Just wondering what the different clubs are using for target backstops at their indoor archery ranges. How they are holding up as far as durability and cost effectiveness. Thanx,...Lloyd

Anybody..?????

I am wondering too   :confused:

I want to set up a target in the garage to shoot during the winter here ( gotta work on that form! )  

I have been shooting at an indoor range for 9 years and has been around for more than 15 , their backstops are made from slabs of carpet about 10" wide and 48" long and stacked 48" high stacked on top of each other and compressed by a 2 x10 top and bottom by banding. This range is very popular with the compounds and recently the  Xbows  and are holding up very well. I would say the wheely bows get 3" to 5" penatraition.  

These are what the range started with from day one.    

When I was into the wheels I did the same thing but with cardboard and will say these lasted for a good 10 years for me in my basement with just myself doing the shooting!!

My club uses a pillow stuffed with some kind of fluffy cotton? and plastic grocery bags.  We add bags once in a while but have never changed/replaced the cotton stuff in my memory.  That STOPS the arrows.  In front of that we use two layers of woven nylon-like material stretched tightly around both sides of a two-by-four frame.  This mesh HOLDS the targets and arrows.  The mesh has to be replaced yearly.  I made myself a target out of stacked cardboard like mentioned above and I hated it.  It stopped arrows just fine, it just wouldn't give them back worth a darn.  It really gripped them.

layered cardboard.

At an archery class I attended recently, they had an archery net. It's a sheet of loose weave, BCY. The weave is loose enough that the field points stick in the holes, rather than slide along the cloth in case of angled shots. It is fastened only at the top, so it gives with the arrow. The sheet cost them around $300 is around 9' x 20' and should last a long time, especially since it only has to catch the arrows that miss the target.

Thanx guys, I'm thinking more along the line of the layered material, maybe a type of foam? We have the netting material that Bladepeek is referring to and use that when we have an advertising exibition at some of the local sporting stores. We now use the Bulldog K9 target butts, but they were shot out in 3 months and were VERY hard to remove the arrows from when they were new {JUNK}. Again, thanx for the feed-back,....Lloyd

Back stop ?, what for ?    

Greeley Archers uses a by-product from something. Its foam about 1/8 thick. 10in wide about 3ft. long. works very well.

Our club uses a backstop called "The Block". It is layers of foam,a bunch of them I'd say 500 of them in a block. Each one is about 24"wide and 1/8th thick. They are compressed together very tightly with clamped steel bands. They cost $550 each. And have a 4'by 4' target face. They work great Canadian Idle. But they are pricey,and another issue is wheel/crossbow guys blast the centers out after about 6 months of heavy shooting. So it is wise to move paper pin-on targets around on any backstop to keep that from occuring. Also,on these foam backstops shooting at angles really hurts them to. They are designed to be shot at "straight-on" just a little food for thought.   rat'

For a backstop, behind a single target butt.

Horse stall matts come in different sizes and can be cut, then screwed to a wall. Have also used plywood, or OSB sheathing behind a bale.  

you could fold some old carpet over a string , works very well.

For  a backstop behind the target butts, I use old conveyer belt material.  I live in an agricultural area where lots of wheat is grown.  I asked a guy I knew at the Grain Grower business that runs many of the grain elevators,  and he had rolls of old broken conveyer belt material.  I just hung it from a 2 x 4 hanging from the ceiling of my basement and an arrow just bounces off.

I shot at a range in Tulsa Oklahoma that used stacks of their own city telephone books.

at our local club we used layered cardboard compressed with ply wood and all-tread.  worked real well and cheap...

Tghe Indoor Range I shoot, has Layers of Cardboard too! Works like a Charm!

is thats(all your tips) for field point or broadhead?
and whats would you use for broadheads ?
merci .

I am going to try a tractor supply rubber stall mat hung on a frame. They are 4'x6'x 3/4" thick and weights 100#. $33 bucks.

For outdoor use I will attach it along one of the 6' sides using a cable strung between 2 T-post. For indoor use I will probably make a rack to hang it from.

I don't miss my bag very often but we all know it happens. Previously in my shop I just put a couple of pieces of plywood up behind my bag target. But I think the rubber mat will work as well and I will not be putting holes in good plywood.

If this works well I plan to set up at least two in the yard so I can practice at different angles and yardage. With the price of arrows the backstop will pay for itself quickly.

The rubber horse stall matt works ok but my 47lb longbow and 600 grain arrow will stick in it if I hit high (mine is hanging in a frame) it must be hung loose and low shots arrows bounce off. I use seed bags with plastic bags packed in in front so matt just stops bad shots or those that find a hole in the bags.