From: woodsman
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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I know someone has thought of this before I did so any suggestions are appreciated. I bought a 6' x 8' tarp at war- mart for $2.88 thinking why couldn't this make a bag target. I considered sewing it but for the initial test decided on a bag of 4" zip ties.. I folded the tarp from 8' to 4'.. then from 6' to 3' and cut it. So now I have two bags.. I used the folded area as the bottom of my bag. One side is already folded and sewn I used zip-ties, about a dozen, to fasten them together. The other side I folded and fastend together.. The height is 4'... I will fold this down to about the sam height as my old bag. That way the material from the old bag will fill the new one that I made.. I've got about $2 dollars in it rather than the $20 dollars I had in the purchased one. I know it won't be as durable but it's cheap and I could double it to make it tougher.
Chris
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From: 1/2miledrag
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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Good idea. I have an old stuff-it-yourself bag target that started spilling its guts. I shoved the whole thing into a heavy duty contractors garbage bag, folded the top, and duct taped it shut. It's doing just fine. When the time comes I will shove that whole thing into a new bag. Repeat as necessary!
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From: 2 bears
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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Interested to see how it holds up. I bought burlap from Cloth World to make larger targets than feed sacks. It seems to be looser woven than feed sacks and not holding up as well. I take a strip of the burlap, spray contact cement on it,wrap it around the middle of the bag then put a few stitches in the ends. Easy repair but I wish it lasted longer.>>>----> Ken
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From: Redheadtwo
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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A fifty pound dog food bag stuffed with other dog food bags and worn out pieces of clothing works well.
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From: GLF
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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I used to go to the feed mill and buy 100lb feed sacks made of plastic burlap for 1 dollar to use. Once I filled it,usually with old clothes or wadded up plastic, I'd take it back to the feed mill and ask them to see up the opening. Most mill's will do that free.
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From: cobra
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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I did the same type of thing some years ago. It looked fresh and new but did not hold up well at all. Mine remained outdoors and shooting/sun/rain caused it to fray and fall apart.
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From: woodsman
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Date: 12-Dec-17 |
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I gave it pretty good working over this afternoon. It appears to be a little thin as I kinda expected it to be. But I got less than a couple bucks in it.. I'll go ahead and shoot it this winter. When it wears out I'll double bag the next one and still have less than $4.00 in it..
Scott you're absolutely right about the weather being hard on them. I keep them off the ground and cover them with a tarp, but that still may not be good enough... time will tell.
Chris
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From: ny yankee
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Date: 13-Dec-17 |
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I had a plastic feed bag stuffed with used plastic shrink wrap. Worked great but the hard part was closing the mouth. Roll it over and put zip ties through it. Kinda takes 3 hands to do.
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From: woodsman
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Date: 13-Dec-17 |
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I tried burlap bags and they worked pretty good. The tarp idea was something I thought I would try. It's going to be a long winter and I plan on trying very hard to improve my shooting, so what ever I use is going to take a beating.
I use the bags from the bird seed bags I buy for my "Redneck Entertainment center". The best solution I've found for closing the mouth is put another sack over it. That way none of the stuffing can get out. I use the sacks a lot on my walk around range. I lay them down on the ground or prop them up with sticks (legs) and they're very similar to shooting at an animal.
Chris
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From: dean
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Date: 13-Dec-17 |
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if you know any seed dealers, the large shipping woven plastic crates, stuffed with used silage plastic are four foot cubes and last a very long time. Total cost, zero.
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From: woodsman
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Date: 13-Dec-17 |
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Wow Dean.. Never thought of that!! I'll do some checking on those..
Yep, forget the thin tarp it's not even close to being tough enough.. Gonna try some other idea's. For now... a stuffed seed bag is way tougher... and the price is right.
chris
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From: zwickey2bl
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Date: 13-Dec-17 |
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I used to haul seed rice when I lived in Arkansas back in the 90s - always meant to get me one of those super bags that the seed rice came in and stuff it with plastic sheeting and such. Would make a 4' or slightly bigger cube target. It was really heavy woven poly stuff, like the cheap tarps but a lot heavier. They reused them many times.
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From: Nalajr
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Date: 14-Dec-17 |
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I'd really like to have one of those 4' seed sacks.
Anyone have a line on them for cheap?
There's a feed store about 2 miles from me that I have bought burlap sacks from that are pretty sturdy, but I don't know that they have these sacks.
Larry
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From: lawdy
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Date: 14-Dec-17 |
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I use feed bags stuffed with those plastic bags that all the stores use instead of paper bags. Most of my practice is stumping off season.
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From: dgb
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Date: 14-Dec-17 |
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Griffith bags out of Virginia sells cheap, large burlap bags. www.griffithbag.com/
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From: Wapiti - - M. S.
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Date: 14-Dec-17 |
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I've used burlap bag before stuffed with crushed gallon & half gallon milk or water jugs. Then I stuffed heavy plastic on top of the jugs.I tied the top corner to a tree in the back yard & the other top corner I tied it of similar to what you would support a tent with.You can tie off the bottom also, I forgot to say the side that is opened for stuffing.Can be stitched with heavy fishing line or fireline. I also use plumbing parts bags that are similar to what feed or seed bags are made of.
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