My homemade moose target

[damascusdave]

If you do a search of Sheepshooter you will see the moose Randy shot last fall and the year before...he lives very close to the area you will be hunting...as you will see from his posts you need to be ready to make at least a 30 metre shot which is not all that difficult since as you know a moose has a big kill zone...just make sure to stay well back from the leg bone and scapula...the compound guys kill moose here all the time with their whitetail rigs

DDave

[Mudd]

[Hopewell Tom]

Wait until you see one in real life. Man, those legs are long, or tall when he/she is standing there. Getting one in stik bow close will be a real rush.
You'll have fun for sure. Good luck.

[dnovo]

I'm going on this hunt with Darren. He got me thinking about a target and I whipped this one together shortly after he did his. Difference is, I barely have time to shoot at it much less post pictures. Anyway got around to a couple pictures tonite.
So here is my homemade  moose target. I'm in construction so I decided to use up some scrap laying around. I used a couple pieces of 1 1/2" pink styrofoam and sandwiched some other foam I had around between them glued with spray foam. Couple 2x4's for legs and an old piece of rubber from a backyard pond.
Here it is.  7' tall to the hump and almost 9' long. It's pretty easy to miss when you back up a ways.




I left some brush on front to add some realism.

[macbow]

Looking good Darren and Dan.
I bet Brian has some antlers to hang on these targets so you won't get target panic as bad.

Dan looks like the target building experience paid off from the old Gateway Bowhunters days.

[maineac]

Looks great!  I am working on hitting my white tail target in the vitals at 30 yards consistently.  I figure if I can do that I should be able to hit a moose's vitals.  Good luck!!

[eidsvolling]

I was drawn at the end of June for a 2016 NH moose permit, and I had the good fortune earlier to obtain Darren's plans for a moose target. I kept my existing stall pad as a backdrop and made a target face from rigid foam and burlap, painted in early caveman style to resemble a moose.

It's getting a good workout these days. Picking a spot on that dark form is significantly more difficult than on most target faces!

Fifty-eight days and counting!

 

[Possum Head]

Good thread yall got me fired up and I aint never seen a moose. Post plenty of pics when yall return and best wishes.

[Gun]

I missed this post last year. I'd aim a little further back than Dan's group above.

Also be aware the hump on a Moose can be deceiving. Aim for the lower third!

[TIM B]

Nice targets guys.  Another idea that's easier if ya have access to round bales is get a big piece of burlap and get your measurements and using spray paint create the animal ya want.  I made one of an elk that worked great.  I had a pic somewhere.....

[Biathlonman]

Many years ago I made an elk target out of a sheet of plywood, burlap, and some scrap lumber.  Be advised though my wife was not impressed when she came home from work and it was in the yard.

[eidsvolling]

Originally posted by Gun:
I missed this post last year. I'd aim a little further back than Dan's group above.

Also be aware the hump on a Moose can be deceiving. Aim for the lower third!

The principal reason I like Darren's plan so much is the care he took in making an accurate representation of the vitals.

I chose to use it as an outline, highlighted only slightly in the same color as my paint scheme. It's really not visible until you're next to the target, so the setup forces you to locate that spot you're talking about. Screw up the shot and it's very obvious once you walk up to the target.      

I have broadside shots back to 20 yards and a nifty quartering away shot back to 25, with the opportunity for threading shots through woody vegetation of various diameters and heights. Short of throwing blunts at live moose (NOT advocating that!), I'm hard-pressed to see how to improve on Darren's target plan as I get ready for this hunt. (I do a lot of roving as well, BTW.)

[Captain*Kirk]

Nice, Darren! That's using the old noodle!

[DXH]

Cool idea ! Nice job making it a realization

[Birdbow]

Before my Maine hunt I made a partial full size target out of heavy cardboard backed in the kill zone with thick closed cell foam. Served me well and was able to pass it on to a friend for his moose hunt prep.