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I was asked to set up and remove the 3d targets for my local club since they are a little short handed, and I gladly accepted. I'm looking for some creative target set up ideas to keep the shooters coming back week to week and enjoying themselves on the course. We are somewhat limited on targets but more than one 3d animal per target is a possibility. I was thinking a bear with it's head in a "bait" barrel, or 2 bucks fighting, or a bedded doe in front of a buck target. I want to use more objects on the course other than brush and other animals. So what are some target set ups you really liked? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I tried to google 3d ideas or images but came up empty-handed so I figured I would ask here.
 
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A buck and a doe getting their groove on would be different. :D

Sorry, couldn't resist. I like shots that create a unique challenge or play games with your head. Shoot through an old tire to hit the target, shoot between two trees, or a bedded buck with tall grass obscuring the vitals.

Cascadian Bowmen usually have one set up where they placed a cougar up in a tree about to pounce on a hog (they have some hanging arrow stop material behind the cougar) and that one is my son's favorite.

Take the standing bear and put a hunter's cap on his head, wearing an old blaze orange vest and an empty beer can in his hand.

If you have a carp or other fish target, put one under the mouth of a bear and let people arrow the bear then the fish.

That's all I got.
 
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angles angles some of the best shoots are animals that are angled put a elks head behind a tree just exposing the vitals angle the body in.cougers in trees are always good glue it together and hang it so when the first shooter shots the couger starts to swing. remember they dont have to be far to be challenging just taking the legs off the elk causes some problems figuring out distances have fun :wink:
 
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just one idea, at a range that used to be here, the guy had a carp target. He put this target in a pond or swampy area he had rigged it on floating platform and anchored it with a couple big anchors tied a bungee cord to and a pull rope so when you shot youd just pull the fish in and pull your arrows. Also im kinda dig those far shots he had a bear at like 87 yards never hit the darn thing but it was fun. Maybe you could build shooting platforms etc??
 
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glad

Glad I found this thread, I'm setting our course next month and already see some great ideas i may try.

I saw this one at another club,

A raccoon coming out of a sideways garbage can. *(aluminum)
if anyone missed they would hit the can and everyone around the course would hear a loud noise. the can was pretty thin so the arrows didn't really get hurt.
 
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XForce Girl said:
Glad I found this thread, I'm setting our course next month and already see some great ideas i may try.

I saw this one at another club,

A raccoon coming out of a sideways garbage can. *(aluminum)
if anyone missed they would hit the can and everyone around the course would hear a loud noise. the can was pretty thin so the arrows didn't really get hurt.
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I like the raccoon idea. We have 55 gallon barrels on the course for trash cans. I could tip one over (empty of course) and put our raccoon coming out of it and just move the pegs for a change up.
 
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Just went to the Reinhart and Mckenzie website and got some ideas. We have 2 or 3 of those wolf/husky targets and everyone calls them dogs. I was thinking about getting a collar and leash to put on one.

I remember going to a shoot last year where all 30 targets were deer targets. I was close to hunting season (hunter tune-up). They figured the shooters would get bored because they had some fun setting them up. The feeding deer had a crushed adult beverage can under it's nose. The deer looking up with its tongue out was placed close to a tree and they had a "adult beverage funnel" in the tree. They were big anti high fence hunters, there was a deer with a fence around it just big enough for the deer to fit inside and there was a deer chained, and I mean chained, to a tree.
 
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Shot a 3D course last year and one of the interesting shots was having the bear scratching it's back on a tree,, you only had around 4 inches to shoot at 30 or so yards and you should have seen the bark hits on that tree,,, lol.
 
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we have a target that has the body of a wolf and the head and neck of a doe, the colors are identical and the way they fit together looks like it's supposed to be that way it messes alot of people up when they're trying to figure out where to shoot it.

LOL
 
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Vinyari said:
we have a target that has the body of a wolf and the head and neck of a doe, the colors are identical and the way they fit together looks like it's supposed to be that way it messes alot of people up when they're trying to figure out where to shoot it.

LOL
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I remember a shoot it was a elevated shot and they put the Mckensie non typical rack on the head of the Catalina goat, the body colors were the same and you couldn't see the vitals because of the brush. No one even knew it was a goat until they went to pull arrows and they were all in the ground or low 5's.
 
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Shinsou said:
Shoot targets from treestands or blinds.

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I like this idea. You could easily construct a partial blind using a tarp or even cardboard. Only needs one side facing the target and perhaps a roof of some sort. Make a window to shoot through and you've got a realistic hunting situation. Even better if you have a chair or stool people must sit on to shoot.

I think, for safety, you would want the blind only large enough to fit one person so that the rest of the party is able to watch the lane for problems or other shooters.

How hard would it be to make a standing bear look like Yogi Bear? I'd shoot that.
 
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A course I shot at had 5 " bonus stakes " on the course. They were always on different targets each week. Basically they would have the regular stake ( say, red ) at the normal place. But they would move the bonus stake ( orange ) off to one side and into some "stuff" to really narrow down the shooting lane. It's amazing what a couple of yards to the left or right can do to the shooting lane. They got pretty creative with these. The premise was, if you chose to take your shot from the bonus stake, you added 2 points to your score. So you had a chance to redeem yourself from a previous bad shot. But you could only shoot from one or the other stake.
One that really was a blast, was a woodchuck in front of a sand pile. The regular stake was at about 30yds, but the bonus moved you back to about 50yds. The idea was to really, really challenge these guys.
 
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Have 1 Bonus Target on each half of the course where the shooter has to shoot an arrow thru a 4" circle that is cut into a piece of steel. You place a bag target or old junk target behind the steel plate to catch the shots that make it thru. It gets really interesting sometimes when they are shooting out there at 30 plus yards. :eek: :D
 
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Split rail fence beween the shooting position and the target. I did that with a strutting turkey several years ago. Turkey was at 18 yards, fence was at 10. The fence forced everyone to kneel for a clear shot at the vitals. The real hunters loved it. The 3D technos hated it. But they all said it was a realistic shot.
 
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Thinking about making a feed bag or a salt lick.

Also thinking about getting a manikin, seeing a walking bear with his front paws on a "hunter" or a standing bear with the "hunter" sitting at the base of the tree in a panic position would be pretty funny.
 
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If you have the panther with the paw up, and a wolf, bear, or coyote you could stage a scrap betweeen them.


Put a standing deer behind two close trees so that only the vitals are exposed.
 
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