I have plenty of room to shoot.  I just need to get a new target for longer range shooting (I don't think you need to necessarily ask WHY I need a new one for longr range, either....lol).

Big bag target?  My only experience with a bag target was a bad one when I left it in the rain, once.  I'm not adverse to building a small shelter for it, but would like to know what all you guys are using.

If you have a shelter/roof over yours....let me know your suggested dimensions.  I'm in the midst of remodeling a man-cave in the basement and my ceiling is going to be tin roofing.  I should have enough left over to use for a target shelter roof.

Thanks for your help.

Jeff, I use burlap bag stuffed with plastic bags and bubble wrap! Works PERFECT and cost me nothing! Its been out for over a year and stops my arrows with ease! Sound pretty cool when my arrow SMACKS it! I move it around the back yard to keep my chops up! A lot of guys use old feed bags as well!

I have targets I've made from feed sacks stuffed with plastic bags and they have no problem stopping arrows.

How large can you find these sacks?

Any poiners on where to pick up some excess plastics?

Unless someone talks me out of it....I've got a desire to do some long range shooting.  I'm gonna need a pretty good sized target, at first!

Morrell Yellowjacket. Been hangin out in the elements for 2 yrs. Its my only target, takes a beatin'.

Eric

Westbrook:

I was shooting a compound, then, but I went through one of their BH targets in less than 1 season.

Ar eyou talking about the yellow jacket bag target?  If so...that's the one I said was ruined after it got wet.  Is yours covered?

Thanks.

GMMAT, yea the bag target. I let it hang out in the rain, snow or what ever. I did put a new cover on it last fall, I shoot a lot, 100+ arrows a day is typical(when its warmer than it is now).

I got one of the BH targets but use it sparingly, not much a BH wont slice up!

Eric

There is a good thread one the second page about making targets out of burlap coffee bags. check it out

I just built me a 4"x4' butt.It is filled with rags and plasic.It is nice to have a big butt for tuneing and long range stuff.Great for mounting a 300 target face on too.I use some pieces of foam for broadheads.
 

4 ft? I hope your using that for you close range shooting James. LOL nice looking target. I bought 3 of those big block targets from Don Moore. great price. put one in the garage(14yds) and one under my bag shelter(up to 60ys). the 3rd moved to Greenville and has a nice enclosed target house to live in now. You comming to the deer classic? I guess sometimes it is nice to have a big butt. Don

Yeah I tried to find the guy that makes those like you had so I did not have to build one.No luck so I had to work.

I might go out there this Friday with Bud.I don't usually go but he wants to and I need a few things if I run across them.

I've had one like James' for 12 years. Never changed a thing on it. It still holds ever arrow perfectly straight as it hits the target. There has been thousands of shafts in this one and still going strong.

 

 

Hey KentuckyTJ, can you give us a little more information about the construction of your target there?   Thanks!

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Hey KentuckyTJ, can you give us a little more information about the construction of your target there?   Thanks!

X2.... Whats it stuffed with??

You know guys I'm not positive what the actual stuffing is as I have never had it apart. It seems to be some kind of cloth material like rags stuffed very tightly. The front three layer materials are some kind of poly material thats stapled to the 2x4's and 2x6's. That backing is a very heavy cloth. I wish I had more info but do to my materials ignorance that's the best I can give you.

There is no stuffing in between the two front layers. These two sheet actually are what keep the arrows perfectly aligned as they enter the target.  This is key in not shooting up your arrows as you can when they lay in a target in different directions.

This deal is very heavy and I have put casters on it which lets me roll it around easily. The folks that made these have been out of business for quit a few years now so I have no one to call to get info from anymore.

Hope that helps.

Round bale. . .

A plastic soft drink bottle (shooting blunts). Cheap, and easy to carry.

Yup I shoot soda cans and wood arrows with 38caseing as a blunt...

I have several U stuff it targets.  I fill em with plastic the local furniture store is happy to give away.

Costs me about ten bucks for two, three years of shooting.

I shoot at empty milk jugs and other plastic bottles from our recycling can. once they get shot up, they go back in the recycling.