Please post your opinion

[gene roberts]

Hey yall.I was just wondring what the best back stop is.I prefer something that may just be laying around in the garage or something

[wvfknapper]

I like conveyor belt

wvflintknapper

[gene roberts]

I've never heard of that.

[Otoe Bow]

I like round bales of hay.  Probably not laying around your house or garage, but there's tons of them rotting away in at the edges of fields.  Don't pay for this year's hay because it will cost you an arm and a leg especially with the droughts and cost of diesel.  If you have a flat bed trailer, you may get a farmer to load one of his bales that's been sitting in the field for a few years for you.  To unload it, tie off to a tree with a loop around the bale and drive out from under it.  As it falls apart from use, you can mulch you garden with it. 

Otoe

[Ryano]

Ive seen people use old carpeting. I bought a big arse foam target from them boys down at Pappys last year and it works great.

[gene roberts]

Wow,thanks

[mullet]

  I have conveyor belt behind my target also.My field points bounce off.

[gene roberts]

Hmmm,where did you get it?

[gene roberts]

Anymore people.

[wvfknapper]

Gene,, The conveyor belt or also known as mining belt is a thick rubber belting material and works good to put behind straw bales to keep the arrows from passing through,,, thats what I consider a "Back Stop" something behind the target.

Mullet, do they come completely off ? Might need some new straw or get a ratchet strap and put around the center of the bales and crank it tight.

wvflintknapper

[Justin Snyder]

I am currently using a cinder block wall.   It stops the arrows great and I get lots of practice making arrows.  I better get some crusher belt. Justin

[gene roberts]

Cool

[cowboy]

I've been shootin into a pillow backed with a bale of hay . Have two four hundred pound rolls of crusher belt - that give's me some idea's. They work great for knapping hand pads too .

[wvfknapper]

Yes they do cowboy,, and you can cut a V notch in them so the flake comes off clean,, good technique for eden points.

wvflintknapper

[mullet]

  Gene,I work in the phosphate mines.There's plenty of old belt laying around.