what's your favourite b/head target?

[wihill]

Portable Target - Reinhart 18:1.  Best investment I've made so far, regarding a purchased target.

Stationary Target - homemade 40"x40"x18" foam target with a varity of pin up animals on it (usually the big cardboard deer).  I can deal with the "snow" and the negatives for what I've got into it.  I'll probably make another one this summer so I can make a bit more of a backstop.  I like my neighbors.

[Chris Surtees]

For portable the Rhinehart 18-1, Small Block target, or Morrell Yellow Jacket.

They are in order of what is IMO the best to worst and also most expensive to least. You do get what you pay for when it comes to targets.

Chris

[Skipmaster1]

18-1 is the best. i have put over 5000 BH shots into one and it was still stopping my arrows from my wheel bow with 90#KE

I would last even longer with my Trad gear only

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Problem with a "Sand Pit" in the back yard... Neighbor's cat use it my dog wants to clean it up.. Maybe I should hang a tree stand and do a little kitty hunting.
Oh if your shooting into the sand you may want to think twice about wiping that "Mud" off on anything you touch... Damn cats...

[Aggie1993]

another rhinehart 18-1 vote.  yellow jacket broadhead target holds up well but getting the arrows out can be tough at times. 18-1 best all around portable target imo.

[kevgsp]

The yellow jacket is good.

Once it gets shot into a bit you can use field tips too.

[Swamp Pygmy]

Sure Trad Only. It was just getting late last night. I'll show you guys mine. I like it alot. It's large, incredibly light weight, portable, can be built to any size. It's four sided, so you can walk in a circle and shoot it from all angles. All pieces can be replaced as worn in $5 increments, and the entire thing is only $15. You could even make it roughly into an animal shape if you wanted. Certainly the body of a deer or pig.

It's truly so simple it's stupid. At Walmart buy the correct size polyester pillows. $3-$5. Use two bed pillows for field points. Comes to $10. Then go to hardware and buy a $5 tarp. Put the pillows together and wrap tightly into desired shape. Tie off and place inside a burlap/cardboard/contractor bag. And your done. I prefer contractor bags because I can twist it down tight and tie it off.

It's a great idea because the premise is rather than stop the arrow by friction on all sides, it stops it by cushioning the force itself. The pillows mainly absorb the shock and prevent it from going in more than about 2-3 in at twenty yards with a 45lb bow. For broadheads I think I'd use an extra pillow and/or a larger tarp to wrap it. Like I said I've never tried BH's though so it may not work well for them. Probably not when I think of it more, it may cut the materials too much. But it definitely works for FP's. To remove arrow just twist and pull in the direction that will tighten your tip.

I used to buy the regular "black hole" or whatever at $45 but I was going through them way too fast. Literally. Going through the target in about 2mos and seeing light through it within about 4.

 

These last much longer and I can make 3 for the same price.
 

I unrolled it so you can see how simple. Just tightly rolled tarp and pillows with a covering.

 

[Swamp Pygmy]

On that line has anyone come up with any homemade broadhead stopping material? I'm trying to think of what I could add to that target to stop the blades from reaching the pillows.

[john fletch]

I found 2 closed cell foam squares at a foam specialty shop in Seattle 6 years ago - $36 each, both are about 30" square.  They are 3" thick.

I hang them from my three bale stacks.

I shoot mostly field poits to get in shape and then I get out the 4 arrows with dull broadheads to fine tune before hunting.  I always find that release and aiming has more affect on my shots than the difference between a broadhead and field point.  Some would say that is becasue my bow is so slow.

I know the speed demons with the training wheel say it make a lot of difference.

[str8sh2ter]

Sheep's wool stuffed in a Burlap bag works good for me.My 2 blade Magnus BH's go through.I think if i stuffed alittle tighter they wouldn't.i've also heard you can stuff plastic bags in a Burlap bag and get the same effect.

[hawgslayer]

 

Yellow Jacket works for me!!! I only shoot a few b/h's a few months before hunting season opens. I use the BLOCK for F/P'S.

 

[Swamp Pygmy]

I've no doubt the pillows I use now would work, I just don't want to pull out a large chunk of polyester every shot when I retrieve my arrow. Same for the plastic bags.