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Fishstiq
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I just finished my new archery backstop for my backyard! Now I can practice all I want (at 20 yards)!!!
I've tested it from 10 feet, the arrow sank to the fletchings but stopped there. From the 20 yard mark, the arrow stops after about 6 inches is through. I won't be shooting from any closer than 20 yards, so I figure I'm good and everyone is safe. The backstop area is 5X5 feet, and I will be suspending the 3X3 target in the center with a 1 food boarder all the way around.
From 20 yards...
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Re: My new backstop
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July 12, 2012, 03:30:01 PM »
What's the material?
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July 12, 2012, 04:14:00 PM »
An old conveyor belt from a wood grinder. Basically a big@$$ mudflap. It's the same thing the Seattle gun club uses as backstops on their 3D course.
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July 12, 2012, 04:53:50 PM »
They work really well. Silver Arrow Bowmen has started ading them to the back side of thier straw bail targets so that when they get really shot up you don't blow all the way through and loose an arrow. They are on all the targets on the flat range and work really well. they work best just hanging so that the weight helps dampen the impact... Good use of belting.
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Looks good.
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I still have a good amount of conveyor belt material left if anyone has a use for it.
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July 26, 2012, 04:09:24 PM »
How thick is it and how many feet do you have? Looks to be about 3' wide?
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it's about 1/4 inch thick and i think 3 feet wide. My backstop is 5 feet wide and you can see that it overlaps. I have a pretty good size roll of the stuff, enough to make 1-2 more backstops this size. If I stand at like 10 feet and shoot it my arrows will go through to the fletchings, but from 20 yards they stop after a couple inches.
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“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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Re: My new backstop
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August 20, 2012, 12:25:44 PM »
Fishstiq,
I'll take 8-10 feet if you have any left. I can probably pick it up sometime this week. I've just been using an old piece of hanging carpet but is not the best.
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Looks good. I like it.
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May want to save some of the material for patches for when it starts to wear through..
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