Stuffing material for an indoor target?

[dnurk]

I'm going to make a large indoor target for close up practice to work on my form and keep strength during the winter.   I've got a flat screen TV box which should work perfect but I've got to come up with something cheap and light to stuff it with.  

Anybody build something similar and of so what did you use for the stuffing?    Not sure what they use in those bag type targets.    Some kind of plastic I would assume.  

Thanks for any insight.  

Dn

[Hermon]

Grocery store plastic bags, or anything similar stuffed into a burlap bag works great.   Stuff it tight and shoot away.

Never tried it in a cardboard box though.

[Lineman72]

I concur with the plastic bags. Also t shirts work really good

[timbermoose]

Dumpster diving behind mattress/furniture stores yields a lot of stuffing for targets.

[habujohn]

Any of the plastic wraps will work.  I have a friend that gets kayaks in plastic wrap and uses this for stuffing and it works great.

[Chad Orde]

if your indoors old cloths work great! Outdside only polyester clothes cotten will MOLD! Synthetic stuffing for quilts from Jo Ann fabric works great indoors and out.

[Brandywine]

Ditto on the mold risk.  Had a nice, high grade indoor target that emitted a dead mouse smell in our hallway once it got punctured a few times.  The contents were 100% synthetic, but they were somehow contaminated.  Smell subsided after a few weeks.  

Plastic bags work.  Don't use bubble wrap.  It's not going to be dense enough.

Regards.

[Brad Arnett]

I agree with any of the plastic stuff. I see your in Indiana so they probably use some it there too, but I get the heavy duty shrink wrap that is used on boats for storage. They are usually happy to let you take some.....at least they are here. I stuff it into feed sacks. I have more of them here at my place than I know what to do with. When one starts to get shot up I just slide that one into another sack.

[gonefishing600]

Find a bike shop in your area, and call them to find out when there next shipment of new bikes is, and tell them you want all the plastic material in the box. They will love you for coming by and taking it away for free. You won't believe the plastic wrapping that's used in one box.

[Wandering Archer]

Plastic grocery bags, shrink/plastic wrap in a burlap bag.
The burlap parts and doesn't get punctured and worn out like cardboard will.
I've never had an arrow come out the other side of my bag full of grocery bags. I would totally put it in my house.

[MnFn]

I think Snag posted back awhile ago that he used rough wool directly from newly shorn sheep.  Should be cheap enough as farmers don't get much for it, unless things have changed in recent years.

[Bldtrailer]

This is my life time dyi build in door     or button and zippers)) are the best stuffing    

 http://archeryreport.com/2011/04/diy-lifetime-archery-target/