For you that use them, Do arrows pull hard from them when you penetrate them ?

My experience with conveyor belt is get the knife out and open a slit to relieve pressure to get arrow freed.

Yes, not for targets,just the occasional miss. Backstop for safety. Much better for arrows that wood. >>>>-----> Ken

Yes, they are hard to pull out. But keep in mind you should only be using them as a backstop and not as the target face.

And, depending on what field point you use many just bounce off.

Mine just barely stick, then fall out. Once in a while one will hang till I go to pull the arrows, but I have never had one that was hard to pull.

Should have been more specific, not using for target but back stop behind straw bales even though I have compressed them some arrows are finding there way up to fletching. Maybe they will slowed enough to not penetrate the rubber.

They do pull hard but they will come out. If I completely miss my target and hit the stall mat, I will sometimes have as much as 2 or 3 inches of protrusion but with a little wiggling and pulling all is well with the carbons.

We used them for years (mining belt) on our field target butts for backing. They withstood compound bows and field point arrows pretty well. If you hit one directly it could penetrate, but sure better than losing an arrow or bending/breaking them. Works great for backing.

I've got some old carpeting and a 1/4" thick rubber/foam mat hanging on the sides of and behind my target. A field tipped arrow shot from a heavy bow will still penetrate these barriers but the arrow is slowed enough that by the time it hits the back wall of my target shed there is minimal penetration and they come out easily.

Yes, it is hard to remove. Putting an arrow in one is not ideal, broadheads especially. Saved my wood fence a time or two though....

theyre hard to remove. never needed a knife but i do unscrew the point from the back sometimes

I never had an issue pulling them out. I’m shooting 35-40lb bows and not penetrating through the matt.

When you install a stall mat just hang it from the top edge so it's free swinging and can absorb the impact. I rarely get complete penetration with bows up to 60#s.

My stall mat is several inches behind canvas tarps. I use blunts and shoot at practice plastic golf balls suspended in front of the tarps. If one gets to the mat it just bounces back. My arrows are laying on the ground in front of the target.

Before my stall mat was a stall mat, it was a coal conveyer belt at a power plant. I just pulled it up off the floor and started using it for a back stop. Everything bounces off.

With our field targets, we let the bottom loose so the matt would give a bit on impact. You get a lot less issues with penetration when you do that, and the matt is still going to stop the arrow.

A direct hit with field point out of a 45# bow will penetrate several inches but a good firm yank will pull it out.

Yes, but a good steady pull.. they come right out.

I bought one at the local Tractor Supply this spring - 4'x6' and it's a pretty substantial piece of rubber. It lays on the floor of my out building with the mower on it but I want to get it mounted and am looking for some suggestions as to how you mount your mat?

Fence posts - pressure treated lumber? How do you attach it? I thought about lag bolts and fender washers - don't want it sloppy.

Mark, as has been mentioned, don't attach it all the way around. If you put in two treated posts, with a doubled 2x4 across the top, just hang the mat using the washer headed torx head screws.

It may take two people to do it as it is hard to hold up there and screw at the same time.

My current one has been out in the weather year round for the last 8 years and still looks about like new.

This is mine almost finished

Bruce, Thanks for the input - looks like Marlon has his set up almost exactly as you suggested. I think that looks to be the ideal way to go. Thanks again guys!

Mine is set up like Marlon's except I put a roof over the top to keep the snow off and use compressed straw bales from Tractor Supply.

Mine is bolted to a 1 by and then wired up to a cross member screwed to two 3x4s. I have a 36x36" piece cut in half wired to my fence protecting either side. Here you can see only one side. From any shooting position it appears as a solid backdrop.

Ok so ended up securing that the mat at top corners with large deck screws to compression board covering the straw bales so it's hanging and not stretched tight. The arrows are hitting it but not penetrating, working great so far.

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