In our previous installment I outline experiences I have had with my duct seal filled pellet trap. It is indeed pretty silent, however there is difficulty in removing pellets from the duct seal and I’ve yet to come up with a reasonable method of recycling all that lead. Now that I have several big bore AirGuns I am chewing through a lot of lead.

I have also toyed with an Uber Silent pellet trap framed in wood and filed with rubber mulch. This works but given the size and weight of this thing, once placed I am unlikely to want to move it. I haven’t used it all that much and so haven’t actually tried to retrieve the lead, so I’m not sure how easy it will be. I imagine I can dump the whole mess into a tub of water with the lead dropping to the bottom and the rubber floating. We’ll just have to see.

Fast forward to the new idea.

WAX! Yep, I had a brain fart. What if I had a metal container filled with melted candle wax? I’d shoot and shoot until the surface got too broken up, then put this container in pot of hot water, melt the wax and then easily strain out the lead bits which I can then melt down and mold into more pellets. I like the idea. So up next is to try to make this happen.

I ordered up a bunch of used and old funky candles from a place on the internets called All Montana. These good folks sold me the wax at a good price though it required a lot of melting, and straining since the candles were in their cheesy Christmas, Easter and other holiday forms. Lot of Santy Claus Candles. Ugh.