Hay bales and broadheads

[Friends call me Pac]

For me hay bales do a good job as a backstop for my broadheads.  I read sand makes a good broadhead backstop as well but hay bales are so conveinent for me.  I buy 3 every year and wrap them in stretch plastic I get from lowes.  The plastic does 2 things.  Keeps the hay dry and holds the bale together when a broad head cuts the twine.  Cutting the twine with a broadhead will happen, just a matter of time.  I have a 3d target but hate pulling arrows from it.  Doesn't matter if they are broadheads or field points.

I've noticed 3 blade heads can't be pulled out of the bale from the front.  I have to push them out the back and unscrew the head.  My 2 blade heads can be pulled from the front and is less of a hassle.

Anyone else using hay bales as a target/ backstop for broadheads?

[PEARL DRUMS]

I bought a Yellow Jacket BH target and all styles of BH's pulll right out. Works too good for me to change.

[saumensch]

interests me as well, been thinking about getting me one.

[Rick Butler]

I've got a yellow jacket broadhead target also.  Works very well, think I paid 60.00 for it last season.

[bornagainbowhunter]

i shoot both hay bales and broadhead targets.  I like to roam out in my pastures and shoot the hay bales (round bales) from unknown distances.  When I just want to fling some arrows, I shoot a Morrell broadhead target I think 6 shooter is the name of it.  The company is close by and you can buy the 2nds for $10 each.  Smokin' cheap.  If I were to buy 3 hay bales I would only save about $2.50, and 3 blades come out of the BH target with ease.

God Bless,

[Frank Warnke]

For broadhead practice, I use one of those foam blocks that you kick around.  Been eying up one of those yellow jacket targets though.

[Andy Cooper]

I'm glad to hear a good report on the Yellow Jacket BH targets...been eyeing one. I have plenty of hay, but its alfalfa and is reserved for my horses. Plus, it costs $7/bale.

[mparks]

Originally posted by Andy Cooper:
I'm glad to hear a good report on the Yellow Jacket BH targets...been eyeing one. I have plenty of hay, but its alfalfa and is reserved for my horses. Plus, it costs $7/bale.

Hay!  Hay's for horses!  Straw is cheaper, and grass is free.  

I use straw bales.  I just dedicate one arrow for broadhead shooting and rip it through the back side.  Not too bad on the feathers.  I do the unscrew and pull from the front to keep the fletches nice.

[Covey]

I'm with ya brother! a hole lot cheaper, and biodegradable! HA! Jason

[RAU]

Ive had a few ideas lately for haybales but never got around to trying them yet and dont even know if they  will work. My idea was to get 2 or 3 bales and wrap them with a cheap ratchet strap and see if I couldnt get em a little tighter and that way help them last. Also been thinking of sqashing some down between long threaded rods with nuts and washers on 2 2X4s if they get loose maybe I could just re-tighten the nuts. Another was to wrap some bales in poly rope and use a piece of rebar or pipe as a tounequit and really torque some tension into em. Like I said I never tried any of these methods but will, they might work.
Don

[beetlebailey1977]

I use a Rinehart 18-1 target.

[xtrema312]

I was just thinking today about bails.  I had not thought of the plastic wrap.  I shot a new Rinehart 18-1's and the warrantee target I got to crumbs this year since February or March.  Love the target, but my Muzzy Phantoms really eat them up.  I need a much better broadhead target.

[wildcat hunter]

DARN RAU!; good idea!

[K. Mogensen]

Live on sort of a farm and use hay as my back stop. Used it as a FP target for a while too and liked it. Never tried it with bheads...

[mparks]

Originally posted by RAU:
Ive had a few ideas lately for haybales but never got around to trying them yet and dont even know if they  will work. My idea was to get 2 or 3 bales and wrap them with a cheap ratchet strap and see if I couldnt get em a little tighter and that way help them last. Also been thinking of sqashing some down between long threaded rods with nuts and washers on 2 2X4s if they get loose maybe I could just re-tighten the nuts. Another was to wrap some bales in poly rope and use a piece of rebar or pipe as a tounequit and really torque some tension into em. Like I said I never tried any of these methods but will, they might work.
Don

I've got a  straw bale sandwiched between 2X12's right now with a long ratchet strap around the whole thing.  The 2X12's are along the strings so I shoot into the cut side of the bale.  I tighten the ratchet a few clicks whenever I think about it.  Seems to be a slight improvement over just the bale alone.

[Mike Vines]

I use my Rinehart cube targetfor my broadhead shooting, and I have a rubber flooor mat behind the target just in case.  I have shot the rinehart target for 4 years with broadheads, and it never wears out, and is a dream to pull any broadhead from.

[JamesV]

I had 14 yrds of sandy dirt delivered that is not going to be used till spring so I have the perfect B/head backstop. Also have a big cardboard bale like you see out behind wallyworld. Stops any arrow good but after getting wet and a lot of shooting the arrows bounce off a lot and the cardboard makes a big mess in the yard.

[jim phenes]

My experience with round bails and broadheads hasnt been that good, the two blade zwickeys pull ok but any other broadhead like a three blade stick and are very hard to pull. target heads they work great.

[rholzie]

Rick Butlers' "Stos" broadheads into my cheap styrofoam target! Worked for me! Watch out Rick...the "Predator" is on the prowl!  

[Gerardo]

  rinehart 18-1

Great for broadheads and it will go  a long way!!!!!