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bow101:
sometimes if you hang out at construction projects you will see scraps of Styrofoam been thrown out.

H Rhodes:
I know my solution won't work for you fellows that don't have a lot of room, but I put a round bale of hay on a pallet and put a piece of tin on top of it and have been shooting the same bale for more than two years.  Takes up space and hard to move if you don't have a tractor, but you will have a target that will last you a long time that doesn't cost much.  I shoot almost every day and this bale is still going strong.

Slackbunny:
Just yesterday I made a little target out of a plastic bag that I stuffed full of wood shavings from my current bow in progress, and then wrapped in duct tape.

crooketarrow:
  I've did a coupe times.
  Folded it up a old wool blaket sewed the sides up stuffed with plactice ans sewed the top shut. Practice tips go between the woven wool. Last a surprizing long time.
  Better to get a judio and walk around unknown yardages alot better than shooting across the yards. REALLY DEVELOPES THE HAND EYE,BRAIN TO SHOOT UNKNOW DISTANCES.

bowtarist:
I've got all sorts of targets around my place.  Some bought, but some like PatB said.  We used to raise chickens, so I would take the feed sacks and roll them up and stuff them into another feed sack, then tape the top, when the front was shot out, I'd stuff the whole thing down into another feed sack.  You can also go to the recycling center and get the plastic grocerybags and do the same thing.  There is a nature preserve on a lake near my house, in the spring I go to the West side of the perserve and look for dock floats that have been blown there from the past winters storms.  I've found two that are really sweet and work great for shooting @.  I also have an old lawn chair recliner pad, from one of the long wooden lawn chairs that I folded in thirds and painted three circles on, it works great for stopping arrows and I like to use it for the long shots, I take it to my neighbors field and set it up at like 50 to 100 yards and shoot three at a time @ it.  What's the big deal if your arrows don't stick?  Less work pulling in my opinion.  I also shoot a lot of blunts and judos at random stuff, flat soccer balls, basketballs, make sure they arn't holding much air, tennis balls, milk jugs full of foam insulation.  I don't like cardboard so much because if you shoot through it, it will tear offf your fletching, milk jugs w/o insulation and beer cans will all do the same.  Good luck and have fun, sounds to me like your jean target is a good start, though. dpgratz

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