was going to buy a burlap sack deer target(unstuffed) from a magazine and was wondering what you all had best of luck as a filler that would stop an arrow.. thanks graybark
Stuffing from wally world, the stuff for pillows and I also use bags from the stores, old clothes. Just remember to stuff them loosely.. Don't pack it in tight...
ask in any shop for plastic stuffing. they get it when they receive stuff in the packages and throw it away, theyll give you as much as ou can transport.
I get my burlap bags from a coffee roasting shop in the closest big town. They give them away to whoever gets there first.
Go to your local grocery store and have them save their shrink wrap for a couple of days. There will be plenty to stuff even the biggest burlap target! Great for field points and some blunts but will not stop broadheads. For broadheads I buy 2" pink styrofoam, 4'X8' sheet, and cut into 4 - 6 equal pieces and glue together. Hope that helps.
El-cheapo plastic tarps.... anytime anyone was trashing one I would take it and use it later to stuff targets. Also pretty cheap at some of the close-out/surpluse stores.
I usually just hang mine on some hay bales as a target face. Works for me.
If there is a furniture store and/or furniture rental store nearby, the white styrofoam sheeting used to cover the furniture in shipment works well for me.
Empty wood/corn pellet bags, the ones for pellet stoves. Also shrink wrap or plastic drop cloth for painting.
I found a bunch of old plastic/nylon screening that a local tent manufacturer was tossing. Works great. I also have one of the U Stuff It deer targets filled with old woven plastic feed bags. Also works great.
Old window screens.
Stash all your used plastic grocery bags and fill them with those.
-Mike
Dan Quillains indoor range used ladies underwear LOL he told me it was seconds from a mill
worked great so my vote would be old clothes
QuoteOriginally posted by bobman:
Dan Quillains indoor range used ladies underwear LOL he told me it was seconds from a mill
worked great so my vote would be old clothes
and afterwards you can ask "did you hit a undie or a bra?" instead of "did you hit the kill?"
:biglaugh:
Go to Lowe's ask the dept.manager in lumber for the plastic sheeting that is used to cover the white wood during shipment. They get a truck once a week.
What Mike Mecredy said. Plastic grocery and walmart type bags, etc. Pack them in there real tight. Once you shoot up the burlap cover, and need to replace it, you can use the same filler plus a few fresh ones.
great ideas guys thanks, on the plastic grocery bags or plastic sheets do they need to be packed in tight or loose or just enough to be snug??
The tighter I pack mine, the less penetration I get. lol
I replaced all the bags (24) for the local archery club last year on the bow hunter range.
The Pres of the club works at K-Mart and brought truck loads of plastic bags and shrink wrap.
The shrink wrap works best to stop arrows. I stuffed the burlap bags full of plastic bags and compacted them with my feet. I filled the bags until I had just enough material to sew the top of bag shut 3/4 of the width of the bag. Then finished stuffing and sewed the remainder shut.
These bags were out since March of 2010 with hundreds of people shooting them. Some of the compounders are starting to shoot through them now but I still only get a few inches of penetration with recurve.
If you use shrink wrap and really compact it tight your arrows will bounce off sometimes.
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QuoteOriginally posted by saumensch:
ask in any shop for plastic stuffing. they get it when they receive stuff in the packages and throw it away, theyll give you as much as ou can transport.
Shrink Wrap
Any heavy plastic. Like Black plastic and the plastic bags used for potting soil work well.
QuoteOriginally posted by Mike Mecredy:
Stash all your used plastic grocery bags and fill them with those.
-Mike
Ditto!
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couple of extra thoughts:
1) Ames pillow target stuff best over my 10 yrs of use with shrink wrap throw outs like posted above. (Sears, or anywhere that gets stuff on skids, it's ALL shrink wrapped today.
Shrink wrap will stop anything if stuffed tight. It will stop shafts so fast, if you use helical fetch, you'll have to screw your field points back tight each shot! :)
2) if you buy the animal shapped targets from U-Stuff-It, the legs, ears and antlers require lighter guage material... they suggested and were correct that the store shopping bags and a blunt shaft to shove em up into the small parts TIGHT is the best approach...then the body can be shrink wrap stuffed!
Hope that helps.
Anybody ever open up one of the bag targets like the morrels? What do they use. I haven't shot mine out yet but it seems to be filled with pillow stuffing and some burlap. There is something else in there that is harder but I can't tell what it is.....yet.
Dave
Old tarps seem to be all over once you start looking for them, they work great. And the tip on the lumber yards is a good one. Any lumber yard has lots of plastic tarps the wood is wrapped in for delivery.
A good source for burlap is coffe roasting shops. I pay a buck each for them and stuffed with plastic they make a great target. Feed bags work good too.
what kind of coffe roasting shops are you talking bout? closest coffe place near me is star bucks and there still half an hour away.
Cooper seed sells large burlap bags for under $3 each......
Any old or new cheap blanket
POLY 100# FEED SACKS FROM A LOCAL CO-OP OR LIVESTOCK FEED STORE LAST MUCH LONGER THAN BURLAP.STUFF THEM W/ ANY TYPE OF PLASTIC AND DOUBLE THEM UP AND HANG THEM SO THEY SWING ON IMPACT.DO THIS AND YOU WILL HAVE A TARGET THAT LAST FOR YEARS.
QuoteOriginally posted by overbo:
POLY 100# FEED SACKS FROM A LOCAL CO-OP OR LIVESTOCK FEED STORE LAST MUCH LONGER THAN BURLAP.STUFF THEM W/ ANY TYPE OF PLASTIC AND DOUBLE THEM UP AND HANG THEM SO THEY SWING ON IMPACT.DO THIS AND YOU WILL HAVE A TARGET THAT LAST FOR YEARS.
that worked for awhile after about 2 good rains the plastic started to crumble at the touch.
All this talk about bags got me searching, and I found this.
40"x54" Woven Plastic Bags
http://www.gemplers.com/product/WP4054/40x54-Woven-Plastic-Bags#TAB-TECH
Smaller sizes available too, but the way I shoot its safer going with the bigger one.
Loose cotton if you live in the south. Stuff burlap or plastic feed bags with it. Great for field points, just keep it dry...........
James.............
Coffee shops I'm talking about are the ones that roast their own or sell green coffee beans. They usually have lots of old burlap coffee bags. I zip tie em shut and hang so they swing, they last a long time in SE Alaska weather.
$bowhunter$,
I've got poly feed sacks stuffed w/ black 6 mil plastic that are over 10 years old and have been outdoors from day one.Not sure what type of sack you are using?
Even Better then plastic:
Go to the Grocery store and as them to save the shrink wrap that comes on all their pallats (holds the boxes in place). It works fantastic!!
I use the lumber tarps from the yard. Usually 1 or 2 will fill it. After you get a weak spot "worn" into it, just pull out the tarp and stuff it back in.
Shrink wrap.
Hi All,
I kind of excited here. I usually just lurk a bit but now I have something useful to share.
I built a 5'x5' 2"x12" frame on wheels as a target the kids would have a hard time missing. Chicken wire holds in the stuffing and I faced it with burlap from Jo-Ann Fabrics. I used strips of tractor tire inner tubes (free from tire store) for the center part, about 2'x2'. You get a great stop and can pull with 2 fingers. Then I filled in the rest with mattress plastic wrap (also free from the mattress store,they always have a lot of heavy weight plastic available). It has works very well and is still going strong for 5 years now.
If all you need is stuffing I think finding a mattress store will fill you needs at no cost. :archer: