Hello, I'm starting to think of how to create a cheap, sturdy, target with replacement components. I have some ideas already but I would like to see\hear from some of the veterans- tips, tricks, builds. Cheers all.

If a target is a wooden square board with a round plate held at the appropriate height from the ground by a stand then a target is what I'm looking for. When I think back stop, I think something behind the target to retrieve stones that dont hit. are we thinking the same thing?

Definitely want it portable. What do you mean by full balearic? Is that on reference to target dimensions? I would love to see your poly pipe target.

https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1523898343/0
There you go.

When using plumbing pipe you have to be careful you buy the right stuff.
What you want is polypropylene pipe and joints.
It's basically unbelievably tough and virtually indestructible.
So even though it's lightweight you can use stones, clay etc and not worry about breaking anything.

You do NOT want abs, they'll break very easily.
Likewise PVC pipe is also fairly brittle.
Polypropylene is your only friend

If you can't get the camo netting I used, then rubble netting is cheap and tough and comes in huge sheets that can be used in multiple layers.

I can do a complete breakdown of parts used and send the STL filed to print it get printed the angled brackets.

Curious Aardvark wrote on Jul 30^th, 2021 at 6:57am:



Yes please, send it to me I would love that!

Damn, you mean I actually have to reverse engineer it lol

Hokay, I'll do a pdf.
To be fair the only tricky bit is working out what joint pieces I used.

I did do a 3d model to work out what I needed, I'll dig that out.

It's not the cheapest target around, but it is pretty cool