Cheap Arrow Targets

[ThePushArchery]

Anyone have any creative ideas for arrow targets for those of us that don't feel like spending $40 on a low end "block"??

[jacobsladder]

feed bag stuffed with shrink wrap or plastic grocery bags.... cinch the top and your ready to go....

[ZaneD]

Exactly.

[Arwin]

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.

[geno]

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...

[capt eddie]

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.

[Richie Nell]

Game Winner field point target at Academy Sports for $19.  Best I have shot.

[rg176bnc]

Ive been liking a hay bale I picked up.

[Ian johnson]

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

[vermonster13]

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.

[celticknot]

try a stray dog or cat just kidding lol

[Mark Baker]

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!

[Stone Knife]

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.

   

[Flinttim]

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.

[Aeronut]

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

[JoeM]

Hey Flinttim,
Fellow canvas guy here.  I'm cleaning up the shop today.  Gonna give your idea a whirl.  Joe

[geno]

an other place to get foam would be from floating boat dock makers. I think that would last for years.

[UKarcher]

3Rivers have the target bags on offer at the moment. I just bought one for $13.
Graham

[Jon Stewart]

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.

[zirnsak]

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.