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ThePushArchery
Tradbowhunter
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 976
Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 09:52:00 PM »
Anyone have any creative ideas for arrow targets for those of us that don't feel like spending $40 on a low end "block"??
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jacobsladder
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Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 3161
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 09:55:00 PM »
feed bag stuffed with shrink wrap or plastic grocery bags.... cinch the top and your ready to go....
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ZaneD
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Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 391
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 09:58:00 PM »
Exactly.
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Arwin
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 3009
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 09:59:00 PM »
We don't throw away any cardboard here. I take a "Block" sized box and use more broken down boxes inside it to make the layers. Wrap the ends in duct tape and it should last you for 2-4 months.
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geno
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 675
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 10:00:00 PM »
those cheap styrofoam ones from wally world will last a good while.6 sides to shoot from $15. make a mess if you shoot in the house...
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capt eddie
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Posts: 318
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 10:01:00 PM »
Go to Goodwill and buy the used sleeping bags. Fold them over a rope between two trees. Or roll them in the shape of a deers body and wrap with duck tape. They will stop broadheads.
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Richie Nell
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 785
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 10:56:00 PM »
Game Winner field point target at Academy Sports for $19. Best I have shot.
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Richie Nell
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rg176bnc
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Posts: 241
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 11:12:00 PM »
Ive been liking a hay bale I picked up.
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Ian johnson
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Posts: 1608
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 11:21:00 PM »
I second the hay bale, i stacked two together, it stopped a .22 bullet, so it is now my target for bows and .22's
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vermonster13
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Posts: 14572
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 11:24:00 PM »
GO to Tractor Supply or any place that sells trailers. The trailers are delivered with Styrofoam blocks between them to prevent rubs. They make excellent targets and many places will give you as many as you can carry so they don't have to pay to dispose of them. I did a build-along of making a target with some this past summer here.
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celticknot
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Posts: 705
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 11:33:00 PM »
try a stray dog or cat just kidding lol
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Mark Baker
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Posts: 1633
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 28, 2008, 11:54:00 PM »
For stumping, I like to make a milk-jug course out amongst my stumps. I tie the plastic gallon milk jugs up off the ground. They sway with the wind...about the size of a turkey or vitals of a deer...and stop judos real well (or at least slow em down). Don't cost nothin' but the effort to set them up....and clean them up later!
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Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 05:27:00 AM »
I use feed bags stuffed with plastic bags, styrofoam blocks from Tractor supply. Then I spray paint a picture of an animal on them using cardboard templates.
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Flinttim
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Posts: 496
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 06:47:00 AM »
I use some leftover canvas from boat covers I have made and sew up a bag about 3 foot square. Then I save the shipping bags we seem to have coming in all the time and stuff them into the bag.When I can't stuff in anymore I sew it up and viola', a target. Something else that works- if you can obtain the foam from couch and chair cushions, 3 of them will stop arrows. wrap the three of them with a garbage bag or such.
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Aeronut
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 914
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 07:59:00 AM »
I have a big round hay bale. For small targets I take 20 oz. pop bottles and fill them with expanding foam. They take a lot of shots.
Dennis
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JoeM
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 1463
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 08:35:00 AM »
Hey Flinttim,
Fellow canvas guy here. I'm cleaning up the shop today. Gonna give your idea a whirl. Joe
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geno
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Posts: 675
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 09:17:00 AM »
an other place to get foam would be from floating boat dock makers. I think that would last for years.
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UKarcher
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 286
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 09:41:00 AM »
3Rivers have the target bags on offer at the moment. I just bought one for $13.
Graham
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Jon Stewart
Trad Bowhunter
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Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 09:51:00 AM »
At our hunting camp we dig a ditch and make a mound behind it with the dirt we dug out. Put two posts about 4' apart and string wire 16" apart from post to post. Use a cut out deer target that we cut out of cardboard and hang it from the top wire using the metal type shower curtain hooks. Works great. Make sure your sand pile doesn't have a lot of rocks in it though!!! To make things interesting we hang a coke can from the wire and shoot at it.
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zirnsak
Trad Bowhunter
Posts: 26
Re: Cheap Arrow Targets
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January 29, 2008, 10:19:00 AM »
I like all these ideas you are getting, I think while you are at it, it would be a nice thing to make your brother a few targets as well.... oh yeah that would be me! Sounds like we got some work to do over the weekends!!!! Great ideas guys.
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