This year, I will be buying a new archery target… again. My first bag type target was the Morrell Yellow Jacket. It stopped my arrows quite well; however, until the target got well “broken in” the shafts would not stay parallel in the target face. In other words, some of the arrows would droop after hitting the bag. This exposed a large portion of the shaft (the drooping one) to impact from the next shot. Until the bag was well shot in, I wound up damaging quite a few arrows. To prevent this damage, I bought two bales of straw to place in from of the Yellow Jacket just to hold the shafts straight. Obviously, straw presents issues all its own.
Eventually I purchased an American Whitetail broadhead foam target. I was told that until it was broken in I would have to use lubricant on shafts with field points. Let me tell you, I have pounded and pounded that thing for almost three years with broadheads and field points and still I must lubricate the field pointed shafts in order to extract them…every time. I will continue to use the AW target for broadhead practice but in reality, 98% of my practice is with Saunders Combo-Field points. I am tired I mean bone tired, of lubing and grunting those arrows out of that target!
This time, I want a foam target for shooting field points that I can retrieve my arrows from without massive effort. It would be nice to keep around the $100 mark AND be durable as well.
Suggestions anyone?
