archery target

[dreamingbig]

How many layers of the 2" foam do you use?  I am thinking about 2 feet worth or 12 layers.

[Special T]

4. you really only need 4 one pice of 2x8 will make 1 target. if you want to you can double it up so its easier to stand up. Broad heads will stop before they exit. feild points will stick out the other side but will stop the arrow. A pice of 4x8 2in pink will run you $25. I made 2 so that i could shoot up and down a hill. I shot up the hill to a target with 5-6 arrows then retrieved. Then shot down the hill and repeated.  Its awsome if you have a steep hill or ravine near by you can do it in.  Good way to estimate range and the effect of angles.  When ductaping the targets together i used a 6in pice of conduit and taped to the top of the target, then pounded in 2 3' pices of rebar 2 targets can run you less than 35$

[Snapshot]

One caution on white dock foam. It will stop broad heads, but if you shoot much you will have little white snow all aver before too long. 

Yep! It goes somewhere though... Maybe the squirrels carry it off to pad their nests...

[stuckalot]

My very favorite target for field points is a gunny sack stuffed with two old Coleman sleeping bags.  Have never been able to get an arrow to even poke out the back side, and they pull with 1 finger and thumb!  Probably wouldn't hold up outside on the wetside though, I use it in the shop during the winter and it spends all summer outside.

Gunny sack stuffed with T-shirts, or painter rags work very well also. (again for field points, and dry)