Easy Archery Target

[Weezin]

A local bow hunter showed me a simple/ cheap/ portable.target.
Four layers of blue cell board each 2" thick. I was sold, stopped at the building supply on the way home.
Bought 2 sheets of 2'x8' , cut each sheet in half and stack the four pieces and wrapped the top and bottom with duct tape.
Finished target is 2'x4'x8''and stops the arrows launched by my 50 lb. compound and 50 lb. double re curve.
...................................Dennis......... ..........

[clawhammerdan]

Can you use it for broadheads as well as field points? How easy are the arrows to remove from the target?

[HPshooter]

Clawhammerdan, I can't speak for Weezin, but I have done this also. It's just like shooting a 3D foam animal except for when the broadhead comes out the other side. Then it usually isn't that hard to line up the razors with the slits they made on the way through and to pull them back out. However, I have been know to pull them back till the rear of the razors hit the foam and use that as a broadhead wrench and simply unscrew the arrow shaft from the broadhead. Pull the shaft out and your broadhead is still held by the foam. Screw it back on and take your next shot.

BTW, I have the type of broadheads that have replaceable blades. I keep one whole set of blades to hunt with and another set to practice with. But even the practice blades need to be sharpened once in a while or they start tearing up the foam.

[1lifetolive]

A burlap bag ($2 ) loosely stuffed with old visqueen (sew the open end closed) suspended on a wire between 2 tree's will, last a season . I shoot a 53# long bow and rarely shoot through, with a heavier poundage compound I would suggest a more rounded nosed field point......Arrows pull out easily with 2 fingers

[PK.]

We used to take a few boxes around to construction sites looking for those guys spraying the foam insulation. Five bucks and we'd have pretty good targets. I don't know how popular that stuff is anymore though.

[Catalpa]

I saw the sign on TSC said the new lawn tractors were in...if you're looking for a cheap archery target, stop in. Last year after they got the tractors, I found heavy styrofoam blocks out at the dumpster. These blocks are each about the size of a regular cinder block, and I guess they were used as part of the packaging on the tractors. I duct-taped nine of them together into a dandy free heavy duty archery target. I can even pin burlap targets to the front of it.

Dumpster diving strikes again! ;)

[rAcErRicK]

I've also filled a cardboard box with a million plastic shopping bags too.

[johnjmw]

My brother from Columbus gave me a great one. An old seed bag filled with couch cushion fiber fill stuffed tight then tied closed. acts like Kevlar. Stops all arrows and usually only requires 2 fingers to remove the arrow. Using broad heads tears up the bag quickly but I've never seen any fiber fill shredding. I use a 60# bow, but my son's 30# sometimes the arrows just bounce back out.

John

[Florida_boy]

I drive a truck delivering to grocery stores so I ask them for some of the used shrink wrap when I'm in the stores. A bunch of those clusters of shrink wrap in a feed sack work fine for stopping my cedar arrows from both my 50 and 60# longbows.