| Backstops indoors
We are having our new indoor range built. We are thinking of cladding the end wall in laminates of rubber, kevlar and foam faced to prevent bouncers from junior bows. the foab is available in sheets, and will be laminated to our specs. we spent some time testing it at 60 yards last night with compounds and recurves, shooting a variety of arrows. A 48# recurve shooting tungsten tipped X 10's did manage to penetrate the test block. Another layer of rubber will solve this. indoors the arrows will not have the same momentum and dpth of penetration we hope. The laminate is self sealing/healing, and will be symetricaly laminated so as to be reversable. We will support it on a wooden framework with an airgap behind.Back-stop netting will probably not be used. Opinions? |