I looking for ideas for thrown targets that are cheap/free to make. Right now I'm thinking glued layers of card board. Video for attention.



https://rumble.com/vd7u8z-youth-archery-trick-shot.html

Belonged to an archery group years back.  We shot outdoors at the city range every week.  I made up 4 dozen flu-flu arrows and my friend made up a dozen targets.  Just as you mentioned, he glued 10 inch circles of cardboard, 4 layers.  They lasted a long time.   

Yep what BAK said - cardboard glued works great
Tim B

What's the best/cheapest way to get them up in the air?

Some brave soul hiding behind a round hay bail works well.

Nothing brave about it, we just took turns and stood off to the side, never had a problem, of course we didn't have any lawyers in the group either..

Two liter soda bottle could fill it with spray foam.  Tie to fishing line. Give it a cast for wing shooting then shoot at it while its being reeled in for rabbit practice.

We always just take round gallon ice cream lids and flip them up in the air.  Seems to work great.  They stop the arrow just fine.

I just use cheap foam soccer balls. Drop kick them and shoot. Really forces you to concentrate and shoot quick after kicking the ball and getting set to shoot.

We used to shoot a foam target, 2 guys shooting 1 guy throwing, never had an issue as we were shooting up with flu flus. As things progressed we ended up shooting at a used up chew can taped up with electrical tape.


Jason

You can use 12" round pizza card boards. Glue 3 or 4 together. an old frizzbie can work well too. If you throw them up in the air under handed, they tend to stay more vertical. And, mine used to last a long time...cause I hardly ever hit it !

Been toying with the idea of adding a piece of pvc pipe to the throwing arm of a clay pigeon thrower and launching half gallon milk jugs. Work in progress type of thing. 

Years ago, I hosted an aerial shoot at a big tournament every year. I took unclaimed aluminum arrows out of the lost arrow bucket and fletched them up with spiral flu-flu feathers which stopped the arrows much quicker than 6 fletch. I tried wood at first but they didn't hold up to the abuse.

We had volunteers throw store bought foam targets, people loved it and would shoot as long as someone would throw the targets, sometimes for hours.

We modified a clay piegon thrower with a larger rack  and used styrofoam discs about the size of a frizbee.  Works well.

Glued up cardboard has the heft to be able to toss them a pretty good distance. Cheap.

As a kid I shot milk jugs w rocks inside for weight. I'd prob use a little sand now. It's free and works

Quote from: bowmaster12 on January 25, 2021, 12:32:09 PM
Two liter soda bottle could fill it with spray foam.  Tie to fishing line. Give it a cast for wing shooting then shoot at it while its being reeled in for rabbit practice.

That's a good idea

The guys liked the swinging Copenhagen can here. Crappie rod or a cane pole with fishing line, fill the can with dirt and tape it to the fishing line, then adjust it so it swings across the 4'by 6' target. When they got good at that, it was clay pigeons with the hand throwers, out at the big dirt pile at the shooting range.  I never got into it myself, but when they would set up the angled back stop, a sheet thick plywood,  about 6 feet from the target stack, it was coins tossed across. The deflection plywood was always set up, but it never once got hit. Lots coins went flying. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMMrSC1mBOY&feature=youtu.be

Go to your local Goodwill, Salvation Army, or other thrift store and buy a used foam yoga roller thing-a-ma-bobber.  I sliced one like a stick of pepperoni into about 10-15 aerial targets.  I built a thrower, using wood, rubber tubing, PVC, and some kind of delayed-action trigger mechanism I dreamed up.  It worked pretty well.

Hey Archie how bout a picture of your thrower please