WANTED ARCHERY TARGET

1shot16

An archery target eithier straw or foam with stand for in an around 20 euro in good condition in the laois/kilkenny area.

greysides

For €20 you won't get much. You could make a butt for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKhrm51YGR4

1shot16

greysides wrote: »

For €20 you won't get much. You could make a butt for yourself.

The foam targets and stands go for 40 new so im sure some one would be happy for 20 euro for a second hand one in this day and age!

I might build that if i cant get a second hand target thanks!

fenris

You will probably get a rag bag type target for €10ish.
It is like a heavy square sack that you fill with old clothes etc. They work well provided you fill it with enough stuff, mine is now used as a backstop to keep my compound arrows from pinning my target to the fence, it weighs a ton now that it is wet! .

Check the archery shops (ring as they are often not on the website) and I have also seen them in the n11 outdoor shop.

As regards a target second hand for 20, it would probably be in bits with the middle shot out, as targets degrade and are effectively a consumables.

I started with a rag bag type and move onto a foam type. Looking back I should has have just went straight to the foam target but that is how archery sucks you in, start with cheap and good enough then rapidly moving to what you should have got in the first place having paid for both the cheap and the better option!

..Brian..

1shot16 wrote: »

The foam targets and stands go for 40 new so im sure some one would be happy for 20 euro for a second hand one in this day and age!

I might build that if i cant get a second hand target thanks!

Where are you getting foam butts for €40?? They're usually closer to €100 plus shipping!

SteveBabyface

Paul out in Shooting style has practice butts @€;45
http://www.shootingstyle.ie/view_product.php?cat_id=74

and Keith in ArcheryShop.ie has butt starting at €30 (allegedly)
http://www.archeryshop.ie/targets.html

Or if you had the cash you could have a look at
http://www.adverts.ie/other-sports-fitness/archery-straw-target-butt-128cm-with-stand-good-condition/2305066

..Brian..

Ah apologies, looks like I'm referring to "super" butts like THIS.

greysides

I'm not familiar with these butts. I've seen butts like them sold with kids bows. Are they thick enough for reasonable poundage? Say, 30-40#.

SteveBabyface

I don't think you are going to get much left of a superbutt for €20. In saying that they are really easy to get your arrows out of, I have a 128cm straw butt which getting arrows out of can be a pain in the butt

..Brian..

greysides wrote: »

I'm not familiar with these butts. I've seen butts like them sold with kids bows. Are they thick enough for reasonable poundage? Say, 30-40#.

That would be my concern as well. They don't look as if they would have a lot of stopping power.

fenris

Two together with layers of foam/carpet in between may have some stopping power, but one on their own, I wouldn't chance with anything heavier than a kids 16lb or maybe arrows that I want to remove the fletching from!

maughantourig

I have the exact model of blue butt as shown above.

Its adequate for my poundage, (27 pounds), but 30-40 would pierce through the other side.

I would certainly not recommend that butt for any poundages beyond 40.

I've had the butt for at least a year and I can no longer place targets at it's centre as my arrows are in danger of going straight through, (even at my low poundage). Once the blue material at the back begins to disintegrate, the butt is far less effective at stopping arrows.

For 30-40 pounds, I'm guessing that you would want at least 2+inches at close ranges of a specially designed straw butt. I wouldn't know about the foam ones.

That DIY target above looks quite interesting though. Might be worth a try.

SteveBabyface

Here's a 60cm one from Merlin for £39.00 http://www.merlinarchery.co.uk/60cm-layered-foam-archery-target.html
Good luck with the shipping

fenris

That is exactly what you need, light, weatherproof and capable of holding up for more than a few hundred arrows.

I have two in my back garden and they are the business. It is also much easier to pull the arrows from the foam butt than from proper straw butt.

I shoot recurve and compound, the butt will stop an arrow from a compound at 10m with about a quarter of the arrow protruding from the back.

With shipping cost from Merlin taken into account, you may be better off buying locally and collecting from the shop, I got mine from Keith at Archeryshop.ie he had a load of them in stock.

greysides

As a matter of interest, Quicks Archery now sell replacement foam strips for the layered foam butts.


http://www.quicksarchery.co.uk/superbasket/product/2419/QT18+Super+Butt+spare+foam+pre-cut+130cm+long+x+30cm%3B+enough+for+10cm+depth%3A+Colours+may+vary

booom

I'm not familiar with these butts. I've seen butts like them sold with kids bows. Are they thick enough for reasonable poundage? Say, 30-40#.[/QUOTE]

They'll do for that range, not a lot more though- wouldn't trust it with a compound, unless like myself, you have a bale of compacted cardboard behind it. Someone mentioned the middle getting shot out- true, but then what you do is get 4 40cm faces and shoot out all the corners- lasts a whole lot longer.