Best place to buy? Or good place for instructions on how to build good portable ones. Easiest ones I have seen thus far involves using old tires as the stands.
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I've always seen them just put 2x4's on the bottom with an angle bracket. Our club has PVC pipe in the ground spaced the right distance for the target frames. Just drop them into the PVC pipe.
azroadrunner
08-16-2004, 22:26
What I use is a homemade PVC stand. -- Three actually, as I like to practice engaging multiple targets. Anyway, it's cheap, light, easy to transport, easy to make, and fast to assemble and disassemble...
What this system consists of, basically, is eight two-foot sections of 1" PVC with connectors to hold it together, and two metal stakes to set it on and hold it up... It's perfect for hanging up a TQ-15 or similar man-sized target, but can be used for virtually anything.
This simple target stand can be made with two four-foot sections of PVC and four two-foot sections of PVC. -- I use all two-foot sections because it's makes everything smaller once broken down and only adds a minute or so to the setup/take-down.
Picture two two-foot sections of PVC as the lower legs. They have a "T" connector on top of them. This allows the connection of another two-foot (vertical) PVC per leg, and another one horizontally. This is the bottom of the target stand and goes over the two metal stakes you place into the ground.
On top of that you place either four two-foot sections of PVC or two four-foot sections of PVC. This is the vertical section of the target and in the center of this is where you will "hang" your chosen target. (More on this procedure in a moment...) If you are like me and go with
the four two-foot vertical sections of PVC you will need two butt connectors to join the vertical sections together, and then they go on top of the "T" connector of the base section.
On top of the vertical center section is the other two-foot horizontal piece of PVC. This is the top of the target stand and fits to the center pieces via two elbow connectors. -- At this point I am <b>really</b> wishing I had a picture to show this to you, as it would be <b>much easier</b> than it is to describe it in text! :-) -- A picture really <u>is</u> worth a thousand words...
Okay, now you have a completed target stand. (If I typed everything correctly and assuming you were able to make sense of it!) Just remember the pieces of PVC just snap together -- there isn't any need to glue anything together as that defeats the portability of this stand.
As for attaching a target, simply stretch some two-inch tape horizontally in three or four places in the center section of the target stand, with the sticky side of the tape facing where you are going to shoot from. For a full-size target, such as a TQ-15, stretch your tape across the top, the bottom, and one (or two) pieces in the middle. Now walk up and gently press the top of the target onto the highest piece of tape, which should be about two inches or so below the top horizontal piece of PVC. Then slowly unroll the rest of the target down to the next strap of tape and gently press the target onto it. Repeat until you're at the bottom piece of tape. -- Then you're all set! It's <b>very</b> fast and <b>very</b> easy. It takes less time to do this then it does to read about it, trust me...
Anyway, using this method, you can easily (and cheaply) set up multiple targets quickly. They are light and fast to set up and to take down. Plus if you are doing some advanced tactical shooting and happen to slip up and take out a section of your target stand it is fast and inexpensive to replace. And the whole target stand fits into a gym bag!
BTW: If you wish to use a smaller target than a TQ-15 this is still easy to accomplish with this setup, as you can do pretty much whatever inside of that four-foot tall by two-foot wide shooting zone. -- As for a simple paper "bullsye", I routinely use an old sheet of paper: I just take a two-inch roll of tape and a large black felt-tipped marker and make a quick circle using the inside of the roll of tape. This makes a perfect two-inch circle, every time! Then fill in the circle using the marker. Again, fast and cheap.
Hope this makes sense and helps someone out!
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