Best bang for the "Buck" on 3D target?
05-14-2014, 08:25 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 12
Best bang for the "Buck" on 3D target?
I've been a gun girl most of my life aside from a brief time shooting a recurve at summer camp one year looong ago. But...I purchased my new bow a week ago and I'm already hooked.
We are gearing up for the ultimate goal of deer hunting during the bow season this fall. (I'll still pull out my .243 during modern gun of course...but variety is the spice as they say!)
We have a block and standard bag target for practice...but we want to buy a 3D deer target. There are many out there from the Glendel Buck down to some cheapies. If you were going to purchase one today...which one is a decent target for the money? We don't need the top of the line fancy...but we don't want to buy crap that falls apart or is impossible to pull the arrows out of either.
** for those that are interested I bought a Matthews Mission Menace. (decent starter and light weight) Draw length of 28" and currently drawing at 36#...we will be turning that up with time/practice. I was fitted and my bow tuned/set up by John Thompson at Mount George Archery in Arkansas. He knows his stuff and literally spent hours with me to get me started right.**
We are gearing up for the ultimate goal of deer hunting during the bow season this fall. (I'll still pull out my .243 during modern gun of course...but variety is the spice as they say!)
We have a block and standard bag target for practice...but we want to buy a 3D deer target. There are many out there from the Glendel Buck down to some cheapies. If you were going to purchase one today...which one is a decent target for the money? We don't need the top of the line fancy...but we don't want to buy crap that falls apart or is impossible to pull the arrows out of either.
** for those that are interested I bought a Matthews Mission Menace. (decent starter and light weight) Draw length of 28" and currently drawing at 36#...we will be turning that up with time/practice. I was fitted and my bow tuned/set up by John Thompson at Mount George Archery in Arkansas. He knows his stuff and literally spent hours with me to get me started right.**
05-15-2014, 01:30 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,902
I've owned a couple different brands, and have shot many different brands at ranges around the country.
Glendel and Rinehart are the only ones worth buying. The Glendels are my preference for deer targets, since the replacement cores are everywhere, and cheap. Rineharts are pretty proud of their targets and are a bit harder to pull arrows from, but they're great targets if you have the coin.
Especially if you have a higher powered bow! Delta?McKenzie's won't stop either of my bows at close ranges, and they are HARD to remove at longer ranges. A buddy of mine that I shoot with a lot has a Shooter brand, even his Diamond Outlaw has torn it up quickly, and has passed though with rage practice points. I have a cabelas coyote and turkey, durability on them sucks, cabelas had to replace the coyote after about a month of use, and again, arrow removal is difficult.
The standard glendel buck is the best value. You don't really get anything extra with the larger Full Rut buck. I have both, got the Full Rut at the price of the standard because the shop was out of inventory on the standard - nice of them to cut me the deal.
Glendel and Rinehart are the only ones worth buying. The Glendels are my preference for deer targets, since the replacement cores are everywhere, and cheap. Rineharts are pretty proud of their targets and are a bit harder to pull arrows from, but they're great targets if you have the coin.
Especially if you have a higher powered bow! Delta?McKenzie's won't stop either of my bows at close ranges, and they are HARD to remove at longer ranges. A buddy of mine that I shoot with a lot has a Shooter brand, even his Diamond Outlaw has torn it up quickly, and has passed though with rage practice points. I have a cabelas coyote and turkey, durability on them sucks, cabelas had to replace the coyote after about a month of use, and again, arrow removal is difficult.
The standard glendel buck is the best value. You don't really get anything extra with the larger Full Rut buck. I have both, got the Full Rut at the price of the standard because the shop was out of inventory on the standard - nice of them to cut me the deal.
