Homeade target

[Richie]

Has anyone ever tried to make a target. I have recently used some industrial ceran wrap stuffed in a cardboard box. This seems to stop the arrows very well , except the back of the box gets blown out.

[lpcjon2]

I get tight celled foam dumpsters behind the big chain stores and tape them together and they work great.

[StickBowManMI]

Buy an Ames pillow target with a picture of a Whitetail on both sides and stuff it with plastic bags. It will be cheap ,light to carry around and will be effective for field points. When it appears to develop a whole in one spot, place it flat on the ground and step on it. It will be good as new!

[Living_waters]

Carpet padding layered vertically in a card board box.

[Stumpkiller]

One feedsack stuffed with a dozen feed sacks.  When it gets beat . . . stuff it into another feed sack.  Works great.

 

Keeps the chickens and turkeys happy, too.

[acadian archer]

cardboard box filled with rags. remove the buttons and zippers. fill the box then tape it shut. ut out a circle and then use two flat pieces of another boes sides to use as backing for a paper target. When you shoot it out, just replace the individual sheets and fluff the rags up again.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I also use feed sacks stuffed with feed sacks. You get all you want from Horse farms.

I have used the box with shrink wrap balls. I catches an arrow well but like you said wears out fast.

[Mudd]

I use a burlap bag filled with Walmart bags.

God bless, Mudd

[jsweka]

Feed sacks are great!  I baught one of those pillow type targets with the poly-fil stuffing inside about 15 years ago.  Once the outside back started getting shot up, I stuffed the whole thing in a feed sack and since then I just keep restuffing into new feed sacks when it needs it.  I go through about a half dozen feed sacks a year and shoot nearly everyday if the weather is decent.  Costs about $2.50 per year to shoot.

[boznarras]

Another source for feed sacks is the large bags of dog food, like the 40 pound size.
Look for the kind made of mesh material, not paper. Of course this source works only if you have a need for that dog food anyway. Or know someone who does...

I turn the sack inside out before I stuff it, so that I am NOT shooting at a picture of a dog; that would put me in the dog house around here.I stuff mine with other sacks, plastic shopping bags, plastic wrapping off freight, etc. I close it with some cord laced through holes poked with a knife, and spray paint some dots on both sides to shoot at. When it starts to leak, I just put it all into another new sack.

[PrarrieDog]

I took an old motorcycle tire, cut the rims in several places (so I could pull back the edges.
I cut cardboard and filled it up. Hung it between two trees. It's lasted very well.
All I have to do is rotate the cardboard and add more occasionally.

[Encino Man]

Use the deer corn sacks filled with plastic grocery sacks.

[barebow17]

I buy the white seed bags from the local grain store.The large ones are .70 I stuff them with the old bags.

[landman]

Beautiful bows there Stumpkiller

[Jethro21]

I have started filling old milk jugs with the cheap spray foam I get at home depot. Good for tossing around the yard or hanging on my back stop. It holds up pretty well and the 1/2 gal jugs really test your accuracy.

[Ari]

Yeah I use horse feed bags, they stop an arrow easy and they are pretty light.