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Plastic bag butt
DC:
--- Quote from: steve b. on March 26, 2017, 11:19:59 pm ---DC, You WILL hit the plywood frame. Just do the burlap thing. I doesn't take alot to stop a wood arrow, but why skimp, just stuff it full and hand sew it up.
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That's a good point, I know I've hit the frame on the Bulldog target I've got out back. This one will be just for the shop and I'll only be shooting maybe 15 feet. It will be 2'x2' and if I miss it there will be (another) hole in the cedar garage door. The biggest burlap sack I can get is about 16-18" wide. Decisions, decisions Thanks
PEARL DRUMS:
I keep a roll of heavy duty plastic wrap handy. When my bag targets start to soften up or sag, I wrap the entire thing tightly and its good to go for another 5000 shots.
steve b.:
For indoors I would do foam. But not one of those smallish block types. I learned my lesson once when I hit the edge of the block, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that the arrow turned 90 degrees and hit the wall in the next room, traveling perfectly perpendicular to where I was shooting. I use those big white open cell target butts. I get them used at the archery store but they are still expensive. You'll eventually shoot through it so must have a stop behind it.
I once was shooting from the street into the garage, missed the target, and the arrow went through the wall into the bedroom, hit and closed the bedroom door. I put some toothpaste in the hole--wife never knew.
DC:
And if you mail me the last bow you posted, she won't hear it from me ;D ;D ;D
steve b.:
:-M.....Funny. You could make a bow as good as I can....you just need a good stave for a change.... :BB O:)
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