home made throw-n-shoot target?

[sheepdogreno]

Anyone make their own small throw and shoot target? I was thinking about using a cat litter jug and filling it with plastic shopping bags. Then maybe some painted on dots around the jug. My only concern is the plastic jug melting onto shafts from friction. Or maybe a small box filled up with a handle fastened to it?

[dhermon85]

Tennis ball and a Judo

Originally posted by sheepdogreno:
Anyone make their own small throw and shoot target? I was thinking about using a cat litter jug and filling it with plastic shopping bags. Then maybe some painted on dots around the jug. My only concern is the plastic jug melting onto shafts from friction. Or maybe a small box filled up with a handle fastened to it?

You must have one heck of a fast trad bow if you are worried about melting the plastic from shooting at it!!!

Bisch

[timbermoose]

I use milk jugs filled with old rags for waterfowl practice.
Water bottle with rags for grouse size, and tennis balls for squirrels. All with steel blunts.

[sheepdogreno]

Originally posted by Bisch:
 

Originally posted by sheepdogreno:
Anyone make their own small throw and shoot target? I was thinking about using a cat litter jug and filling it with plastic shopping bags. Then maybe some painted on dots around the jug. My only concern is the plastic jug melting onto shafts from friction. Or maybe a small box filled up with a handle fastened to it?

You must have one heck of a fast trad bow if you are worried about melting the plastic from shooting at it!!!

Bisch [/b]

Haha I just know that the other homemade targets I have with plastic leave a smeared almost melted plastic down the shafts and it's kind of annoying!

[goingoldskool]

X2 on the tennis ball.

I use ace blunts.

Good luck and God bless,
Rodd

[Roadkill]

In a past issue of TBM a guy named bruce g designed one to launch coke bottles.  Works well

[sheepdogreno]

I'm more or less talking about a small throw target like a Rinehart ball. One you shoot then throw however far then shoot again and repeat. Not one for throwing in air.sorry didn't specify!

[Slickhead]

Take a small burlap bag and stuff it with walmart bags or get some nerf type balls at the dollar store
I like the nerf type footballs

[bretto]

Got any old cheap basketballs laying around?

I had two daughters who played a lot of ball. We ended up with lots of leftovers. They make great targets.

You can reshape them to roll even with several holes in them. I've got a 6-8' hill in my back yard I can throw it to the top and let it roll for a moving target.

bretto

[sheepdogreno]

Great ideas! Never thought of a basketball! Wonder if I cut it and fill it and tape it back up it will work OK? A ball or a cube is ideal so when i toss it  I can have a target every time. The jug idea seems like it will always land on its side now that I think of it....hmmmm

[bretto]

Just poke a hole in the BB and fill it with spray foam. I did one like that awhile back but didn't see the need to do it again.

The rubber ball takes a lot of abuse. It's hard to poke a Judo through a half flat BB with a 50 lb. bow. Field points go right in.

[Orion]

Hmmmm.  I wonder how it would work if one took the air valve out of an old basketball and filled it with spray foam insulation. Going to try it this summer.

[juneaulongbow]

Glue a few pieces of cardboard from the bottom of frozen pizzas together.

[sheepdogreno]

Originally posted by bretto:
Just poke a hole in the BB and fill it with spray foam. I did one like that awhile back but didn't see the need to do it again.

The rubber ball takes a lot of abuse. It's hard to poke a Judo through a half flat BB with a 50 lb. bow. Field points go right in.

I like that idea! Going to play around with these ideas this weekend... I'm wanting some way to shoot and arrow,chuck a target an unknown distance, and shoot another arrow...

[sheepdogreno]

I'm going to play with all of the ideas this weekend. Didn't have spray foam so I'm starting with my cat litter jug. I don't feel this will work like I'm hoping but we shall see. Stuffed with shopping bags and old t-shirts. Sharpie and some of my wife's pink nail polish...shhhh she's in bed!!!  

[Bud B.]

I tried spray foam on a milk jug. Not enough air got to it. The foam collapsed and ended up like soup. Maybe if you poked breather holes in it the trick might work.

Buy the cheap Nerf type foam soccer balls and poke a hole through it for a rope. Cut the rope long enough to have about a foot and a half "tail" to grab onto after poking it through the ball and knot each end so the rope won't pull out of the ball (a makeshift plastic washer helps)

Grab the tail and slingshot the ball  (David and Goliath type of slingshotting) for some good distance tossing and have at it.

Take it stumping with you, too. If in a hilly area, toss it uphill and shoot at it as it rolls down.

[Dry Creek]

Take a old soccer ball and drill a few holes in it, then use the spray in foam a little at a time. Don't try to fill it all at once or the foam will not be able to setup.  Kick and shoot. Fun to shoot it while rolling.

[ChuckC]

Pretty sure the foam needs some amount of air to puff up and cure right also.
CHuckC

[joe ashton]

I've have used milk jugs stuffed with plastic bags..  They work great. (without the stuffing they tear up your feathers)