I recently bought a Rinehart woodland series coyote. I've been shooting it for about a month now and I've never broken as many wood shafts in my life. There is some sort of internal metal frame that when hit will either break behind the point or completely shatter the shaft. This is with POC or doug fir shafts out of 47# to 53# bows. The internal metal frame is just fore and aft of the vitals insert which leaves very little room for error.

Anyone else have the same experience? I'm pretty disappointed with this purchase.

Sounds like an issue I would take up with the Company.

I've emailed the company, we'll see what they say.

Man that's a poor design! That would burn me up!! Thanks for sharing..Ive been looking at Rinehart for some 3D animals this past week..now you got me thinking! How about a thread on Rinehart Targets and peoples satisfaction? Or which ones have no troubles similar to this one?
Today I'm receiving a Rinehart 14"x14"  square target for taking with us camping..I want the Ten point buck and a smaller critter like a coyote or hog but I'm now a bit put off after your experience.

The Woodland series is Rinehart's less expensive line. The inserts are the nice easy pull foam, and the rest of the target is a more dense foam that is more difficult to pull arrows from. And I'm okay with that, I knew it before I made my purchase. What I didn't know anything about was the internal metal frame that destroys arrows. That's what's got me all fired up. The coyote is a small target and maybe that's why the metal is so close to the vitals insert, but if you're not drilling the vitals with every shot there's a good chance you're going to be breaking wood shafts. With a larger target like deer or pronghorn you may have a little more room for error, who knows?
I just bought a whitetail target from Big Shot/Real Wild, we'll see how it does once I get it.

At a shoot I took part in a number of arrows were destroyed on the huge male lion they produce and the metal was close to the kill zone.

You know what this reminds me of?  The deer targets that they have in some tournaments where there is a hole that you can shoot through over the vitals surrounded by a steel plate.  I hate these and voted against getting one for our club, but was outvoted.  If it wasn't so expensive, I would get one of these coyote targets and give it to the guy who brought it up and got it passed.

   I like your style Dave.   

UPDATE - I contacted Rinehart about the issues I was having with breaking shafts and they told me that they're no longer using the "woodland series" foam on any of their targets. They're using the signature foam (same easy pull self healing foam the inserts are made of) for the entire target now. They're sending me a new signature series coyote, which I think is pretty cool. I'll let you know what I think after I've had a chance to shoot it a bit.

Excellent!!!

McDave, I hear you. Losing or breaking and arrow is to be expected once in awhile. But to stand there and deliberately shoot at a steel backstop and hope you hit a small hole isn't the best use of arrows. That's why we gave folks the option to shoot the steel target or a foam critter. It  wasn't worth a few extra points to bust arrows like that.

Quote from: M60gunner on June 27, 2024, 07:20:42 PM
McDave, I hear you. Losing or breaking and arrow is to be expected once in awhile. But to stand there and deliberately shoot at a steel backstop and hope you hit a small hole isn't the best use of arrows. That's why we gave folks the option to shoot the steel target or a foam critter. It  wasn't worth a few extra points to bust arrows like that.

I went to a 3D shoot with a 20 target course of those steel targets. You were only allowed 6 arrows to shoot it... $10.00 entry fee & High score wins the pot!   I thought it was good sport myself... Definitely makes you concentrate on your spot. btw... all targets were between 12-20 yards, so it wasn't too tough.   Separates the men from the boys...    Kirk

To the OP..... Thats really cool they replaced your target!   

One of the targets (may have been others) at Compton's had a metal insert in it as well. A couple of guys in our group trashed arrows when they hit it, and they didn't miss the vitals by all that much.  Strange any target company would design a target with metal in it.