Question:
does anyone know of a (hopefully cheap) material
that I can mount in the stand to shoot my arrows into? I don't want my
arrows to penetrate all the way through.
Would there be something at a building supply store that I could use?
Rigid insulation?
Answer:
If you are shooting braodheads, and cannot afford to dedicate space to a
sand pile, then foam is pretty much the way to go.
My experience with the insulation boards is that you need a lot to stop
an arrow, it shoots out fast, and it makes a horrible mess. Little blue
flecks all over, forever.
The best target foam is a high density self-healing polyethelyne,
trade name EthaFoam. This is what the commercial broadhead targets are made
of. Buying commercial targets is the most expensive way to get this foam.
It would be cheaper to find a supplier of the raw material, and cut it to
make targets yourself, but I don't know of a wholesale source.
For field points, the best thing by far, for price and durability, is
a burlap bag stuffed with poly sheeting. Make it yourself. Two to six mil
sheeting from the hardware store, burlap from a fabric shop.
Make it a foot thick, and as big as you like. Stuff it good-n-full,
and it will stop any arrow, from any bow, and last forever doing it.
I have one of these that is five years old, and has been shot thousands
of times with an 80 lb bow tossing 600+ grain arrows at better than 200 fps.
Never had a pass thru.
