Archery Backstop

[Pandabean]

What is the best way to make a cheap target/backstop for out in the garden?

I fancy getting my bow out after it living in the loft for the last couple of years and getting back into shooting it. Its only a 30-35lb (can't remember ) take down win & win recurve bow. The arrows are just aluminum jazz arrows, not even sure if they are made anymore.

[mountainm]

Hay bales.

Thick carpet and underlay for the surround.

[dwardo]

Big cardboard box stuffed with old sheets, plastic bags, carpet anything. Behind that you should have a wall just incase.

[boatman]

http://www.merlinarchery.co.uk/heavy...2-7m-x-4m.html Friends of mine even got a free cricket net of close nylon mesh that works well

[PeterH]

Archery in the garden ....... Good legal and public liability insurance :-)

[wattsy]

get some corrugated cardboard boxes (bigger the better) and cut them across the corrugations about 4 - 5 inches thick. get 2 bits of wood about the size you want the target and drill 2 holes the same place on each of them. thread both holes on one of the pieces with threaded bar and secure with a nut. then stack the cardboard strips onto the wood, piercing them with the threaded bar until you've got the right size (or you run out). put the other piece of wood on top, then stick a couple of nuts on and tighten as far as possible, so you end up with a kind of sandwich effect. cheap and last for ages too.
hope this was a help

cheers
matt

[wattsy]

Archery in the garden ....... Good legal and public liability insurance :-)

don't need it as long as the arrows stay within property boundaries

[boatman]

Household insurance probably covers you anyway as it does if you hit someone while practising a golf swing. Check with broker if bothered.

[Tony]

hay bales and scaffold netting...?

[Chainsaw]

another +1 for debris netting that the scaffolders use. Need 2 or 3 layers though, even stops my skinny carbons with no damage, just slows them down really nicely

cheers

Alan