Filling a Burlap Bag Target

[yaderehey]

Anyone ever use foam packing "peanuts" to fill one of these?  I shot at another fellows a few years ago that had some kind of packing peanuts in it and it worked really well.  Arrows only penetrated 6 to 10 inches and pulled out with ease.  I just stuffed a burlap bag target really full of styrofoam peanuts (about 24" thick) and I am zipping arrows clean through the bag at 15 to 20 yards.  His must of had a different type of peanut.  Any suggestions on what I should try next?

[beaver#1]

not sure on this.  maybe you need to pack it tighter.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

The best thing to stuff these with is plastic grocery bags.  Use sticks to stuff them down into the corners and make sure you get them packed tight and you won't shoot through it with any bow and it will last a long time.

[Fishnhunt]

grocery store plastic bags
 
old clothing/old sheets

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

I also forgot when the target wears out you can just buy a new bag and stuff it with the same plastic sacks.  they can be recycled a couple of times before you need to use new ones.  I've made a couple of these for myself and they work well.

[Jerry Wald]

I like shrink wrap - most delivery places or trucking outfits have lots - i generally just leave them a grain sack - when they fill it I pick it up...EZ

jer Bear

[BowHuntingFool]

Yeah, I stuff mine with the grocery bags, bubble wrap you name it! A great cheap target that lasts a very, very long time!

[beyondmyken]

The heavy plastic bags used for water softer salt, fertilizer and mulch is pretty good too.

[champ38]

Yep, You can stop by just about any furniture store  (at least ive been able to) and ask for the plastic that covers there furniture durinng shipping (maybe the same as shrink wrap) But the few Bags i stuffed a year or so ago are still going strong. Like mentioned just slip another bag over when the bag gets too shot up.

[joe ashton]

wal-mart bags work  well, and lord knows there are plentiful..

[lpcjon2]

can't you just wait till trash day and get a couple of seat cushions off a trashed couch someone throws out.

[yaderehey]

Thanks for all the tips!  I'm gonna stop by the furniture stores and see what they can give me.  I thought I had a lot of grocery/Wal-Mart bags on hand, but they wouldn't begin to fill my target.

[Jim now in Kentucky]

The thin grocery and WalMart bags are great. I have restuffed them in new bags 4 or 5 times. The feed bags I stuff them in get shot up, but not the contents. (Don't try broadheads though!)

Jim

[Autumnarcher]

I have a pellet stove, and use the empty wood pellet bags. Another great source- if you have a boat marina nearby that stores boats for winter, every springwhen the boats come out of mothballs they remove all that shrink wrap plastic from th boats. It usually ends up in teh dumpster, but if you ask them, they will give you all you want. Its heavier shrink wrap than is used for furniture, a couple boats worth will pack a bag target nice and tight.

I have 2 bags in my basement that we pound the daylight out of all winter, and I re-use my stuffing. Pack it as tight as you can, cut big pieces into smaller ones as it packs better.

Just dont shoot 'em with broadheads, you'll never get your arrow out.

[highpoint forge]

Grocery store bags. Stops 'em dead.

[BlacktailBowhunter]

Another vote for shrink wrap. My bag has about 8" thick of shrink wrap made by my friend Micah that works at a warehouse.

This bag is in the hallway of my house where I can shoot up to 12 yards.

 

[freefeet]

I just go over to my local furniture store and get all the plastic wrapping that the beds and mattresses come in - it's quite tough stuff.

They seemed quite happy to get rid of it all.

I just roll each bit up as tight as i could get and kept stuffing the rolls lengthways into the sack.  Stapled the end shut with my desk stapler.

Works brilliantly and cheap as chips - as we say in England.     :D

[reddogge]

I have a couple of contacts at super markets (night crew managers) and they will save me all of the shrink wrap generated from the deliveries.  Each trip I get enough to stuff 2 or 3 feed bags which I scrounge for free at the feed store.  I have 10 stuffed and hung around the property with more to come.
 

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I have a friend who works in a warehouse, told him to save me a little shrink wrap and now have more than necessary.  Also local horse farms save me feed sacks, i stuff 1 feed sack full of other feedsacks.  Works very well.

In my basement I stuff a cardboard box full of shrinkwrap and I usually have to replace the box after a couple hundred shots.  The inards are still good!      

[saddlesmith]

Some years back I took a twin size mattress, peeled off the outer shel and then cut the cotton free. By paying attention on how you fold the cotton it can be folded up to just about the same size as your bag.
I shoot this bag for a couple of years until injury made me quit shooting.
Most of the newer mattress seem to belined with foam asI just found out when I made a new bag. Seems to work fine.Hadn`t had a chance to use it much yet.But any cotton or foam seems to work fine.Give either one a try, if nothing else it`s a cheap way to go. Good Luck!