Sweet Homemade Backstop

RM81 · July 19, 2011, 11:52:00 AM

Looks good!!

WRV · July 19, 2011, 11:56:00 AM

That is beyond nice. Good job by the Mrs.

Bernie B. · July 19, 2011, 02:48:00 PM

You need to take your wife out for dinner! That's a great looking target; very neat! I'm very impressed with her carpentry skills.

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

PeteA · July 19, 2011, 05:33:00 PM

My wife has a hard time hanging picture frames.

Get job, even better wife!

PeteA · July 19, 2011, 05:35:00 PM

My wife has a hard time hanging picture frames.

Great job, even better wife!

Hoyt · July 19, 2011, 06:55:00 PM

I saw 6'x4' x 3/4" thick horse mats on sale in Rural King paper today for $28.99.

Benny Nganabbarru · July 19, 2011, 07:33:00 PM

A heck of a wife you have! Good on her!

ermont · July 19, 2011, 08:26:00 PM

You are one lucky bas**rd. I hope you know that, and appreciate her accordingly.

Dale Hajas · July 19, 2011, 10:00:00 PM

Thats really cool! Is yer wife married? :rolleyes:

techieok · July 20, 2011, 05:38:00 AM

If she has a single sister send her my way!

Kapellmeister · July 20, 2011, 09:13:00 AM

Are ya sure that backstop's big enough?

All seriousness aside, that's really nice!

Just wondering... is the horse stall mat rubber? Do arrows penetrate it or bounce off? (Or haven't you ever missed your target to find out?

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COLongbow · July 20, 2011, 10:18:00 AM

Hi Gene,
Well, it's a rubber-like material, very dense and heavy. I shot an arrow into it on purpose just to see what would happen. Field point penetrated about an inch, didn't bounce off like I thought.
Tough stuff.

Cyclic-Rivers · July 20, 2011, 11:18:00 AM

I like your wife already

Eugene Slagle · July 20, 2011, 11:25:00 AM

Congrats to a mighty fine wife sir, most of us would have to design & build it & possibly still have to keep the lady of the house happy.

Brett Wilmore · July 20, 2011, 12:11:00 PM

Way cool! Hey I'm just wondering, does that rubber break down after awhile (year or two) in the sun? Or can you just leave it out? Thanks and congrats.

JamesKerr · July 20, 2011, 12:13:00 PM

Very nice

Keefer · July 20, 2011, 03:57:00 PM

I was impressed as well by your wife and noticed she even spaced the lags evenly to hold the matt on...She must of had a very good father that spent quite a bit of time with her showing her how to take care of herself if she needed to...I have two young daughters 4 and 5 and I already let my daughters use the wrenchs to tighten their bike seats and such...Now I hope you help do dish's,vacuum and do laundry...If not you better get with it ... :D

glenbo · July 20, 2011, 08:28:00 PM

As much as I am inpressed by the backstop,I am much more impressed by your wifes effort.

ron w · July 20, 2011, 10:20:00 PM

As was said before....she's a keeper!!

She did a fantastic job!!

LA Trapper · July 20, 2011, 11:07:00 PM

Dude.... you got it good. She is something.