/Sin. (Pistol)

Hardness: 450-510 Brinell (Rifle), 450-510 Brinell (Pistol)

Trap Features

The free-standing bullet traps require no building modification or structural support to be installed in your building. A flat concrete floor is all that is required. Because they are freestanding, they are a great outside solution to dirt berm backstops.

Modular in design, each trap is butted up to the next one and joined together with a knife-edge connector. Both the pistol and rifle traps are 95.5 inches in length. This smaller footprint will save you tens of thousands of dollars in wasted building space that other traps will require.

Our Bullet Trap Features:

• Free-standing modular design fits through a 3’0″ door for ease of installation and access
• Superior bullet containment
• Direct air filtration exhaust hook-up
• All impact plates at 30 degrees or less for minimal surface wear
• Low installation, maintenance, and collection costs
• Small footprint saves on initial building square feet costs
• Pistol, rifle, and .50 cal models available for various firearms and ammunition

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Durability and Easy Maintenance

Our bullet traps are developed to safely collect and contain all rounds fired downrange, enabling the removal and disposal of lead and other materials without human contact or environmental harm.

You are never reliant on another company to collect your lead, and you won’t suffer the downtime of having to close operations for lead to be mined. Calling your local recycler to come to pick up your lead and generate additional income becomes time-efficient and simple.

All surfaces that come in contact with the fired bullets are all hardened AR plate and specially designed angles so as not to put additional wear on the plate. No standard steels are used for these contact surfaces.

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Vertically Designed

Along with the advantage of gravity to slow and collect the bullets, our unique vertical design system allows for a significant mating and connection to the two inside walls of your range envelope that houses the traps. This vertical system is far superior to horizontal designs when it comes to containing rounds that strike these inside walls and keep bullets from getting around the trap and striking the rear wall.

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Bullet Traps Exhaust Port

Another unique feature of our bullet traps is the exhaust port on top of the rear cylindrical bullet collector portion. The exhaust port allows you to connect to your existing air filtration system to collect any free-born air particulate. This creates a negative pressure and helps prevent the accumulation of lead dust and other light particulates.

A good percentage of rounds fired in most indoor ranges strike the floor or ceiling baffles before even making it to the trap. This initial contact will start to deform and degrade the bullet, and air lead particulate can be created before entering the bullet trap itself. This is why your ventilation and exhaust systems are vital in conjunction with your bullet trap system to create and provide a clean and safe environment for the shooter, range instructor, and maintenance personnel.

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Granular Rubber Trap

The granular rubber trap is a ballistic containment designed for tactical fire from varying angles, and advanced tactics as a shooter moves downrange. While this rubber trap requires a bit more maintenance, it encapsulates the bullets whole. The fired round’s energy is dissipated through the disbursement of energy throughout the piled rubber media and then slowly, over time and with agitation from other rounds, work their way down onto bedplates to be mined out at a later date during regular preventative maintenance intervals. These systems can be utilized indoors or outdoors and can be made in widths from 4’ to 100’+ in width.

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Bullet Traps to Fit Your Shooting Range Needs

We understand that every range project is unique in size and requirements, and all circumstances must be considered when selecting the appropriate system and components. Contact us today and allow us to put our expertise to work for you. Whether you are looking for military, law enforcement, commercial, or private range target systems, we will work with you to deliver the best product to fit your specific needs.

Financing Available
We understand that investing in training systems and range equipment can be a significant commitment. That’s why we offer flexible financing solutions through trusted third-party partners.

Whether you’re a government agency, department, or private organization, financing helps you move forward without delay and stay within budget. Apply for Financing