ChiefHeadhunter

Here is what I did for my newest target. I gave the shop a little business and bought a replacement cover for 9 bucks that fits their premium bag targets that cost like 40 or 50 bucks. It's the really large bag made by magic stop, it's got 5 spots on one side and the vital organs on the other side. It has a nylon loop on each corner and heavy duty Velcro holding one end shut.
I gathered the shrink wrap at work from receiving and the warehouse and rolled it all up and stuffed it in. Were I made the mistake was overstuffing the thing like a maniac which wasn't at all necessary. I ended up taking about 1/3 of it back out and loosening the stuffing because arrows were only penetrating about 2 to 4 inches at most.
I use a set of target stakes that came with a blueridge 3-d body section broadhead target from walmart to stand it up and it's the best bag target I've had yet. Lightweight, won't waterlog, cheap and highly effective. Field points only of course.
Leave that rag bag out in the rain once tell me and how ya like it. Rags are heavy to begin with.

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Cougar Mag

Good idea. I bought a large target with a similiar cover several yrs. ago filled with cotton. Now all I need is to buy the replacement bag cover, I don't think it will ever wear out. I can still pull arrows out with 2 fingers, even carbons.

rpdbry

I'm the president of a 4 year old archery club in Oregon. We started with little money and could'nt afford nice targets. We went to the local grange co-op and got burlap wool sacks. They are about 4 ft by 8 ft. The co-op sews the top shut and we cut them in half. Stuffed them with shrink wrap or any other plastic we could find, firm but not to tight. We then sew the top shut with 20 lb fishing line. We built stands with a small roof over the top to keep the rain off and the bags are lasting about 6 months in the sight in area and about 1.5 to 2 years on the range. All for $6.50 per wool sack or $3.25 a bag. Our goal was to be able to buy better targets latter but these work way better than we thought so were sticking with them.

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Lilhunter

thats exactly what I shoot at in my house

a hundred arras? stop shooting at one spot lol! I have shot at mine for almost a year now with only having to flip it over. I try to shoot a few arras a day, more so now then when I first got it but its still living good! I do have another one behind it though just in case. The wifey doesnt like holes in the wall if ya know where I am coming from <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>!

jevan

I have been using feed sacks from corn and stuffing them with old blue jeans, and pieces of carpet, attaching grommets (plastic snap on) to corners and taking screw hooks and bungee cords hanging from two trees and blasting away . I can pull my carbons out with two fingers and some just fall out by themself

evan

Doogster

I have made targets with the feed sacks and shrink wrap as well. Its a good very cheap way to make a target. There is a guy on ebay that always sells tarfet bags for around 6-7 bucks. I have bought a couple and like them real well. They have five circles on one side and tic tac toe on the other.

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akbowhunter

ive been using shrink wrap for years, since i am a warehouse manager i can get all i want. what i do is to get a cardbord box and stuff it full tape it shut. onece it starts getting too many holes i just get another one doesent cost a penny. ive even got one box used for a back stop its about 4ft x 5ft the ones that aircompressors come in works great.