home made fun to shoot targets

[yeager]

Here's the Kangaroo I made last year.

[yeager]

One more with my wife and good hunting buddy bfisherman11 and his wife.

[Sean Butler]

That triceratops is priceless!

[luv2bowhunt]

Those targets are awesome!! How did you make those??

[yeager]

They are made from 4'x8'x12"-18" blocks of styrofoam, sometimes 2 glued together to get the thickness, rough shaped with an electric chainsaw, and finally smoothed out with a wire brush.

Too cover them I use burlap.  To apply I use either spray-on glue or wallpaper paste.  Some animals we have like the muskox, leopard, and our club's mascot, BigFoot, are actually covered with fake fur from a fabric store.  These I use spray-on glue.

After the animal is dried,  I just use flat latex paint from a locl hardware store.

Fun to make and more fun to shoot!

[eric-thor]

i like shooting at golf tee's it makes me consentrate real hard and my groups get tight as a result. not to mension its fun and a little if you have a friend to shot with and race to see who hits it first.

[eric-thor]

very cool targets yeager . they look familliar i used to live in northern il. and remember a shoot there that had targets like that. including a huge elephant. lots of fun!!!          

[luv2bowhunt]

Thanks Yeager... I am going to have to try that sometime! How well do the targets hold up??

[marsniper27]

Yeager where do you get the large foam?

[Onehair]

Plastic Coke bottles hang up nicely and are easy to come by. I have a trail of them on my place.

[lpcjon2]

The balloons work great,and I like to put objects(chairs and such) in the way around the yard so as to have obstacles to shoot around like in a hunting situation.And try the foam or wiffle balls from a string they wont bounce back.

[Sean Butler]

the nursery i work for has a small pig shaped watering can.  I have read about people using great foam to make targets, and i was wondering if filling this thing up with the stuff and letting it dry for a bit would work or not?

these things are not selling so i may be able to pick up a few for cheap.

[agd68]

I make duck targets from expanding foam and an old decoy. Split decoy about 3/4 in half along the seam, fill half with foam duct tape the decoy together and let foam cure. Works pretty good and is fairly cheap. Glue wem to a peice of pine board and they work good in the water too.

[ber643]

The great foam works good for target repair so it should work in the pig watering can - remember that it expands - LOL. You can cut off the extra (over-expansion) with a sharp, thin knife easily.

That Triocertops belongs at ATAR in WV with all the other Dinos - LOL (I'm jealous)

[brinkwolf]

Man Yeager, can you imagine going to a 3d shoot were Yeager made the targets? Walk up to shoot and look up to see a 40' T-Rex looking at you.