Round straw targets?

[slowbowjoe]

I'd like to find a couple of these around 18-24" diameter; seems like they used to be common, but all I'm finding are quite expensive, and pretty much all from Europe. Any still around in the states, and reasonably priced?

[Roy from Pa]

Tractor Supply sells small compressed bales of straw for about $13.00.

They are in the horse and cattle section of the stores.

Make great targets.

[bucknut]

I also shoot the Tractor Supply compressed bales and don't really know how you could beat them for the price. I have several thousand shots into mine and still going. I know they aren't the round ones you are looking for but they are quite impressive.

John

[Jon Stewart]

Saunders has them

[onemississipp]

Believe they are called “butts” that may help in your search


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[slowbowjoe]

Looks like the Saunders are all foam; I'm hoping for woven grass or straw. Have a compressed bale, and I drive past a Tractor Supply five days a week... really wanting a smallish round one.
I'll search for target butts, hadn't thought of that!

[pavan]

I use to get a 36" and a 48" Saunders mat every other year.  They lasted longer if you kept them wet and only used target points.  They delivered them by truck, even though the Saunders facility was only a couple of hours away it was still cheaper to ship by truck than to go get them.  I quit target shooting the year that I could not get a 48" mat.

[Jon Stewart]

They are prairie grass according to the saunders Archery dite

[slowbowjoe]

Jon, I'm just not seeing any prairie grass targets on the Saunders site I'm getting... does it show the grass face, or is it covered with paper/rings?

[GCook]

Look up Excelsior bale tsrgets.

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[kenneth butler]

Many years ago I bought the 48" round grass butt locally.  It was only about 6" thick but when moistened it would stop all arrows. Wetting helped prevent the straw from breaking and swelled them tight. I believe foam totally replaced them due to shipping weight. They were heavy. >>>---->Ken

[pavan]

The other target source we had was an area lumber yard sold excelsior bales.  You had to keep those dry and the lumber yard would let anyone use their banders.   Next i went to bread tie bales, massive beasts that weighed over a hundred pounds a piece.  For flat target face work, nothing was better than the Saunders mats, but my seed crates, stuffed with used silage plastic, last a long time and it's all free.