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xtrema312
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Home made bag targets
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August 23, 2009, 03:57:00 PM »
I am ready to stuff up a couple feed bag targets. I noticed the one I have been shooting has a mix of stuff in it. Mostly it looks like the fabric items are strips of stuff. I figure that is due to it being scraps from some manufacturing process. I shoot brass inserts and they are a little larger than the outside of my shafts. They tend to hang up a little on anything they go through when you pull them out. I am thinking smaller pieces of stuff in my targets will make the heads tend to catch and push stuff through other stuff rather than penetrate items making it harder to remove the arrow. I was wondering if anyone has experimented with how large of pieces of things they put in their targets and if there was a difference in how well they work. I have a lot of larger items. I am wondering if I should just stuff them in or cut them down some.
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Re: Home made bag targets
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August 23, 2009, 09:24:00 PM »
plastic bags from the supermarket and just about everwhere else you shop. That's what I use. Easy to find. Easy arrow extraction. Stuff a feed bag full of these and you have a good target.
I need to find a new feed bag. The birds pulled mine all apart during spring nesting season.
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Shore08
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August 23, 2009, 09:34:00 PM »
I've thought about buying memory foam 'scraps' that are available online to stuff one with, but never pursued it. Anyone ever tried it?
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Red Beastmaster
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Re: Home made bag targets
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August 23, 2009, 09:36:00 PM »
I don't use fabric in mine, just plastic. Fabric would freeze up around here. I use shopping bags, water softener salt bags, old blue tarps (less grommets), mattress bags, and shipping plastic wrap. I might cut up the larger pieces into 3' squares just to make stuffing easier. I have never shot through one and most times it is two finger arrow removal.
I have 10 bags hung along a looped path on my course. I wire them to saplings 1-1/2' off the ground to stay above the snow.
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NorthernCaliforniaHunter
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Re: Home made bag targets
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August 24, 2009, 12:03:00 AM »
Plastic bags, shoved and packed as hard as you can. Takes a WHOLE MESS to fill a burlap sack, but short of single bevel broadheads nothing gets through.
And yeah, only my single bevels have managed this feat... more evidence of superior penetration?
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Rick P
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Re: Home made bag targets
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August 24, 2009, 01:21:00 AM »
Memory foam is to giving, holds water big time, molds and starts to stink, freezes in the winter and left a weird film on the arrows that stuck when I tired it. Besides plastic bags are free and the feed bags come with the animal feed I buy anyway. We keep a feed bag in the recycling cupboard and stuff it till full. I have a 3 lane target range and shoot allot. About the time one wears out another is full and ready to be hung.
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sweet old bill
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August 24, 2009, 04:54:00 AM »
I have been using feed bagfs and plastic bags from walmart for the last 12 years. I just get a new feed bag, I cut cardboard pieces to put on each side of the feed bag and then stuff with the plastic bags. I use wire ties on top to seal, the cardbard then gives you the ability to affix a paper target of deer or turkey to the outside of the bag... I use paper targets and gulue on carboar and they will last a 1000 or more shots, it is the cheap way to go....
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