Save money with this target......
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Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Alexandria, Minnesota, USA
Posts: 1,079
Save money with this target......
I know this should be in the bowhunting forum but I am sure there are archery hunters here. I used to shoot at cardboard boxes with flatten cardboard stuffed in one box. It worked but pulling the arrows out was not fun. So I took the idea of those commercial targets that use layered foam pads and set my cardboard target on its side. So I was shooting at layered cardboard. It actually worked. It slowed down the arrow and pulling the arrows out is easy.
#3
RE: Save money with this target......
Actually, that idea is not really new. I know of several pro shops who used layers of cardboard compressed between two by fours and long set screws. As the target is shot up then they tighten the screws to get the thicker density again.
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gypsum KS USA
Posts: 1,289
RE: Save money with this target......
Our local range that I' ve been going to for years does that exact thing (indoor range). They' ve got 5 lanes in front of 5' x5' ' blocks' of compressed-stacked cardboard (they' ve got blocks on top with screw vises through them to keep everything in place). They get it from local businesses, it' s only like 18" thick, but it' ll stop an arrow in a big ol' hurry, even when I' m shooting 125#.
Only problem is that broadheads rip them up bad, so they aren' t allowed there. (I shoot expandable C.O.I' s, so I don' t have to worry about it though.)
Only problem is that broadheads rip them up bad, so they aren' t allowed there. (I shoot expandable C.O.I' s, so I don' t have to worry about it though.)
#8
RE: Save money with this target......
I managed an archery shop where we had the automatic lanes, Motorized, and we used the cardboard like that all the time. We would buy the cardboard from someone who cut it to size for us to fit our targets. We also had that backed up with bales of excelsior straw. If it got too shot out, you would need to replace the cardboard periodically. It works real nice !!