Does anyone sell these things? I've heard of submersible targets but I've never seen one. Even Sully's doesn't sell them. Any ideas?

Muzzy sells the targets if i'm not mistaken go to badtothebone.com under bowfishing and you should find what ya need.

Also, if you happen to have an old archery target lying around (or just buy a new one; Blueridge sells one 2'-square for $15.00), cut out a fish-shape, tie it to a rock or some other type of anchor, and put it in the water about 8"-16" under the surface. You can set it deeper or more shallow to practice realistically shooting fishin the water.


Just an (inexpensive) idea...

Have a bighead stuffed and mounted then do what Bowman said and have at it.....lol

Thanks everybody! I like the stuffed bighead idea the best.

I've never rigged up an actual bowfishing target for myself. I might, but haven't yet.

Where I usually go is a public area and therefore is visited regularly by idiots who think the world is their personal trash can. When I go out in the Spring and it's too early to find fish, I just practice on some sunken cans or bait containers. That's usually enough to knock the rust off from the Winter and get back into the swing of it.

I actually prefer to practice on live fish, since misses don't hurt anything.

Now ifI can just convince my wife to jump into the Des PlainesRiver and swim around witha foam carp target tied to her ankle. LOL.

Funny, we tried to get Bulz to do that with the foam buffalo targets at the Evergreen Bowfishing Booth.

He commented something about our shooting skill and declined. (he seemed more worried about us than the newbies trying out the bows)

The problem with the foambuffalo is that it floats (much like a big piece of foam... go figure ) I like using plastic water bottles. You can let water into them and then they'll sink a bit. You can tie them off to a weight so they can't escape.

At Evergreen we used motorized swimming fish in the stock tank. Those were really cool, but they won't survive a real fish arrow.

I agree Christine, those motorized swimming fish were a blast to shoot! altho shooting at Buzeye would have been more fun!
Considering how many misses we had that night we probably wouldn't have hit him anyway![8D]

Of course we would use blunts... but maybe not the kids bows... heh heh