Target Frame Backing

[Jon_Snow]

My club uses tar paper. Lasts about a month getting battered by the public before it gets torn out and replaced.

 

[barron1958]

3/4" black insulation board. comes in 4'x8' sheets at Home Depot for about $9. You can easily staple targets to it and it holds up very well

 

[NapalmMan67]

+1 on getting the election signs after the chaos is over. Our club get a lot of excess ones from some of the candidates, so we have lots on hand.


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[Fred in Wisc]

My club just went to using the orange plastic safety fence. The floppy kind with holes punched in it. It lasts a LOT longer than the OSB backers they had been putting up. You just need some small spring clamps to hold your targets up to it.

Like this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-4-ft-x-100-ft-Orange-Barrier-Fence-998044/100384030#.Ufldnuoo6Uk

They put up a top and bottom 2x4 stretch it lightly between them and staple it. Sorry don't have a pic.

 

[Bill4282]

You may want to get the ok from the candidate(s). Removing election signs without permission is a federal offense. Some of our local parties keep the frames for the next election cycle.

 

[joepmo]

http://www.homedepot.com/p/48-in-x-...oard-10-Pack-WC4896-10/202489118#.UfmKiBG9KK0

Coroplast

 

[BruceB]

Just get two lengths of 5/8" rebar about five or six feet long.

Drive them maybe a foot into the ground, perhaps four feet apart....spacing is your option.

Fold a large piece of cardboard (from a furniture-store trash bin) over the posts and duct-tape the cardboard together, front to back.

To drive the posts, either get a T-post driver, about $15, or buy a 3' length of 1.5" threaded iron pipe and screw on a pipe cap... use this as a driver.

Windproof, solid, collapsible, and REALLY CHEAP! Takes almost zero storage space, and almost zero labor to erect.

We've been using this method in the "Nevada zephyrs" for years with great satisfaction.

 

[Dr T]

+1 on the black insulation board.

 

[osprey176]

I use mud flaps from tractor traillers.They are tough,and last a long time.You can buy them from truck stops,or check at any shop that services big trucks.I use drywall screws to attach them to 2x4 frames,and staple targets to them.

 

[Rembrandt]

Our club hangs up "Cow Mats"......3/4" thick rubber mats used in livestock industry.

 

[herrwalther]

I use political campaign road signs. Pretty durable and a good way to reuse them. Politicians have a use after all.

 

[jamesjames]

conveyor belting is the ticket

I just shot at a range last week that used a 48-inch wide black rubber conveyor belting, about 1/8 or 3/32 thickness. Everyone stapled their targets to the rubber belting. This stuff lasts for years before they switch it out.

This was at a rural Minnesota, outdoor range. I assumed the conveyor belting was part of grain-handling equipment. It could have been from a combine or perhaps food-processing conveyor belting.

After seeing swinging steel targets hung by rubber belting on TV shows like Tac TV, I am a big fan of rubber belting. It makes the reactive targets more lively and it seems to hold up better to direct hits than steel chain, barstock, or wire.

 

[Magnuumpwr]

Glad I stopped to read this thread. Am really liking the conveyor belt setup. Where I work, there is about 2 or 3 miles of it that they are giving away. Problem is it's in large rolls and about 4 1/2' wide and about a 1/2" thick. Guess I could get them to load a roll on my lowboy.

 

[tarosean]

Our club hangs up "Cow Mats"......3/4" thick rubber mats used in livestock industry.

thats a great idea... Stall mats run about 40-60 bucks for a 4'x6' sheet.... I can certainly see them outlasting anything else mentioned here... weight is an issue if your stand is drug around.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

thats a great idea... Stall mats run about 40-60 bucks for a 4'x6' sheet.... I can certainly see them outlasting anything else mentioned here... weight is an issue if your stand is drug around.

TSC often has them on sale.

They also make good arrow stoppers ,hung behind 3D targets, for archery too...

 

[Delford]

+1 bwana& herrwalter. That is what I did during the primary a year ago. Every now and then I hit the frame with the .45 acp and it's time for a new one. I doubt that I'all run out before the next election The candidates are glad they don't have to remove.

 

[itsa pain]

You may want to get the ok from the candidate(s). Removing election signs without permission is a federal offense. Some of our local parties keep the frames for the next election cycle.

almost everything is a federal offense. I never heard of that one there are dozens around here I don't think you need permission.

 

[itsa pain]

at my range I used plywood until they forced us to use useless cardboard soaks up water even when humid. if you can believe it they said guys were getting hurt from plywood chips. what babies. when I was young thought shooters were rugged individualists man was I wrong