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Im guessing your single, because no woman is going to allow that inside a house.
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My wife is fine with it.
I built a box out of thick particle board, with a base, two sides, and a back. It's about 14" wide and 14" deep and 16" tall.
I made simple channels in the front edge of the two sides by gluing strips of 1/4 x 1/4 wood. One channel holds a piece of masonite with a large oval hole cut in the middle. The channel in front of it holds a piece of cardboard.
The inside is packed with about 18" of newspapers and magazines compressed to fit into 14". The particle board top is secured with dowel rods, and has a binder clip screwed into the top front edge for holding targets.
I change the paper about once a year, and it's only shredded about halfway through. About five pounds of lead gets sifted out to go into the lead bucket.
I've used it on a few occasions to function test a S&W Victory .38 SPL and a 9mm P-38. Bullets only penetrated about 6" through the compressed paper. Yes, that's right, my box of truth is magically different from the official Box 'o' Truth.
One time I used it to function test a Savage rifle in .222 Remington that a friend gave me.
The round went completely through the packed newspaper/magazines, blew out a hole in the 3/4" particle board back, and made a half-inch deep divot in the basement brick wall behind it, narrowly missing an electrical conduit off the junction box. Well, that was stupid.
My basement range is only 18 ft. long, so 99% of the time it's used to shoot my Ruger Single Six .22 at one-inch target pasters stuck onto sheets of typing paper.
I use standard velocity target ammo to keep the noise down.