extending boss life

[grantwomack]

To extend layered foam boss life further, I'd recommend loosening the straps a little. The layers are pushed apart easier by the arrows so you don't end up with the foam being punctured. Packing them too tightly will mean arrows poke holes in 3-4 layers each shot.
I'd only recommend shooting fatter arrows from a reasonable poundage bow at it though, since anything too thin or powerful will pass through.

[cliveanne]

I'll go along with that, but how long will my target pins have to be in order to stay in? They are easily move by the wind even when inserted at an angle.

[gorbalite]

I stuff a nylon bag or something similar with plastic bags and hang it in front of the boss Good stopping power,arrow pulls out easily and can be left out in all weathers without rotting

[oldy]

Hi ,some years ago I invented a double target stand because the recurves were complaining that we were knocking out the target middles " sound familiar "?. The stand takes two soggy targets one placed approx 14 ins higher and behind the other ,which means the gold of the front target is in front of the blue/black rear target. The stand has to be just over 6 ft tall which is good because it moves the rear leg further back. Considering the state of the targets when we put them on this stand we get another 2 yrs wear out of them,you just keep rotating the rear boss. We now have several of them as the recurve archers like shooting at them because they are kinder to arrows.Also if anyone bangs down a high shot the upper boss will often save having to look for it.
If anyone is interested in making one up come back & I will post the correct measurements & little tweaks ie because the stand is deeper than normal its is nescessary to angle the bottom of the front legs so the stand sits flat on the ground. oldy

[dino1300]

One way to rejuvinate a straw boss is to soak in in watered down PVA glue.

1 big bottle of glue in a 5 gallon bucket of water sloshed all over and left to soak in.

Put a big plastic sheet under, like builders plastic. You can stack the bosses up, so put the worst one at the bottom, then apply some of the mixture. Then put the next on top and repeat all the way up. The solution slowly leaks through to the bottom bosses.

The bosses come out really hard again. The down side is that you need to wash your arrows after shooting, but this can be reduced if you put a wipe of silicon on the front.

[caveman]

i have made a back yard boss with my old carpet cut into layers like the fome one's cut some wood top and bottom and compressed it useing a car jack and two walls out me garden once compressed i then rap rope round it release the jack then HAPPY DAYS lots of shooting , it works just as well as any boss ive ever shot at but i have done this only on a small scale so far

[pwiles1968]

Originally Posted by caveman

i have made a back yard boss with my old carpet cut into layers like the fome one's cut some wood top and bottom and compressed it useing a car jack and two walls out me garden once compressed i then rap rope round it release the jack then HAPPY DAYS lots of shooting , it works just as well as any boss ive ever shot at but i have done this only on a small scale so far

Good idea using layered carpet, A Ratchet type Type down strap may be better and safer than Jack and Rope.

[pyroarch57]

Originally Posted by oldy

Hi ,some years ago I invented a double target stand because the recurves were complaining that we were knocking out the target middles " sound familiar "?. The stand takes two soggy targets one placed approx 14 ins higher and behind the other ,which means the gold of the front target is in front of the blue/black rear target. The stand has to be just over 6 ft tall which is good because it moves the rear leg further back. Considering the state of the targets when we put them on this stand we get another 2 yrs wear out of them,you just keep rotating the rear boss. We now have several of them as the recurve archers like shooting at them because they are kinder to arrows.Also if anyone bangs down a high shot the upper boss will often save having to look for it.
If anyone is interested in making one up come back & I will post the correct measurements & little tweaks ie because the stand is deeper than normal its is nescessary to angle the bottom of the front legs so the stand sits flat on the ground. oldy

I saw that in "The Essex Bowman" 2 years ago, a very good idea.
So if i`m not mistaken your name is John.

[oldy]

You've got me Pyroarc,my cover is blown,now I wont be able to slag anyone off.
Best Wishes oldy( John)

[elastoplastscavenger]

we were short of a boss before a competition this weekend. we had a straw boss that was quite thin and the stitching not very good so the outermost spiral kept popping off when it was being handled or arrows pulled with poor technique. after some head scratching i took a trip to B&Q to get 3 yards of soft wood dowel at 25p/yard. This i broke into approximately 9 inch lengths, sharpened them to points and carefully hammered radially into the boss while it was lying flat on the floor. problem solved and the dowel should hopefully not damage any arrows.