...melting mountain...

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"Oh cool archeological finds!"

"The mountain's melting."

This is my first comment on a server, so please forgive me if I break any rules/etiquette.

This being said, I have been there and thought of using eva foam and high density foam and then gym tiles and such. I did the math on raw material cost vs a target I could buy, like this one here. In all the cases I got the same price or a smaller target for a touch less (10 euros or so), couting in just the foam price: not the personal time needed and the other inevitable extra material needed to make a good target. So i did not even bother to try.

Anyway I still wanted to make a big target (as I already made some small targets in the past, but suitable in my opinion for more than 25 meters). The first targets i made were a layering of random packaging foam and old school notebooks inside a cardboard box, and they worked quite well stopping arrows from a 45 pounds bow @ 15 meters, but they deteriorated quite quickly.

I thought of using plastic material, but I do not like the idea of small pieces remaining on the ground, but mainly those materials are very good if you pack them right: they need to be squished hard and tight inside the receptacle, and it is hard to be even by hand.

So my last idea (and this experimental) was to go to the local supermarket and ask them for cardboard they throw away: cut it into small pieces and mix it with PVA glue and water. Normally this glue would get too hard to shoot against, but you can avoid that by adding a ceratin amount of veg glycerin. I still have to try this one and figure out the the tright amounts. I'll keep you posted when i have the time to do that :D

Thanks for the input. As I recall you shoot a compound bow, right? I have no idea how to compare energy with recurve. I mean we measure draw weight.

10k shots would be pretty ok for a DIY target, but what diameter shafts were you shooting? Just approx.

I think the 4mm shafts my archer shoots will deliver the energy to the target slower, than the traditionally thicker compound shafts, thus requiring more resistance from the target.

Do you know how fast your arrows fly, or your draw weight and "gearing"? (it probably has a different name)

It is (was) full of old clothes and towels. Worked really well, I put probably around 10k shots into it before it was done.

Not a pokemon joke: what's that target? I mean is it DIY all the way or? What's it filled with? I was about to post a question about experiences with target material, when I saw your post.

“Oh, look, arrows. How original.”

Plus you’ll look like a dickhead for killing the king of the woods.

Owl? At first glance I thought he was hunting Bigfoot!

Bird is looking at me like: bruh, I don't even care he's shootin' at me.

Yep, a rubber 3D target. A very nice one too!

Is that an owl? Are they edible? I fish and hunt myself, and (respectfully) I find it difficult to justify killing a bird of prey.

Perhaps I missing something, here...

EDIT: Wait... is it fake?

EDIT2: lol, it is fake! It is too close to be real, standing in that weird thingy... I ain't gonna lie, you got me in the first half...

Too bad the text is barely readable.

I thought only women suffered the cruel foot-binding? Those are tiny...

They are Njala, not deer. They are very tame, my wife will kill me if I shoot one. 😂

Were those deer really just standing there as you prepared and and posed your bow?

Tragic, isn't it?

I mean she never got to see your comment before she died.

It'd be more interesting if she'd died before it was taken, I admit. Bit creepy though.

She died after this picture was taken.

Yeah I winced hard, girl you do not want those bruises...

Oh boy, whoever let her do that without breast protection was really doing her a disservice. The whiplash on that would be brutal. ,😱

It's for practice. Why not shoot at a unicorn or chupacabra?