I have been shooting at my local 3-D range with my ICS carbons and am having trouble getting the arrows out of the targets. Anyone have any good sugjestions? I thought they removed easy.

put soap on the first 8" or so of the arrow each time
install target easy pull tips on
Gregg

EZ Pull points make a huge difference & like c4extrem said the soap really helps too. I have the best luck with Ivory soap for some reason.

yep, the soap does a good job, but you don't need to caot but the first three inches. Don't foget, you still gotta have something to get hold of that isn't greasy.

Capt Ray, I don't know where you got the idea they pulled easy. Carbons have always been notorious for getting welded into targets and needing two grown men and a strong mule to pull them out. A good arrow puller like a gorilla grip and some kind of lube is absolutely needed.

I've got a horribly bad back and have hurt myself several times trying to pull those blasted carbons out of targets. And that's #2 on my list of why I have gone back to, and stuck with, aluminum arrows.

I use armor all in a homemade lube tube. I'll try and get a pic on here tommorow. It really helps out.

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I tried the soap on some Beamans camo shafts. I took steel wool and got everything off them and put the soap on. They were almost impossible to pull out. My target is made of black board and the soap made the shafts stick to the media of the board. The Beaman camo shafts are the absolute worst shafts I have ever shot. The finish will stick to almost anything and comes off like paint when scraping vanes off. The shafts shoot good but I kind of hope for a miss on every shot so i can get rid of these things<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> Don

Don, you're not shooting at black Celotex are you? The black coating on that stuff is nasty and will bond to any arrow you shoot into it, no matter what it's made of or what kind of finish it has. If you're using Celotex, you need the more expensive and harder to find uncoated type.

Our club just took all our Celotex butts off the practice range. We couldn't find the correct stuff to rebuild them, so we replaced them with Morrell outdoor range bags.