Winter shooting backdrop
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Holton KS USA
Posts: 124
Winter shooting backdrop
Anyone have any great ideas for making an indoor backdrop for shooting inside when it' s cold? I thought about using rigid insulations sheets (6 deep) - what is everyone else doing? I iwll be setting up in my basement and would like to avoid and patchwork
Thanks
Mike
Thanks
Mike
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toledo Ohio USA
Posts: 394
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
All I can really do is take five foot shots at a burly deadstop to keep muscles toned. Ain' t enough room for longer shots. Before I moved I shot in the basement. The target generally stopped them and I didn' t have to worry about anything else. I shot at a 3d deer and had a tuff block above it and a box full of newspaper under it and the 3d target' s box filled with a blanket to the right of it as security.
Brandan
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cibolo, TX
Posts: 205
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
I have a 10-15 yard range set up in my garage. I have a 3 sections of 1 1/2" polystyrene insulation backed by a 3/4" sheet of plywood then use an " Arrow Brake" bag target to shoot at. So far it has worked great.
One other bonus it that my kids use the same setup to shoot their BB guns.
One other bonus it that my kids use the same setup to shoot their BB guns.
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Posts: 15,296
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
BCY offers backstop material, but it' s a little pricey. If anyone needs it, I can help--beats paying retail at least. Old carpet, hung loosely (nap out) works pretty good also.
Chad
Chad
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Penhook Virginia
Posts: 446
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
Hey CT Bowhunter, you just got to be tough or a little touched like me[&:]. I put on the gloves and a hooded sweat shirt and hit the yard. The last ice storm, I was shooting with ice and snow coming down. My wife looked out the window and just shook her head. When I finally went inside she said " your really bored aren' t you" . I just have to go shoot a little when the bows start calling me[:-] Don
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: egypt
Posts: 1,994
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
We dont shoot to much at the excelesior up here mainly due to heads or hole shafts (if alum) freezing in the bails.
So I picked up a burlap bag for a whopping 3 bucks, almost 50 gallon size. Filled it full of the feed stores trash shrink wrap (clear cellophane they use to secure pallet items with during shipping, any company that has stuff coming in on pallets should have it free). Stuffed it, put it on 2 rubber maids, and wammo, the cheapest longest lasting target I have had to own for 3 bucks and a tad bit of gas. If you get the smaller bags, get 2, put one in front of the other. Dont shoot at the same hole over and over again at 5 steps with only the one smaller bag or you' ll be patching holes in the wall, you can take that to the bank[&:] I hunt it up in a closet for awhile with a saftey harness strap. Took some parachute cord, tied the burlap off with it and made a loop, then tied on using that loop. We could shut the door when company came and no one would know the diff!
not bad for living in a 3bedroom condo eh [8D]
So I picked up a burlap bag for a whopping 3 bucks, almost 50 gallon size. Filled it full of the feed stores trash shrink wrap (clear cellophane they use to secure pallet items with during shipping, any company that has stuff coming in on pallets should have it free). Stuffed it, put it on 2 rubber maids, and wammo, the cheapest longest lasting target I have had to own for 3 bucks and a tad bit of gas. If you get the smaller bags, get 2, put one in front of the other. Dont shoot at the same hole over and over again at 5 steps with only the one smaller bag or you' ll be patching holes in the wall, you can take that to the bank[&:] I hunt it up in a closet for awhile with a saftey harness strap. Took some parachute cord, tied the burlap off with it and made a loop, then tied on using that loop. We could shut the door when company came and no one would know the diff!
not bad for living in a 3bedroom condo eh [8D]
#10
RE: Winter shooting backdrop
Hey lilhunter what happen if by chance you miss and the arrow goes through the sheetrock and someone is in the next room that you do know about, or it goes through the next wall also? Hope its a brick exterior wall you have as a backstop. Just a thought to ponder.