Archery Target for use with Air Rifles

[kevhuynh]

To be specific, I have this here that I used with my compound bow.

https://www.amazon.com/Morrell-Double-450FPS-Archery-Target/dp/B002UIZWTE/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1590181054&refinements=p_89%3AMorrell&s=hunting-fishing&sr=1-3

Will this be enough to stop say a .25 caliber Marauder from 20 yards away? I'd imagine a compound bow has significantly more energy than the pellet and my bow doesn't come close to making it out the other end. Any of y'all used one before?

 

[Vetmx]

Yes

 

[ctshooter]

Probably, but you are going to destroy that target a lot faster with pellets and slugs than bolts. Well, unless you shoot at your target using broadheads.

 

[Vetmx]

I shoot through my chronograph into an archery target. Probably a thousand shots. It still stops pellets and slugs but looks like hell.

 

[kevhuynh]

Sweet, game on! Thanks everyone.

 

[ctshooter]

Good to know they are durable like that. 
One question - how quiet are they?

 

[Vetmx]

When new there is a snap when your pellets hit. Once you start to destroy the cover, pretty silent.

 

[Roachcreek]

As they all have said.

I am on my third Morrill crossbow target in 10 years. I have only had the Ranger 45 go through them, but that was 5 400 grain bullets in a tight group, on a very old target.

Stop using it as a air gun archery target if you use slugs, it can bend aluminum arrow when you hit a slug inside the target. I used to throw my old archery target on the burn pile on the vineyard when done with them, then reclaim the lead.

When the cover gives up, cover it with duct tape.





Regards,



Roachcreek

 

[ctshooter]

Cool - just ordered the one in the OP from Amazon. Been needing a good target refresh for indoors.

 

[Vetmx]

You know Roach rules the roost. If I would have fired through my house like he does, my wife would have banished me from her kingdom. 

 

[MikeVV]

Kev -

I use a foam block archery target.

Mine is plenty thick as is yours. I shoot .22 and .177. I haven't checked to see how deep they go, but I'd imagine, that with the pellets weight...or lack there-of, that they do not go very deep, no matter how fast that they may go. The foam is pretty grabby when it gets hot. As you know, arrows have to be twisted loose befor you can pull them from the foam. At least faster moving crossbow arrows do.

Mike

 

[gendoc]

Blobtargets.NET

i have had one of these for about 6 years using it with my excalibur crossbows and my son's scorpyd

crossbow.

also use it with my WP tuned dragon claw with AV airbolts and 125 striker mag broadheads.

itsa PITA to remove the arrows, but it ain't going to fail !!

 

[NickNorthGA]

I use one indoor with my .177 pistols but kinda iffy using anything above 40fpe. I have one outside just to help as a backstop. Im pretty sure I have seen 50fpe go all the way through(used a bunch by this point)

 

[gendoc]

I use one indoor with my .177 pistols but kinda iffy using anything above 40fpe. I have one outside just to help as a backstop. Im pretty sure I have seen 50fpe go all the way through(used a bunch by this point)

you talking about the blob target ?

i shoot 352fpe into it with my dragon claw with air-bolts, goes in about 4-5"

but i dont shoot non-arrow projectiles into it.

 

[vewdew]

You can just make your own with scrap wood and lots of cardboard, and you be surprised how well it will work and not to mention cheap to build.

 

[JeffDodge]

I use my archery targets for my airguns (Walmart ones) and I’m pretty sure my Kral goes right through it (60FPE+). Hmmm now I want to check, definitely pellets maybe not slugs