Homemade Targets ... ?

[Archie]

I'll start:


So... just for kicks... I made myself a moose. 

Started out with some very thick foam sheets that I got from my buddy's roofing company. 

I googled and found a picture online that I thought I could work with.  Copied and pasted it into Microsoft Publisher.  I created a page size about 7 feet wide, then enlarged the photo to fit.  I printed it, selecting "Print to Tiles".  In this case, it printed on 72 sheets of paper, and had to fit them together like a puzzle.  (Knowing this, I added a page number to the bottom of each page, to make it easy to assemble.)  My daughter and I put it together and taped the pages.  I put it over the foam, stapled it down, and cut it out so that my foam cutout was more moose-shaped than I could do freehand.  I saved a regular 8.5 x 11" copy of the picture in case I wanted to use it as a guide for painting it later.   In the end, it turned out quite a bit different than my original cutout.... but oh well.  One more note... when printing in tiles just to create a template for cutting out, I make a bunch of white shapes in the print document to cut down on wasted printer ink. 

I cut out the foam with an electric hot-foam knife that I have.  Then I took sheets of ethafoam that I have been collecting, and built out the kill zone on each side.  Then I wrapped it with pallet wrap (Saran Wrap type-stuff) to hold it all together.  Then took a bunch of sheets and random old fabric, cut it in strips, dipped it in Titebond ultimate glue (slightly diluted with water) and made a paper-mâché type covering (fabric mâché) over the whole thing.  The moose antlers were donated from someone's old kill, that he had laying out in his yard.

Built a stand, painted it, and now I'm the envy of the town.  Ha ha!

[Possum Head]

Nice work! That's guaranteed to turn some heads. Looks like it will stop some arras as well. Have fun.

[Traditional-Archer]

I'll start:
Well done sr, great idea. Targets prices are off the charts.


So... just for kicks... I made myself a moose. 

Started out with some very thick foam sheets that I got from my buddy's roofing company. 

I googled and found a picture online that I thought I could work with.  Copied and pasted it into Microsoft Publisher.  I created a page size about 7 feet wide, then enlarged the photo to fit.  I printed it, selecting "Print to Tiles".  In this case, it printed on 72 sheets of paper, and had to fit them together like a puzzle.  (Knowing this, I added a page number to the bottom of each page, to make it easy to assemble.)  My daughter and I put it together and taped the pages.  I put it over the foam, stapled it down, and cut it out so that my foam cutout was more moose-shaped than I could do freehand.  I saved a regular 8.5 x 11" copy of the picture in case I wanted to use it as a guide for painting it later.  In the end, it turned out quite a bit different than my original cutout.... but oh well.  One more note... when printing in tiles just to create a template for cutting out, I make a bunch of white shapes in the print document to cut down on wasted printer ink. 

I cut out the foam with an electric hot-foam knife that I have.  Then I took sheets of ethafoam that I have been collecting, and built out the kill zone on each side.  Then I wrapped it with pallet wrap (Saran Wrap type-stuff) to hold it all together.  Then took a bunch of sheets and random old fabric, cut it in strips, dipped it in Titebond ultimate glue (slightly diluted with water) and made a paper-mâché type covering (fabric mâché) over the whole thing.  The moose antlers were donated from someone's old kill, that he had laying out in his yard.

Built a stand, painted it, and now I'm the envy of the town.  Ha ha!

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Freaking awesome !!!!    

[Tim Finley]

That's a great target I like the moose at the 3d shoots the best . The prairie States Bowmen have a shoot every year and most of the targets are home made . One year someone brought a clown I shot it in the head and the head turned out to be a disguised bowling ball !!!

[Terry Green]