Hi!
I`m practicing hard with my broadheads and use today foam-targets for this but that's expensive!!
I eat thru a target in short time and changes the midsection many times during a year!
If I start to shoot all over the foam I gotta change the whole and that's even more expensive!
(tried that one)

any good ideas for training with broadheads that also give easy pull out possibility?  

Sand.

I shoot BH's all the time into my Rhinehart pig, after a while turn it around to shoot the other side, and when it's worn out just get a new insert and eventually a new pig-works for me.

Couch cushions, can find they in abundance on trash day. I duct tape two together and they are great and free.

I had 14 yards of dirt delivered ($100) for some minor landscaping, works great for any type arrow and will never wear out.

Won't the sand dull the heck out of your broad heads ?

You don't use your hunting broadheads just designate a few for practice and shoot at sand or soft dirt. I personally only shoot them a couple times out of each setup and if they work I seldom ever shoot broadheads.

A sand pit and paper plates Ronnie!

QuoteOriginally posted by ddauler:
You don't use your hunting broadheads just designate a few for practice and shoot at sand or soft dirt. I personally only shoot them a couple times out of each setup and if they work I seldom ever shoot broadheads.

Ditto to this for me, much cheaper and I've been using the same broadhead target for years.

Rotted stumps.  Feed sack full of bark chips.

Styrofoam block.  Get one as large as you can find or make one from sheets of styrofoam insulation cut into 2'X4' pieces and glued/taped together to make at least a 10"-12" thickness.  Mine is a scrap piece from a foundry, white bead type foam.  It's been shot with broadheads for over 10 years and still stops arrows from up to 70# bows.  It's 2'x2'x4' in size.  Great stuff for shooting rock heads also.  Doesn't damage the sinew wrapping or knock the points loose.

Sand or dirt. It would be nice if you can get dirt run thru a sieve to remove any rocks.  

Build a three wall pen (back wall and side walls)maybe three feet high and four feet square,and fill it with the dirt or sand.  

Run a wire across the front and hang a cardboard target from the wire.  Sure it will dull the broadheads but they can be resharpened.
ChuckC

Does sand damage the shaft? I'm thinking carbon or wood here???

Shoot someone else's target!!!  

dirt bank. how many packets of broadheads can you buy for the price of a foam target??

i just designate a couple of heads for practise. takes ages for them to wear away.

Every year I buy a cheap foam target from Walmart its real cheap I flip it around and shoot all the sides.Cheaper then buying new broad heads every year

For years our broadhead league made sand bunkers and hung cardboard cutout targets on a wire between two posts in front of the sand bunker.  I do this at my hunting camp and use the old wire shower curtain hooks to hold the cut out deer target on the wire.

You can also use the abandon political sign wire holders to hold your target using the same wire shower curtain hooks to hold the targets on to the wire.

At our shop we use the rinehart 18/1. If you shoot it out within a year they replace it.

I have seen many broadheads wear away in the sand pit to the point of breaking...

I like black dirt.  It clearly isn't as abrasive...Its cheap and will last you for the rest of your life :-)

I also practice from my deck right into the lawn ala treestand practice.  Same as black dirt really here in the upper midwest of the US, but there really isn't a formal target or a need to create one.

Ronnie you got a hunt in the works then ?