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Anyone making their own targets???
bubbles:
Epoxy and titebond brittle? Did your bow explode?
Olanigw (Pekane):
--- Quote from: bubbles on February 01, 2014, 11:21:56 am ---Epoxy and titebond brittle? Did your bow explode?
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Nope, the Effinglass was fine. I used titebond to haft one arrow and 15min epopxy for the other. Neither could handle the impact of hitting cedar shingle.
lostarrow:
With the targets,PatB and I use, the water doesn't stay in them to freeze, and there's no cardboard to get wet and fall apart. Just sayin ;)
bowtarist:
I use the feed sack targets too. Sometimes just stuffed with other feed sacks and sometimes with plastic grocery bags, both work great. I have one of those outdoor lay down lawn chair cusions that is a tri-panel that I folded in thirds and ties w/ baleing twine and it works good too. I have taken that spray foam and put it in milk jugs and 20 gal. garbage bags and it works pretty good too. I like the milk jug ones best. The foam keeps the arrow from running through and ripping off the fletching and it is a good small animal size. If I feel like it I use a sharpie or spray paint to paint "Bullseyes" on the targets, but sometimes not. Animals don't have spray painted circles on them. ;)...well one opposum I kept catching did after the third time I caught him, but that's a different story. Pappy has some field targets at Twin Oaks that look like they were made with some sort of foam that are huge, I've always wanted to ask about those, but seem to forget when I'm down there. The recycling center here has a place for those plastic grocery bags and I've gotten several feed sack full from there. Have a gooder, dpgratz
bowtarist:
I just looked at the website. Neat idea. How long does one of those last? Seems like the white foam would get destroyed pretty easy and start making a mess in the yard. I bought a $19.00 target made of white foam for my kids and that is what happened, it started to wear out and made a mess in the yard. Neat idea all the same for a field archery target. dp
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