stoping the arrow in straw
08-17-2008, 10:42 AM
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Horse Country, VA
Posts: 937
RE: stoping the arrow in straw
I have 4 bales...2 in front and 2 in back strapped with ratchet strap with cardboard from a stand I bought last year covering the front. The target however is a burlap seed bag with an old couch foam cushion inside of it hanging in front of the bales.
Took black spray paint and painted 5 black circles on feed bag, so my target is the bag, and the hay is my backstop. If Im missing the burlap bag and just hitting the hay Im giving up bowhunting.
Took black spray paint and painted 5 black circles on feed bag, so my target is the bag, and the hay is my backstop. If Im missing the burlap bag and just hitting the hay Im giving up bowhunting.
08-17-2008, 10:55 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cogan Station, PA
Posts: 2,298
RE: stoping the arrow in straw
ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr
A regular straw or hay bale from a farm is not going to stop an arrow from a modern bow, especially with a broad head on it. That was the problem with your carpet as well. If you do use carpet or a heavy tarp it needs to be on the back of the bale, not the front. It need to be able to move when the arrow hits it to absorb the energy. Putting it on the front will do nothing. Probably won't work with broad heads anyway because they will just slice a big hole in it. Works pretty well for field tips though.
The safest and smartest thing to do is shoot in a safe direction, never trust a backstop. Number one rule in weapons safety is knowing what is beyond where you are shooting. If you don't want to shoot your house don't shoot at your house, pretty simple really.
Paul
A regular straw or hay bale from a farm is not going to stop an arrow from a modern bow, especially with a broad head on it. That was the problem with your carpet as well. If you do use carpet or a heavy tarp it needs to be on the back of the bale, not the front. It need to be able to move when the arrow hits it to absorb the energy. Putting it on the front will do nothing. Probably won't work with broad heads anyway because they will just slice a big hole in it. Works pretty well for field tips though.
The safest and smartest thing to do is shoot in a safe direction, never trust a backstop. Number one rule in weapons safety is knowing what is beyond where you are shooting. If you don't want to shoot your house don't shoot at your house, pretty simple really.
Paul
08-17-2008, 11:29 AM
#13
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: East Central Ohio
Posts: 663
RE: stoping the arrow in straw
ORIGINAL: Buckmaster519
get some burlap feed sacks and fill them with old t-shirts and foam and other stuff as well as they hay this is what is in my magic stop and its tops them well.
get some burlap feed sacks and fill them with old t-shirts and foam and other stuff as well as they hay this is what is in my magic stop and its tops them well.
08-17-2008, 12:21 PM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
RE: stoping the arrow in straw
well it is at the house. at the main road. or one of two allys. or my garage.
not to many places to shoot around my house.
not to many places to shoot around my house.
ORIGINAL: gamespooker
If you don't want to shoot your house don't shoot at your house, pretty simple really.
lol, X2.....
If you don't want to shoot your house don't shoot at your house, pretty simple really.
lol, X2.....
