RE: Basement Range
 

Its good to know someone is on my sideNOT WORTHY:D

Now I do have a place in my garage set up for using the chrony and paper tuning and things of that nature but when I am ready to do some shooting I head out doors.
but then agin I can understand wanting to stay warm while you shoot
we dont have as big of a problem with cold weather as much as you guys upin the frigid north

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I do like to get outdoors but for me it is not legal to shoot where I live. My option is to drive to the club and sometimes I don't have the time to get there, shoot and get back. So the basement allows me to shoot and work on strength and form. For you lucky enough to be able to shoot outdoors I that is great. My ideal home would have a deck elevated so that I could shoot from 15 feet up out to about 40 yards. That would be living in the right place.

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Don't listen to those naysayers! I have a 14 yard range in my basement and I can only shoot while sitting down. I feel it has helped alot in strengthening and release. Plus I have fun doing it. That's all the reason you need. I use a piece of plywood for those arrows that make it through the bag.

RE: Basement Range
 

I think, or at least I hope, he's worried about the arrows going thru the target....not missing it.

Come on guys.....

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I haven't set a range up in my basement yet, but my uncle had one a few years ago. He just put a target up, and then used 3 old blankets hanging from the ceiling. Leave enough of a gap in betweenthe blankets and the wall. The blankets absorb the energy from the arrow, saving your arrows and wall.

I will say however that I haven't shot at this set up in a few years and I wasn't shooting over 250fps when I did shoot at it.

RE: Basement Range
 

Between switching hands and switching eyes and going from a peep to a No Peep and learning to shoot with both eyes open, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a couple of times. :D

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That's my biggest concern. It would be a whole lot easier to stop an arrow from my old Browning than it would be from my new Bowtech. Thankfully, I'm not worried about missing at all with my Excalibur crossbow, because that would take one heck of a thick backstop. My wife might want to shoot it someday, though, and I'm not so sure about her steadiness... ;)

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I have had my release fire unexpectedly in the basement and ruined an $8 arrow. I would suggest getting a disguarded mattress and use it for a backstop . At 20 yards a target tip will easily penetrate a 3/4" sheet of plywood !

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There are lots of good reasons to practice at short ranges indoors. It's a great way to work on blind bale shooting, form, release technique, and most other aspects of achery.

I know people who print out 5-spot targets at half-size, which at 10 yards, gives you a fairly accurate way of practicing a spot game. I've done this for years (I can go back to 15 yards). It's how I learned to shoot a back-tension release, among other things. I used a large Morrell bag and fortunately, I never missed it (not a given when learning back-tension).

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what you should do is go to an indoor shooting range for the winter time the one i go to has a 40 yard shooting range. Because at 10 yards your not going to get any practice in because i have rarely seen a turkey come in at 10 yards with out being spooked by you drawing back your bow