Tree fell on my target and split it in half...

[lpcjon2]

Just use the front half and screw it to a tree.It will make you shoot better at those deer that only show half of themselves.Otherwise dowels and liquid nails will do it.

[wtpops]

Well humm at least you were not pulling arrows at the time!!  

[David McLendon]

cut some dowels to plug it together, glue back with liquid nails and fill in the gaps with great stuff.

[Kenkel]

I will second the Gorilla glue!  I have two cheap Mckenzie targets that the heads kept falling off.  I used gorilla glue to glue the heads on and can carry them by the head now if I want to.  Stuff foams up and holds good.

[Larry Jim Bob]

liquid nails works fine, my daughters got me a javelina target for fathers day one year and I set it out in the yard and shot it on sunday afternoon and when we woke up on monday morning a bear had hit it during the night and it was scattered around the yard in about six pcs that was about 15 years ago and i'm still shooting that target!

[jsweka]

If a tree falls on your target and you aren't around to hear it, did it make a sound?  

....Sorry, just couldn't resist  

[LA Trapper]

Hawk,
Liquid Nails will work.  F26 construction adhesive will work better and it is waterproof. Anyone that messes with 3D ranges is aware of using Liquid Nails.  F26 Construction Adhesive is available at lumber yards and Home Depot type stores.  It is made by Leach.  Clean the surfaces of loose material, make sure it is dry, spread the adhesive and hold it together.  You will need to clamp it, say with a ratchet strap.  It comes in a tube like toothpaste for small jobs and in a caulk gun tube for bigger jobs.  It is good stuff.  You can even glue things like bricks.  Another great product is the E6001 product made by Willamette Valley Company.  The same people that make the Shoe Goo adhesive.  E6000 if for indoors and E6001 is for outdoors.  Both are a silicone adhesive that will have some slight flexibility which may work well for a target.

All good products, Liquid Nails is cheap and well known. You just saw where Larry Jim Bob from Maine rebuilt his javelina 15 years ago. Man, that must be a hardy strain of javelina to live in Maine ---LOL!

Billy

[Roconman]

We have patched some up at our club with Liquid Nails and doweled them togather with 3/32 welding rods.Never had a problem damaging arrows.They make two grades of Liquid nail, get the heavy duty kind.

[hawk22]

here's the target.  i don't know what the odds are of this happening.

 

[Ssamac]

Sorry about your target, but could you tell us how this happened? Has to be a good story.

BTW, heavy duty liquid nails will do the job. Have a friend with a 3D course and he uses it all the time. Insulating foam, low expansion is good to fill the spaces after the glue job is done. I noticed it had the removeable vitals. You can glue the target with the vitals out so you can still replace them.It will be fine.

Sam

sam

[hawk22]

we had a pretty bad front come in last thursday with 40-50 mph winds and I'm assuming that's what brought the tree down.  Just kinda funny

[greg fields]

I made a full target out of two different 3d targets. After squaring the ends with a chainsaw, it was quicker than a handsaw.  I siliconed them together and drove 2 - 1/2 inch fiberglass dowels through them, but kept the dowels out of the main target area.  Its still working today.  I'd say you could do it with your target, but you would not be abel to use the replaceable vital function any more.  Good excuse to buy another target.