Archery targets

[andym]

I've been trying to find a suitable foam to use for archery practice in the back garden (low power bow).

I found yoga blocks on ebay for something like £6... so I stupidly sent the company an email asking if they had them in larger sizes and said what I wanted to use them for.

I can't remember the exact sizes of the ones I found, but somewhere around 30cm x 20cm x 12cm...

I got an email back saying that they had 60x60x9cm blocks... £35 in one colour and £50 in another colour.

I think I'll just wait for someone to throw an old sofa out and pinch the cushions from it.

[Fisty]

A bale of hay. £5 from local farm.
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[Chalky.]

/\ straw would be half the price

Or, use local wildlife.

[Zen Dog]

Hay and straw wreck your arrows after a while, if they're aluminium. You need high-density foam, but not the stuff thats like a sponge. Think this is it -

https://www.efoam.co.uk/closed-cell-polyethylene.php

I always used to just make a block 4-5 layers thick. No problem stopping the arrows and pretty easy to pull out again. This was years ago though so there may be something better out there now.

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[andym]

Thanks Zen, that's the kind of stuff I was looking for.... and not going to break the bank like everywhere else.

The problem with hay and straw (apart from ruining arrows eventually), is that they would just rot down would they not?

As for the wildlife... that I don't have a problem with... just that there is a very good chance they would run off with the arrows sticking out of them

[Rogerborg]

How big a back garden do you have that you can arch in it? Break a nock and you're off at 45 degrees on either side. Think of the kittens!

Self, I use rubber blunts, but that does kind of require Man Arrows. Marrows, if you like.
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[andyscooter]

how do you fire a marrow with a bow


ive got a bow and the neigbour grows marrows
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[angryjonny]

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[ruck bodgers2]

https://www.selections.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/435x370/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/G/F/GF3706.jpg

would work if you made a wooden frame for it . would probably work if u just suspended one to depending on what sort of poundage



id go for something like this 20 quid but its free postage
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/60cm-SELF-HEALING-FOAM-ARCHERY-TARGET-boss-ARROW-/271066667853?pt=UK_Archery&hash=item3f1cd51b4d

i used to use some big square ones looked like dice . made a mess after a while bits of strips of foam blowing about the place . but lasted well 800-2000 arrows a week for a year with a compound.

*EDIT* i see u got it sorted via zen dog good find
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[andym]

Thanks for the useful info... Ruck, every time I've looked on ebay they have been much more expensive than that, I might have to buy me a couple of them in the next week or two.

As for the rug, I was considering going to the local carpet shop and ask for some odds and ends and throw several layers together.

My bow is a laughable 34lbs, but for a first bow I didn't want to spend too much and go above my weight (scrawny runt that I am), I did have a couple of cusions from a leather sofa which at point blank range and still managed maybe an inch penetration, even tried on my current sofa (after a drink or two of course), again point blank range and managed maybe 2 inches.

Roger, my wifes garden has a small lane up the side of the house which is about 10 yards, then 15-20 yards downhill on to the back wall of the garage, then the garage itself. there is a 6 foot fence on one side and the other side is probably about 10 yards away. I'm not the best archer in the world, and I did have a couple of panels I made for other reasons on top of the garage, but from about 35 yards I never missed a shot when using a sofa cusion.

Back garden at the flat is a lot smaller, and for target practice I've used 2 pint (plastic) milk cartons and even though I don't always hit them, I'm always within a couple of inches, in this back garden I've had something like 2 stray arrows which have hit the ground at a strange angle and slid along the ground about 4-5 feet past the target.

[Sload]

Carpet odds n ends cut rectangular then stacked and compressed in a home made frame. Takes a while but lasts and does the job.
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[ruck bodgers2]

at 34Ibs you might not get on to well with the carpet target . nothing wrong with 34Ibs its not far off what they use in the olympics
somewhere around 44-50 something .