Hello,
I am going to make my own archery target and I have found a few materials that potentially will work nicely, but before I buy I wanted to ask others, maybe some of you have already used them or seen them in targets and can tell how they will act.
To start it all off I have to say that I am very young in archery practice (just a couple of hours, took some lessons with a coach to learn the ropes) and now I want to make my own backyard archery spot. I've already bought a light, 20 pound recurve to work on my technique. My plan is to make a wooden frame (around 1x1 meter) and put the stopping-material inside.
The first thing that I found were EVA foam mats (100cm / 100cm / 4cm) and they seem OK considering I want the target to be resistant to external factors like rain, snow etc.
The next thing is just plain industrial rubber mat, but I am afraid, as it is way more dense than EVA mat, that pulling the arrow out will be a pain.
Next, I've found that you can use carpet scrapes, but, from what I have seen, they tend to get moldy if you let them get wet.
Last, but not least, I've seen that you can use regular cardboard, but that will surely get destroyed when it rains on it.
Saying all that, my questions are:
How many layers / much length of said materials do I need to stop arrows from my 20lb bow?
https://myip.kim/ https://birthdaywishes.onl/ https://elecpay.in/tneb/Isn't 1x1 meters target too big for a backyard range, where the maximum distance from the target would be something like 20-25 meters?
What should be the height of the target, does it change considering the height of the archer (I'm 1.93m tall).
Thanks for all answers.
