Making bag targets

[Kevin L.]

I've been saving all of my wood pellet bags for stuffing bag targets, and a friend who has a small coffee company sent me some heavy burlap bags. What else do y'all use in making them? I've seen some with cardboard inside the faces then stuffing, some with stuffing only. Gotta get some new targets made up for the season, so let the suggestions fly.

[moebow]

Kevin,  Just jam them full with plastic sheeting.  the stuff often found around construction sites.  You can buy it too at any homecenter.  Just wad it up and jam it in then sew the end closed.  I've never found a bow of any type that will shoot through and arrow removal is easy.

[Fletcher]

Pallet wrapping plastic and plastic bags from the store work well, too.

[bsigal]

Kevin, I've always stuffed them with shredded rags and never found any arrow that it wouldn't stop.  Arrow removal is no problem.

[Marvin M.]

Plastic Grocery bags.  Keeps them out of the landfill too.

[reddogge]

I get the night crew at a supermarket to save the pallet plastic for me and stuff it in 100# plastic feed sacks I scrounge from the feed store.  Cheap=$0.

[Kevin L.]

I have the burlap and those heavy plastic bags that wood pellets come in. I was wondering if I need anything else on the inside faces to support and help the burlap retain it's shape and even out the thickness. Maybe a sheet of heavy cardboard or something?

[Oregon Okie]

I used two burlap bags on mine for extra durability. Seem to hold up pretty well.

[Curtis Roberts]

Burlap Sack filled with air cleaner filters.  Works good with two finger arrow removal.

[BigArcher]

I picked up some grommets at the feed store. Pretty easy to install and makes tying the pags up easier.

BigArcher

[macbow]

Another way to tie them up. Before sewing shut put a small ball or even a rock in each top corner then tie rope or wire around the insert to hang from. Will be stronger than the grommets.
Ron

[Kevin L.]

Ron, I have some golfballs that will never see their intended use at my house, so I planned on putting them into the corners. I figure two up top to tie onto and two in the bottom corners to tie off to something to stop the swing.

[Frank V]

Another nice thing about bag targets is that when they get scruffy just stuff the whole thing inside another bag stitch up the end & go again. Frank

[martin guy]

Kevin,
Care to share some of the burlap bags.  

Andy

[TNstickn]

pallet plastic/shrink wrap free and last a looonnngg time.  

[Doug S]

At certain times of the year Menards gets coffee sacks heavy burlap in. Check the nursery (plants)dept. They were .50 last time I bought some.

[Mechslasher]

i do all of the above but run a small pvc pipe down the top for support.  keeps the bag from "caving in" in the middle after being shot several times.

[Chester Thompson]

How well do these hold up to broad heads?

[moebow]

Broad heads will cut up the bag.  Not recommended!!

[Kevin L.]

Yep, broadheads make short work of bag targets.

Andy, let me see what I can do about getting some more bags. This guy is a small, one-man op so supply varies.