Bag Targets
07-21-2006, 01:25 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Land of Rocks, Ozarks of Mo.
Posts: 3,048
RE: Bag Targets
I haven't tried them, it maybe cheaper to make yer own. Get lots of plastic bags and old clothing put into burlap sack and pack'em in it good. Close top wid a cheap nylon fish stringer, so you can reopen and pack again. Lots of work in this heat!
07-21-2006, 02:58 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 6,585
RE: Bag Targets
I will be making some I have some old 50 pound flour sacks and am looking for different things to stuff them with but if I am going to end up with at least 14 targets like I want i will be buying 5 or 6.
I am making 5 by 5 foot faces in the side of a hill for backstops[ sandyloam] the longest target so far will be about 45yd.
Any suggestions or comments? Lee
I am making 5 by 5 foot faces in the side of a hill for backstops[ sandyloam] the longest target so far will be about 45yd.
Any suggestions or comments? Lee
07-21-2006, 05:04 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,896
RE: Bag Targets
Lee are they smiley faces? LOL!!
Any type of fabric will work. Many of the targets use fiberglass netting, the same material as window screening. Any type of long fibers work, clothing, screening, blankets, sleeping bags. I think the outside material should be a coarse weave like feed bags. Don't forget the targets have to be small enough to tip over and stomped on to stop pass throughs. Try going to a place that may have fabric waste like seamstresses or fabric mills. How about feed mills or dairy farms for their feed bags?
Any type of fabric will work. Many of the targets use fiberglass netting, the same material as window screening. Any type of long fibers work, clothing, screening, blankets, sleeping bags. I think the outside material should be a coarse weave like feed bags. Don't forget the targets have to be small enough to tip over and stomped on to stop pass throughs. Try going to a place that may have fabric waste like seamstresses or fabric mills. How about feed mills or dairy farms for their feed bags?
07-22-2006, 05:34 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 1,653
RE: Bag Targets
I get good mileage out of the cheap bags. Just can't shoot the same spot all the time. When they do wear out I put one in front of the other and buy some more time. Gotta say I am not thrilled with the 4x4 block. when you pull a broadhead out a chunk of target face comes out with it. Good thing it has four sides. >>>>>>>>>>>Wha ck!
