Practice target recommendation
 

I used a cheap target from bass pro but it did not lasted long.
Next I am thinking to buy a foam target but the reviews on them seems not so great.
Only at 200$ you can get something well rated and even then some comments make me wonder if this is the way to go.
Anybody has any insight in a decent target for outdoor practice? Not for broadheads...just field points.
Cheers

Grizz targets at Sundre

Rinehart ANYTHING!!!!

J.

Rinehart 18-1 is good for a handy grab and go target. Yellow jacket bag if you don't like pulling arrows out of foam.

Those foam targets can be garbage. I had a blackout one that lasted about 500 arrows with field points before I was getting pass thrus. I have a bag hurricane bag target that seems to be lasting forever with field points. I've also heard good things about Rinehart but I've never used them.

Rinehart 18-1. They are going for $89.99 on camofire.com right now. Watch for the sale.

Rinehart and delta McKenzie make good stuff

But DO NOT leave it out in the sun. Sunlight quickly destroys all foam. Put it away after every practice session and it will last years.

Second this! We just picked up a 4’by4’ one from there it’s worth the money

This:
Cost about $38 @ Home Depot per sheet. It’s basement insulation foam. One sheet makes 24x26x16
Loosen strap and shuffle layers around. I have this in the basement. So far a month with about 20 shots a day (recovering from nerve issues) and no passthrus yet.

Stacked Cardboard works great, just compress it with a couple of two by fours top and bottom. I'm an old guy that doesn't shoot as much but when I do go out I do what we called "Roving". Probably an old fashioned concept but I still enjoy it. You just walk through the woods and target old tree stumps, mounds of dirt, etc.. I guess it was pre the days of 3D target shooting. A very enjoyable way to spend a day in the woods and keep your eye in with a variety of distances.

Keep safe out there.

Bulldog targets. $100 going on 3 years

I have a Bulldog target and it’s Ok, but if you have small diameter arrows it sucks for removing them.

I’ve got a few Block targets and 3D targets and they are all ok.

At the Oilmans shoot this year my son won a Grizzly target in the kids long distance shoot (he was the last shooter and on his last arrow got a bullseye). It’s amazing. I can shoot it at 20 yards with a VAP arrow and my 11 year old son can pull it out with 2 fingers. It’s literally the easiest target to remove an arrow from that I’ve found.

I would buy one for sure.

I purchased this Morrell Super Duper Field Point... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00IJCI5TE?...p_mob_ap_share from amazon and filled it with old shopping bags and plastic wrapper Trash from work. For the price I couldnt be happier. I think next time I’ll just get an old burnco bag and fill that with stuff for free you could stitch it up with zap straps to what ever size I want. No need to spend a lot of money for field points.

Get a rugged cardboard box to match your target needs and stuff it with shrink wrap. (The stuff pallets are wrapped with) Stuff the box as full as you can get. No pass throughs and super easy pull outs....really.....so cheap and so easy on all counts.

Field point target
 

I use milk crates stuffed to the top with old rags (but no jean type fabric) then just screw a piece of that puzzle type floor mat over the face. Works great, can even send my 3 year old to pull arrows for me.

Large sandbag stuffed with old clothes. About as cheap as you can get.

I built one that holds up, 30"x30"x10" with scrap plywood on the sides and stuffed with cut off shrink wrap from from a local grocery store. My cost was $0 as it was all scraps. Looks just like a bull dog target and performs just as well.

Home made Rag Bag for me.
Collected a large feed bag from a local Rancher Buddy.
Cut it to size, and filled it tight with old sleeping bags and clothing (all zippers / buttons removed obviously).
It stops arrows from my Matrix 380 dead at 20 yards. And is reasonably easy to pull them afterwards.

https://i.imgur.com/aeF0mPT.jpg

Now has several thousand shots into it and going strong.
Feed bag is good at self healing btw.
Oh, and that above group was attained at 80 yards. :sHa_shakeshout:

Cheers,
Nog

Likely the most durable target I have seen is a Griz target. These are made locally and the owner is a bow hunter and archer that just wants to build a product that wont let people down. Give them a try!

Norm

I’ve had a factory 2nd Rinehart 18-1 for 3 years. Its crazy how many arrows it takes to ruin them. Great target!

Sorry forgot to add photo to my post above:

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Same on both sides.

18-1
 

Ive shot 100s of broadheads into the 18-1 and its still hold up. Never waste money on the stacked foam style.

This
I shot about 5000 into one and then just replaced the cover