Target Stands Without Repercussions

[Swifty Morgan]

I've seen a couple of posts about "free" target stands, i.e. election signs. Personally, I would not feel at ease jumping out of a car, running onto someone else's property (or the adjoining right-of-way) and grabbing a sign that does not belong to me. Not to save the cost of breakfast for two at McDonald's.

My target stand is a sign frame a realtor refused to pick up after I moved to my new house. It's heavy steel. It will last forever. You can cut cardboard to fit it, or you can simply run packaging tape across it and stick targets to the tape. You don't need a base for it, because the legs are made to be pushed into the ground. What's not to love?

Similar signs can be had at hardware stores for well under $20. They come in different sizes.

Just a thought.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-Sign-Center-18-in-x-24-in-Frame-Sign/3058799

 

[Hokie_PhD]

If I’m not mistaken in Va it’s a specific crime in addition to theft.

I just make cheap ones out of 1x2s and scrap 2x4s

 

[dodo bird]

I've seen a couple of posts about "free" target stands, i.e. election signs. Personally, I would not dream of jumping out of a car, running onto someone else's property (or the adjoining right-of-way) and ripping off a sign that clearly does not belong to me. Not to save the cost of breakfast for two at McDonald's.

My target stand is a sign frame a realtor refused to pick up after I moved to my new house. It's heavy steel. It will last forever. You can cut cardboard to fit it, or you can simply run packaging tape across it and stick targets to the tape. You don't need a base for it, because the legs are made to be pushed into the ground. What's not to love?

Similar signs can be had at hardware stores for well under $20. They come in different sizes.

Just a thought.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-Sign-Center-18-in-x-24-in-Frame-Sign/3058799

I don’t have a dog in this fight. I believe what people are talking about is signs not in people’s homes or private property. The ones that are on public property that are left there for long periods of time. We can argue about the time until you take them. They are eye pollution to me and I’m ready to see them gone now.

 

[Swifty Morgan]

For $16, you can have a better stand with no worries.

 

[Waveski]

Personally, I would not feel at ease jumping out of a car, running onto someone else's property (or the adjoining right-of-way) and grabbing a sign that does not belong to me. Not to save the cost of breakfast for two at McDonald's.

Grabbing a neglected political sign and throwing it in the back of the truck is kind of fun. Breakfast at McDonald's is not.

 

[frankmako]

Now is the time to get all the free target backs you need free. Just go to the business that prints the political signs and if they have any left over they will give them to you. At the club we get truck loads free from the local sign shop after each election. The sign company can not reuse the sign and it cost them to send to the trash dump.

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

I use the ones the OP mentioned from Lowe's, stumbled upon them about a year ago.

They will get shot up eventually but do hold up pretty well. I'm still on my first one.

 

[loose noose]

Hmmm, Good Ol' Boy, now that is a great idea for a couple of my steel plates, I'll have to go by Lowes this afternoon.

 

[gwpercle]

The Realtor " House For Sale" are better for targets . Stand higher and they can last for years if you don't hit the cross frame too many times. I replace the for sale part , where I tape my targets , with the corrugated plastic part of the discarded political yard sign....if picked up they usually wind up in a trash bin.
Political headquarters for people running will give them to you after an election....by law they are supposed to go out and collect the ones they have put out all over town...they no longer want them ...just ask .
Gary

 

[DDDWho]

I've seen a couple of posts about "free" target stands, i.e. election signs. Personally, I would not feel at ease jumping out of a car, running onto someone else's property (or the adjoining right-of-way) and grabbing a sign that does not belong to me. Not to save the cost of breakfast for two at McDonald's.

My target stand is a sign frame a realtor refused to pick up after I moved to my new house. It's heavy steel. It will last forever. You can cut cardboard to fit it, or you can simply run packaging tape across it and stick targets to the tape. You don't need a base for it, because the legs are made to be pushed into the ground. What's not to love?

Similar signs can be had at hardware stores for well under $20. They come in different sizes.

Just a thought.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-Sign-Center-18-in-x-24-in-Frame-Sign/3058799

I do the same as you. When I bought the lot next door the seller said "throw the sign away" - that aint gonna happen. It too is heavy steel with a place to push it into the ground with your foot.

 

[P5 Guy]

My neighborhood group will be doing a right-of-way clean up for snipe signs this weekend.
It is against city code to post signs there, now on your property it's fine so we will not be snatching them up for range duties.

 

[John Joseph]

Our Sheriff donated her old election signs to the range for target backers. The signs are turned around to the blank side of course!

 

[Engineer1911]

Polls close at 7:00 PM, I was harvesting signs at 7:05 PM, now a backer supply that will last for several years.

 

[loose noose]

I did check the for sale signs out at Home Depot and Lowes but decided my heavy old base along with a 2"X2" wood frame would have to suffice. I take my grandkids out shooting pretty often and I'm afraid I'd be replacing the metal signs all too often. Thanks any way for the post.