homade target

[RaybowTx]

I've been making bag targets for the last 20 years.  I'd like to shoot more broadhead practice but the foam targets are pricy for my income.  I was looking on the webl at foam materials and really havn't come up with an monitary solution.  Have any of yall found a raw / availiable material that makes a good target?  thanx.........Ray.........

[jacobsladder]

straw bales or sand

[Neutron]

A good pile of dirt is the best target backstop there is. You can shoot at styrofoam cups and such.  Wish I had one in my backyard now as there is a 2117 burrowed in under the grass or into the very soft soil of my back yard right now that I can't find.  I had one go like 2 years before I caught a glimpse of it, my soil is too soft.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Get a feed bag and fill it with plastic bags  don't last to long with BH's shot in to them , But they work. You can also put them inside a bow and extend their life some.

[RaybowTx]

come on fellers.  I've done my time in dirt, hay and the such and have destroyed bag targets after the first shot to retrieve my first shot broadhead.  Sinthetic material is what I'm talking about. thanx though.......Ray......

[always89s boy]

We bought 9 big pipe insulation blocks from a guy down the street (around a dollar a square each one is about a 1.5 ft by 1 ft.). We placed them in three rows of three and built a wooden frame tightly arount them. When we shot out the middle block we replaced it with one of the side blocks and it lasted about a year and thats with me shootin around 20 arrows a day.

It worked great with braodheads.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

go to home depot and get some of the insulation foam sheets. You can glue them together and cut out any shape you want.. Dick did one that looked like a Javie. You can also get the spray form Greatstuff and fill a box or feed bag and have a nice target.

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

I built a sand pit , to hold the sand in a pile I built a frame around it with 4 corner posts 4X4 and quarter round decking boards on the sides . Never wears out .


Jack

[Dick in Seattle]

here is the link to "Making Herman"... my foam broadhead practice javelina:

 http://oldpharttsarchery.com/shooting-adventures/bigbadwolf/makingherman/makingherman.html

Worked really well.  I spent two and half weeks shooting him with broadheads and he's now in use with field points....    Have another hunt coming up early next year and will be broadheading him again.   Still hasn't needed any foam repair, which is as easy as squirting some Great Stuff into any area that becomes hollowed out.

Incidentally, practicing on him worked... I got my javelina!

[J. Adams]

That's a great tutorial, Dick.  Thanks for sharing with us.

[Jethro21]

Hey Dick, what was the total cost for that target?