How to Set Up an Archery Range

By setting up your own backyard archery range, you can easily shoot several times a week. In a few months, you'll be amazed by your archery abilities.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Archery Sites
• Archery Arm Guard
• Archery Arrows
• Archery Bows
• Archery Gloves
• Archery Quivers
• Archery Targets

1. Find a spot for your range. This is the single most important aspect of setting up an archery range.

2. Pick a spot with a shooting position that allows enough space behind or to the side for onlookers to watch safely.

3. Make sure the spot has at least 25 to 30 yards of space between the shooter and the target. More space is always better - that way you can set up different distances.

4. Create a means of catching arrows that miss the target. This might only entail having an open field behind your range, or it could mean building a wall behind your target. Whatever you do, make sure that arrows that miss the target are not going to fly anywhere they can harm any persons or property.

5. Place your targets.

6. Measure the distance from the shooter to the target for your own aiming reference.

7. Get a stand for arrows and a pen and paper to keep score.

8. Observe all safety rules and use common sense whenever shooting.

Tips & Warnings

• Set up your range in a way that allows you to leave it set up. That way you won't have to hassle with a big setup process every time you want to shoot. You'll definitely do more shooting that way.
• If you need to build a wall to catch your misses, hay bales are great for stopping arrows without damaging them.
• Examine your arrows at the end of every archery session and repair damaged ones immediately. That way, the next time you want to shoot, you won't have to wait for glue to dry.
• Always know exactly what is behind your target.
• Use common sense in locating your archery range.

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on 8/8/2006 I am just getting back into archery, but when i was young, I used to take cardboard and lay it flat and compress it, then tie it, so that when shooting; the arrows would lodge in between the layers. This way the arrow is always easy to remove, without damaging the arrow or arrowhead.

on 8/8/2006 Check to see if there are any archery clubs in your area. They provide a good, safe place to shoot, are inexpensive, and most towns have one.

on 8/8/2006 Rocks and packed dirt are a bad thing to have on your range. If your arrow hits a rock, it will most likely be broken. If it hits a patch of packed dirt, it will ricochet off in an unpredictable direction.

on 3/17/2006 A burlap sack filled with plastic shrink wrap works very well. Pack it tight into the sack and sew the top shut with burlap string and hang them from a rope between two trees on your coarse. It's a cheap way to raise money for good 3D targets. That's what we are going to do up here in Clearwater, B.C. Canada and are working on stating a new club as well. Good shooting and be safe!

on 11/22/2005 take a top mattress and prope them up against something one behind each other in case the arrow is stoped the more powerful the bow the thicker the layer