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Best Broadhead Target

In 2016, I made a broadhead target by buying 2 sheets of 2" pink foam board. I cut the sheets into 2' squares and stacked them on top of each other making a 2' X 2' x 4'ish cube target. Taped it together with duct tape and started shooting. Every year, when I'm done shooting broadheads for the season, I use a can of spray foam and fill the holes. The tape has all rotted away, but the spray foam has worked as glue holding it together now. Honestly, its a better target today (though ugly as all get out) than it was 8 years ago and I shoot hundreds of large (old style snuffer) broadheads into it each year. Only draw back is when you hit the fresh foam, arrows tend to wield themselves into the target and can be a pain to pull and leave pink residue on them. Sometimes I solve that by spraying some cooking spray on my arrows, sometimes I just use another broadhead to scrape the shaft clean.

Sounds good enough to me… I just need a place where I can practice with the things; I have nowhere near enough yard, and that 1% or 2% of the club membership who couldn’t content themselves with shooting at this modest arrangement from out to 75-80 yards and just HAD to shoot the 3D course with broadheads pretty well screwed that up for everybody….

The blobs are really good, but your solution has got to be a LOT thriftier…..

Try silicone spray on the arrows.

I'm sure silicone spray would work as well. Cooking spray is always handy and works great. And yes, living on 5 acres outside of town has huge advantages!

I usually just get the Block when it's on sale at Bass Pro. I can get 2-3 seasons out of one. Now, I use BHs only for tuning the bow to the BHs and getting sighted in. Once done, I practice only with FPs on bag targets. I also have a Rhinehart with a replaceable center that I've had longer than I can remember. I take that one with me on hunts as it's small enough to just throw in somewhere. As for a homemade target, a while back I bought a 2' x 2' block of architectural styrofoam. I don't recall that it cost much, and it lasted multiple seasons through multiple users.

Great big sand pile is best broadhead target there is, never wears out.

Not cheap (currently list at $200) but you'll shoot an awful lot to wear one of these out. Rinehart 18-1.

Cardboard's always worked well for me. Just leave the layers loose enough so you can reach down and unscrew the broadheads before pulling out the arrows; the target lasts a lot longer that way. And it costs nothing.

Sand X2

A big no on sand for me. It wears down the front of carbon arrows pretty quickly, ruining the arrow, and I’ve had the same thing happen with a Blob target . Rinehart targets are great and the big Matrix broadhead target is the best I’ve ever owned and used. Buy once, cry once. You said the best, not the cheapest.

I'd put my pink foam target up against a big Matrix any day. (Well, not in a beauty contest, but definitely in a stopping broadheads with lots of margin for error) Like I said, I've been shooting large snuffers into it for 8 seasons now. I don't hardly shoot any field tips so 90% of my practicing is with big broadheads. Costs me a can of spray foam each year to "renew" and it gets better every year.

I just started shooting my new Sevr target and so far I love it. It's plenty big enough and the arrows pull very easily. Pricy though!

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