Bow Target Backstop?
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My buddy in Canada uses a old hot tub cover, it works amazing and has some size to it.
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A couple layers of old carpet works well.
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Don't miss. 
I made a 4x6 target that I shoot out to 100 yards.
I made it like this except I covered it with some old carpet. http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1425598 I've been shooting it for 4 years and have yet to have a pass through. It's filled with old t-shirts, shrink wrap, walmart sacks and newspaper. I just filled it with a bunch of crap that I had laying around.
I made a 4x6 target that I shoot out to 100 yards.
I made it like this except I covered it with some old carpet. http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1425598 I've been shooting it for 4 years and have yet to have a pass through. It's filled with old t-shirts, shrink wrap, walmart sacks and newspaper. I just filled it with a bunch of crap that I had laying around.
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Carpet. I drape it over a saw horse right behind the deer decoy, IIIIFFFF I were to miss, it will stop it.
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How many layers of carpet? I would think it would have to be pretty thick?
I would really like to make a lifetime target eventually though. Thanks for that link!
If you hang it like a drape where it will give with the impact it works well from what I'm told. Haven't tried it to confirm however. I've been shooting at my 18 x 18 blob out to 40 yards with the bay as a backdrop and haven't had to go swimming for an arrow yet. I'm hoping I can direct my Lab to it if I do miss.
i use stable mats, like what the equestrian center uses for the horses to stand on, its like 1'4-1/2" rubber, they are like 4'x6' burry 2 4x4 and screw the stable mat to it!!! instant backstop. if the arrows hit it they stick through about an 1" or 2" just ease em out and your done.
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Nice idea. I just tried to look them up on the tractor supply website and they didn't list the price. You have an idea what it cost you?
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One of those lightweight cheap white styrofoam ice chests works great, but it'll flip over when you hit it... I think that's why it works so good. Some physics involved... Hey where's that guy from last year that explained the Pythagorean theorem to us lol
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That's what I have now and I tore up a couple arrows last year sighting my bow in :whistling:
Not a big fan of having to go buy more arrows...
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I was just kidding. I missed the target once and had the time of my life pulling that arrow back out.
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