Target block for my crossbow.

[matitude]

Im looking for a target block for my crossbow. I have an Excalibur 380 matrix and use field points and broadheads. It says its 380 fps but Im sure its actually around 350fps with the bolts, field tips and string they are sold with. I have shot 3 different foam targets from 20 yards and every time my bolts have almost completely passed through leaving about 6" of my bolt buried in the target and the rest sticking out the back side. The problem with this is that its starting to wreck and deform my fletching's. Im looking to see if anybody else has had this problem or found a specific target that would stop the arrow before the fletching's enter the target. Thx

[Species8472]

Rhinehart 18-1. Will take any bolt from any crossbow (I shoot a matrix 405) with any head and leave lots sticking out the front of the target.

[Exo200]

I'm using the crossbow block with my 380 and works well but getting soft now after a few years ... be hard pressed to beat a rhinehart.

[matitude]

Just the type of info I have been looking for, thx

[mastercaster]

The best target is home made. Take a feed bag and stuff it super tight by hand, with any or all of this stuff - plastic grocery bags, garbage bags, saran wrap, and pallet wrap. Any thin film plastic. Once the feed bag is stuffed full, just use a tie strap to close off the bag. Draw your target spots with a permanent marker.

Your field tips won't penetrate more than 3 or 4 inches and can be pulled out with 2 fingers every time. Keep turning the bag and flipping it to use new undamaged areas of the bag. Once the bag is wore out, simply stuff the guts of it into a new feed bag. The target will last a life time, with a few extra feed bags on hand to re stuff. Each bag is good for a few hundred shots.

Might take a long time to come up with enough bags and pallet wrap, but its worth the effort. I had a friend who managed a grocery store and I simply brought him a half a dozen feed bags and he got his employees to stuff them for me. The 6 bags were enough to make 2 targets, once they were tightly repackaged by me.

By far the best target for arrow removal.

MC

[matitude]

I'm using the crossbow block with my 380 and works well but getting soft now after a few years ... be hard pressed to beat a rhinehart.

Is that the Rinehart XBow-2-Go Self-Healing Crossbow Target that you were talking about?

[yellow dog]

I bought a ShotBlocker -Travel Pro made by Delta McKenzie at Canadian Tire last week for $69.00. I target shoot with my Excalibur Exocet and lots of arrow still sticking out for easy removal. Highly recommend it.

[matitude]

Yellow dog - I actually picked that one up earlier this week from Canadian Tire and all 5 of the shots I took at 20 yards buried my fletching's leaving nothing out the front of the target and exposing about 10-12" of arrow out the back side.

[yellow dog]

I had it out closer to 30 yards and it would bury them at 20 yards. Set my scope at 30 yards and was dead on accurate.

[4weight]

I have a crossbow black block for my matrix 355 and it has plenty of stopping power for the bolts.