HITTING THE BULLSEYE - CHEAP FUN AND CREATIVE RECYCLING - THE 30,000th POST FROM @PAPA-PEPPER

Simply put, I'd rather not buy things that I can get for free and even expensive things eventually get destroyed.

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Whenever I have the opportunity to find a practical use for someone else's junk, I love to take advantage of it. Often times all you need to do is keep your eyes open and plenty of situations like this will present themselves to you.

I've shown some pretty creative uses for things in the past, and here are a few of those links:

• A FREE BIKE RACK
• FUN WITH SHOPPING CARTS
• HOW TO TURN A SHOPPING CART INTO A RABBIT CAGE

Whatever you may find, there certainly may be a use for it if you are only willing to consider your options. Recently I was able to do just that once again!

SHOULD WE JUST TORCH IT?

A neighbor have some trees cut down not that long ago. The trunks were used for lumber, but the branches and some thick cross sections of the trunk were left in a big pile. Often, this is what people do with leftover tree parts before they have a bonfire to burn it all.

When I looked at the pile, I couldn't help but notice the big, flat, cross sections of the trunk. Hmmm... I though, I've seen things like this before. Soon, I had a conversation with my neighbor.

I GOT A BETTER IDEA FOR SOME OF THAT!

It wasn't too long before I had a few choice pieces loaded up on my trailer. Now I just had to test them out.

By simply stacking them on top one another, I had created exactly what I was looking for. This was just a temporary setup to make sure that they would function properly. Before I set them up in a permanent position, I'll need to find a functioning back-stop to put behind them.

Since I had recently came across a pretty good deal on throwing knives, I thought that I could make a satisfactory target out of these scrap pieces of wood. Time to test it out!

Throwing knives is an artform and can take a lot of practice to perfect it. The speed of the rotation of the knife and the distance that you are from the target are two key factors.

Once you are a proper distance from the target and can throw with a certain consistency, the success of knife throwing increases.

Until you figure some of that out, though, the ground in front of your target may just look like this.

While there may not exactly be all that many practical uses for throwing knives , it can still be a fun and rewarding hobby. Even more, it is great to get a free target without having to work much to create it or go out and purchase something.

Does anyone else out there enjoying throwing knives? If so, what kind of targets do you enjoy using? Have you ever made one like this before?

As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:

proof-of-throwing-knives-and-a-free-target

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Until next time…

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