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Tomorrow begins FREE TARGET STAND DAY in most communities. ;)


Your community probably allows the wire-framed campaign signs to be displayed on roadway right-of-ways, which is public property. Now some communities actually use tax dollars and county employees to collect the signs to be returned to the candidates, so if this is what is done in your community, disregard, as Free Target Stand Day doesn’t apply where you live. :(

Some communities, however, require the signs to be removed in 24 hours, After the polls close, OR the signs are abandoned, and in some places they don’t even require the 24-hour wait, the signs are free game to anybody After the polls close. ...just remember along the roadway, not up in somebody's yard.....

Some of those signs have pretty robust wire frames…… ;)

AND those wire frames make excellent supports for cardboard upon which to place targets. They are great when folks are training to hit targets not at the conventional distances of 50 yards, 100 yards, 150 yards, Etc. OR for black powder folks looking to place different targets at odd distances, close in, or for woods walks or novelty shoots, OR if you have land to target shoot on and don't want permanent stands....

The wire frames work well for hanging steel too. Now not alone, but I can hang my 8” x 3/8” AR 500 plate off of chains, when I tape three of the robust wire frames together. They hang well, they swing so don’t splatter a lot back toward me or others, AND they ring really well. We're talking wire frames that are Π shaped not Н shaped.

So, as long as the local regs are obeyed, Help Yourself late Tuesday Night or Wednesday morning (or in my case Wednesday night as the candidates have 24 hours after 22:00 tonight to get their signs picked up)... to some Free Target Stands….., and do the trash collectors a favor at the same time! :cool:

Might was well have something “good” come your way from the elections, eh? :D

LD
 
I agree. Have been using them for years.

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My wife is on our town council. She just got re-elected in April and then will term out. We used some of the leftovers from her first campaign for the latest. The next will be a mayoral run if she goes for it so the old ones won't apply.

I cannot tell you the hemming and hawing I do looking at the remainder taking up space in my garage. I believe she's said she has no gumption about them being "recycled" but....there is just a special level of hell for that kind of bad juju, methinks.
 
I have a small collection of campaign signs. I have several that are used as target stands. I also have cut up several for use as heavy wire for various projects. Real handy for hanging bird feeders or making shop fixtures. Today will be a good day to collect them.
 
Work for the highway department for 36 years(will at least show up for work), out here illegal to put campaigns signs on the right of way. We would pick them up and keep for 30 days and if not claim would put them in the trash. Always had lots of target stands. The best ones would from real estate office's.
 
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