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?
Tennis ball and a Judo
QuoteOriginally 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
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.
QuoteOriginally posted by Bisch:
QuoteOriginally 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!
X2 on the tennis ball.
I use ace blunts.
Good luck and God bless,
Rodd
In a past issue of TBM a guy named bruce g designed one to launch coke bottles. Works well
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
Glue a few pieces of cardboard from the bottom of frozen pizzas together.
QuoteOriginally 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...
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!!! (http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/sheepdogreno/Mobile%20Uploads/20150207_002228_resized_zps275eb796.jpg) (http://s76.photobucket.com/user/sheepdogreno/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150207_002228_resized_zps275eb796.jpg.html) (http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j30/sheepdogreno/Mobile%20Uploads/20150207_010129_resized_zpsc4ee4770.jpg) (http://s76.photobucket.com/user/sheepdogreno/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150207_010129_resized_zpsc4ee4770.jpg.html)
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.
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.
Pretty sure the foam needs some amount of air to puff up and cure right also.
CHuckC
I've have used milk jugs stuffed with plastic bags.. They work great. (without the stuffing they tear up your feathers) :archer2:
4 liter plastic milk jug stuffed with rags(weight) and foam. add a little string to handle for extra through distance.
work great.
Big NERF kickball wrapped in duct tape (so it stays together) I have had the same one for years and is great to kick and shoot the running rabbit shots.
Thanks for the ideas everyone! Ive been tinkering with target ideas and haven't made one of these small ones until last night
Here is one I built...
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=101913
I thought it would be a great idea to shoot an inflated basketball with a rubber blunt.
When the arrow zipped back past my head I decided it wasn't such a great idea afterall.
Nerf footballs are good toss and shoot targets.
With the foam in a can.
Squirt some in, not much, wait a day or so. Squirt more on top, wait a day or so.
Continue this process. You need the container to be at room temperature. It HAS to have air to set up. If you squirt it all in at once you will have a mess that will never get hard.
Well as luck would have it I do have an old rubber basketball... I picked up a can of spray foam tonight at the hardware store. I plan to fill it here and there over the next couple of days. I'll then figure out how to attach a rope for easy carry and paint on aiming points. FYI I'll shoot field points at a target like this
Started the basketball spray foam target project. As luck would have it in had a rubber basketball that my police k9 partner grabbed awhile back and instantly popped! Gotta love Belgian malinois! So I cut a hole in it, tied knots in small rope, and put it in. Then filled the ball about a third so the foam would take around the rope. I will finish filling once the first section sets.if it works the foam should set around the rope so I will have a handy tote rope!
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Empty milk jugs will sometimes jump and roll around when you shoot at them with a rubber blunt.
Next shot could be a few yards further than the first, so just stand in one spot and get a few varying distance shots.
Target doesn't last long, but collect and recycle when dented up and full of holes.
If the target gets moving and is filled with foam it could break arrows. I like the deflated ball idea
Tennis balls.
I use a liquid laundry detergent container (gallon size, I suppose), and jam it full of old Wal-mart grocery bags. I shoot field points and blunts at it, but not Judos.
Well the basketball project didn't fair well! I should a have just crammed it with Walmart bags.spray foam last night set up. Did a bit more today and as of now its just soupy and not setting up....the cat litter jug works great tho. Stuffed as many bags and old t-shirts as I could inside and my arrow won't even pass thru it. It does flip and flop on the ground which will eventually lead to bent aluminum shafts. Gonna keep eyes open for a 10x10 cardboard box that I can fill and wrap with tape.
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.
QuoteOriginally posted by 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.
This is what I did with a basketball and it didn't work like I figured. I sprayed a little at a time and the center never set up and the spray foam I got when it did set up was very soft. I'll check the barn for another old ball and try stuffing with grocery bags next time
QuoteOriginally posted by Roadkill:
In a past issue of TBM a guy named bruce g designed one to launch coke bottles. Works well
I happen to have this issue sitting open on my desk at home if anyone would like instructions on how to build the coke bottle launcher!
Darren,
Just go to your local club and retrieve a "shot out" kill zone from their trash. Hook a rope onto it to help you throw it farther. then just fling and shoot. When it is actually, really shot out, go get another from the trash and do it again. Another good thing to do with them, if you have the space, in paint them orange, spread them out a field or woods and have a "punkin" shoot.
QuoteOriginally posted by Dave Worden:
Darren,
Just go to your local club and retrieve a "shot out" kill zone from their trash. Hook a rope onto it to help you throw it farther. then just fling and shoot. When it is actually, really shot out, go get another from the trash and do it again. Another good thing to do with them, if you have the space, in paint them orange, spread them out a field or woods and have a "punkin" shoot.
Great idea thanks!