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Has anyone ever tried making their own targets?

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dmassphoto:
What do you guys use as targets?  Currently, I've got a few bales of hay, with some carpeting attached to the back so they don't go through and hit my house.  While looking around, I saw those nice rounded wicker-looking targets, but they're $200-300!  :o  Just wondering if any of you ever made your own, and how you did it, along with what materials used?

uwe:
I`ve made them first by photocopying 2-D - Animals (black and white as coloured copies). Then glue it to carton(correct???). Made it thick enough, about 10- 15mm. Its resisting more shots. Then I`ve discovered a new material at work. Machineparts in big wooden boxes are often packed with flexible foamboards. These are about 4" X 1" thick and 1 yard for you, (for me around 1m long). I glue them 1 board to the next board, so I`ll get a plate of 1m X 0,5m/0,6/0,7m or what you need. These are horizontal, On its back I glue another layer, but this time vertical to get more strength. You can make one layer more, if you have enough material, but it depends on the length of the sawblade in the next step. Then I take one of my copies, glue them to the plate and cut it out with an electrical jigsaw. I get a silhouette of a little bear, deer, beaver, bird....
Next is rasping some structure into the animal for making it 3-D- like.
Must make next some pics for you, accus are low.
Regards Uwe

El Destructo:
Nylon Grain Sack...fill it with Polyester Pillow Fill...you can buy it by the big. Bag at Wal Mart

Kegan:
Newspaper! Two or three stacks of newspapers alternating up and down so it stacks flat and square tied off with old bow strings. Pretty easy and works well enough :)

Forgot to mention that you shoot them between the papers, like those stacked foam targets.

Timo:
I have the local farmers here keep their hay bale net wrap for me. Stuff it in a plastic sack. I keep one in the shop at all times.  Getting ready to make a 2x10 frame, with chicken wire on  the outsides and stuff it full, anything to hold it. works great.

They had a big thread about this over on another site.

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