Homemade archery target

[kgriz]

I was also going to agree with the sack full of cloths until I read AMBUSH's idea and that one only costs $21 and not too much gas mony as most of the bears are right around town anyways

[tactical308]

I would say spring black bears are one of the best targets and all natural.

A bright pin on a shiney black coat!! Mother Nature's most nearly perfect target.

Now where headed in the right direction,you reeeeeeely need to shoot good groups then.

[Riverjet]

This after 50 arrows using 100 grain pre season Montecs all for the low low price of $140. They say the Block is good for tens of thousands of arrows with field points and thousands with broadheads. I beg to differ!

[qhergt]

I had one of these Morelle Yellow Jacket Supremes



Shot the s**t out of the center until arrows sailed clean though and the stuffing was hanging out the back end.

I stomped on, sat on, laid on the thing to swish in all down as tight as I could then wrapped it up with 60 yards of the handyman's secret weapon.

That seemed to help for a while(another 400 shots) until it started falling apart again.

So, off to walmart I went.

1-6'x8' tarp =$7 aprox

As i left i took a look im the big recylcle bin and grabbed lots of card board boxes, some of those moulded plasitic style packing pices (not styrophoam but that other stuff)


I cut the tarp in half leangth wise so I had 2 3'x8' sections, those were folded in half and sewn into to 2 3'x4' bags.

I found a box that was just smaller then those dimensions and placed the box inside the bag




I then cut open the ols morelle target and seperated the stuffing from the burlap sacks that are in there.
Then I then rebuilt the target inside the box



folded down the lid of the box, pulled the tarp in tight anf folded it over the end of the box in a triangle as if I was wrapping a a gift



its not pretty but she did stop a 370 grain arrow with field point going 318 fps fired from a distance of 3 feet and left 45% of the arrow out with easy 2 finger removal.



The next target I built the same way but used more cardboard around the outside, a few old pillows in the inside and the sheets of that plastic foam in the middle.

This target is obviously lighter, but still stopped the same arrows with about 35% of the arrow left out for "hold the knock in your lips like a smoke" easy arrow removal.


Im in the process of making a broadhead target yousing that same plastic foam stuff and that spray able expandable sealing/insulating foam. Ill post my results later.

[qhergt]

the big boy...