Home made target

[ronp]

Here is my home made target.  It is made of 4 foot pieces of closed-cell foam like the block targets, squeezed together with scrap lumber and all thread.  Total cost = $0.00.

 

[carpenter]

Great job! I'll take one just like it please!

[D. Key]

Great target.  Where do you find the foam?

[marsniper27]

We need to know where/how you got free foam.

[Longspur77]

Where do you get the foam ronp

[ronp]

I get the foam from work.  Materials that we use are wrapped with it, and we throw it out.  I sometimes get about 20 or 30 pieces per week.  It seems like pretty good stuff.  I am going to bring some camping to put under my sleeping nag for a cushion.

[ronp]

How's that for a Freudian slip! I will put some under my sleeping BAG, not nag. She wouldn't like me calling her that!!! LOL

[JEJ]

Keep that up ronp and you will be trying to make that sleeping bag fit into a dog house ...  that's a nice target      

[ablebonus]

I just bought 3 sheets of 48" by 108" by 2" sheets of foam (~$50 each) from a foam warehouse here in Austin.  The guy I bought it from said it is the same foam a commercial target company in San Antonio (hipstargets.com) buys from them to make their targets.  

It is closed cell polypropylene foam so I bought some contact cement to glue it together. I was planning to shoot at the broad face rather than the "laminated" side as you have in your picture.  Does shooting at the laminated side work better?

As a new trad shooter I figure I can have a 48" by 36" target and ruin fewer arrows.  

[ron w]

 Sleeping nag,I love it!!!You must type as well as I do!!!

[dbishop]

ablebonus,

That foam might be great but you might want to check on using the contact cement.  I have a foam target that's cemented together like you mentioned and it seems like the arrow tries to "bond" with the cement when it penetrates the foam.  I am always having to clean the adhesive off of my arrows.  There may be a better adhesive out there that wont do this.  Maybe just cement the foam around the edges or something so that the arrow does not penetrate the foam where its bonded together.

Just an idea

Dave

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

go to a coffee roasting house and get a burlap sack. Shove it tight with plastic bags, wrapping, whatever... Stops arrows dead and is shaped like the torso of large game... $0.00

[ronp]

Hey NorthCalHunter,
I have a pretty good sized bag that I am going to try.  We have a bunch of that shrink-wrap plastic at work that we go through.  I will try stuffing my bag with that stuff.  Can't have too many targets.
Ron