Went to Big R and bought an arrow puller. Was the rubber wrap around kind. Useless. Couldn't get a grip since there wasn't enough room between the target and the fletching. I also bought a brand new layered foam cube hedging that I'd have to cut the other apart.
Which was fortuitous.
I had to cut the original cube apart and dismantle it to extract the arrows. It's a layered foam deal, but I pretty much destroyed the enclosure to do it. Guess I'll need to find a new cardboard box to pack them back in to.
The deepest of those damn arrows were only 1/4" from penetrating the
BACK of the 18" cube. The foam looks like it was MELTED to the thing. Even pulling individual sheets off was difficult to get started. Let alone 18" worth of them. (Arrows hit at a slight angle since I was elevated from the target, so they didn't slip in between sheets - they went through at about a 15 degree angle and penetrated a dozen sheets).
You're dead on about the damaging arrows - One arrow was damaged by another striking it when it hit, and was bent. Didn't realize it at the time but I almost robin hooded the damn thing. So after my first 3 shots I'm down one arrow. Have 9 left.
New pictures. I took the handguard off and borrowed a handguard from my SCAR, a rail bipod mount from my AR-15, and a harris ultralight swivel bipod from my FN-AR.
Now I have SniperBow.
(Hey, what can I say, it's Saturday night and I'm bored as hell)