Nitehawk Self Resetting Magnetic Air Rifle/Airsoft Knock Down Steel Shooting Target, Pellet Catcher

Why did you choose this product over others?: Best price for this item. Works well. Described as ‘magnetic’ but appears to be purely mechanical.

I've been shooting 10mm steel shot at one of these pretty much every day for a month and it works really well. Don't get me wrong -- mine now looks pretty ugly and dinged up, but the point is it's taken many hundreds of shots and still works great. Very useful bit of kit -- I'm definitely not quite as rubbish at shooting my slingshots as I was before owning this!

Good product except due to the design having a slanted back so pellet deflect upwards ,the tabs that stop the targets from falling down get hit by the deflected pellets and wedge themselves in the roof of the item. Hense the targets just flap about

Good for beginners

Much Smaller in size than I thought it would be, operation is rubbish and you shoot the first target and it stays up but as soon as you hit another target the first one drops down. I am a very good shot and hit target 95% on average so I know I’m not clipping the square re-set target by mistake. I even pushed up a target with my finger and as soon as I tried to push up a second target the first one dropped down. Don’t waste your money on this product, it’s not fit for purpose. Since writing this review I stripped off the top cover and checked out the alignment of the targets, all connecting rods etc and pushed up the targets slowly with my finger one at a time and they operate as they should. It appears that pushing the first target up quickly engages the first target with its holding mechanism, however the vibration of the second target being triggered causes the first target to dislodge and drop down again.

Good size but not very reliable, certainly not magnetic. Design is flawed, they are a good size to hit but just will not stay up, your lucky if more than one stays up. If you are lucky and get one to stay up when you hit the next one the first comes back down! Probably about a 5% chance of getting more than one to stay up at a time, disappointing.

Let's get one thing straight, there are NO magnets in the system as many people have said. The mechanics behind the operation of the target(s) is that when shot, it gets knocked back and up since its on a swivel. On the 'back and up' movement, it knocks a small metal arm out of the way to go past it, once past, the arm settles back down again and the target will fall back down and rest on the arm - thus staying up and hidden till it is reset. This sounds easy and simple in theory right? And if implemented right, it should work as expected. HOWEVER.. the 'resting' arms are flimsy, small and in some cases (like mine), just too short so the target will just fly past it and come back down without ever touching the arm let alone rest on it. This simply means that these targets (in my case 2 out of 4 - the small ones) will never ever be 'shot down' or hidden which makes the exercise a bit pointless. And as other reviewer may have mentioned, given the flimsy nature of the resting arms, even if you manage to shoot down and hide a target, on your next shot, chances are your target is going to fall down again with the vibration of the box due to the impact of the pellet. so in conclusion; the metal and construction of the item is fine, good weight and sturdy and will last ages but the actual operation of the thing leaves a lot to be desired. Might as well buy some card targets or print out a few, stick them on the front of this thing and use it as a pellet collector! Coz this is what i've resorted to since this is 50% useless.

Brought my son this for Christmas. They have placed it on the wall to shoot the pellet gun at. They like the fact you can shoot all the targets so they go up and hit the middle one to reload. It also collects the pellets in the bottom. It is smaller then I thought but the kids love it.