Little Help here- Shooting Bag question ????'s

Pruson

Pruson

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I am looking for a new shooting bag(larger type). I have sewed up that Old Caldwell Tackdriver bag of mine so many times, it's pathetic. What is a good material for filling a new bag that won't eventually start cutting the threads in the seams. I've tried rice and sand both, looking for something better.
 
Sonny I have always used spent primers,they work great! I have a couple of bags now that I put oil dry in and they work really good also.....Either one of these work really good and they are not heavy....Chad
 
Sonny, I too went the rice and sand route, but it just wasn't what I was looking for.

A few years back I bought some camo bags at a gun show, that were filled with a fiberglass or plastic type pellet. They work great. Liking it so well, I then began a search for some of those pellets and found them on the Internet. They aren't cheap, but I bought enough to fill a Caldwell bag, large type that is self supporting.

I'm sure there are cheaper substitutes out there that will work well, but that is what I use.

If you find something cheap that works good, be sure to let us all know.
 
Go to a pet super store, they have lots of options fairly reasonable. Walnut shells, kitty litter, reptile sand, etc.
 
Sonny,
The Caldwell bags come filled with walnut media. Same stuff as polishing media. It's a whole lot cheaper to go to Petsmart and buy Kaytee walnut shell bird litter in the 25# bags. I use that in my tumbler too. Don't get the corncob and expect to use it in the tumbler....it's waaay too coarse!

The trouble with walnut is that if you forget, and get your bag rained on, the media swells so much it can pop the seams on your bag! Don't ask how I know this
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BOY! I am getting smarter by the post. Thanks to all. Gene, I have been using the corncob stuff in my tumbler. My problem with that is in the little 17 Ackley Hornet brass it gets hung up in the primers and inside the casing. You gotta sit and tap them upside down to get it out.

Reptile sand huh?

Thanks guys
 
youe know them travel pillows you can buy that goes around your neck,, thats what i use just tie the ends together and works great
 
Originally Posted By: SamSpadeGo to a pet super store, they have lots of options fairly reasonable. Walnut shells, kitty litter, reptile sand, etc.

Thats what put me on to the oil dry was kitty litter...All it is little grainy looking rocks that does the same purpose when used correctly by normal people
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Go to www.dog-gone-good.com and work with the owner Don Scott. Great guy who sells very good bags. He uses several types of media to fill his depending if they are to be shipped filled or not. I have several of his bags that have ground up plastic from Pepsi syrup barrels and they work fine. Have a real sweet odor when new, but goes away after awhile.

Nelson
 
Another solution that turned out not being so cheap for me, but... You may want to try these plastic pellets on ebay. I looked for them in large quantity for a few weeks before ordering from ebay, and ebay was the best price I could find.

The pellets in the link above are round, and are apparently used often for dolls that look like a real baby. When stuffed with the pellets, the arms and legs of the doll feel somewhat real. Because the pellets (I'd call them beads) are round, they don't grab each other, but slide past each other, feeling almost like the bag is filled with gel (but a bit more firm). Plastic won't absorb moisture, which might be a good thing for something exposed to extreme temperature changes, or stored in your trunk. I filled a shooting bag with these a few months ago and they work very well, giving just the right level of weight vs squishy to the bag.

One tip:
If you want plastic pellets, you may check at a factory that manufactures injection molded plastic products. The plastic they use comes to them in raw form the same as these plastic pellets. Sometimes they may not be as round as these used for stuffing dolls, but some are. You never know, a company that goes through tons of the stuff every day may just let you take 20 pounds of it for free. We don't have any plastics companies near me so I just ordered those off ebay.
 
Sonny, all my bags are Dog-gone-good, made by Don Scott. I got all of them prefilled from Don, with the plastic regrind pellets. Very pleased with the bags and the filler. They don't weigh too much and don't soak up water. I like the way the bags with the plastic filler he uses can be formed around the forearm and will stay how you put them too.

Give Don a call. He's one of the really, truly GOOD guys around. You'll enjoy talking to him and I bet he'll give you as good a deal as he can on some bag filler. Heck, you might even consider just getting a new bag already filled from him - they are really nice! I have at least one of every size and style he makes and use the heck out of them. The very first one I got from him has been thrown in the back of pickup trucks and dragged around in the granite and lava rocks on my high country 'chuck hunts for years now and hasn't even popped a thread.

- DAA
 
Originally Posted By: PaleRiderI usually use airsoft pellets.

Palerider: I did the same thing with the new Protektor rear bag I bought. I was looking for something lighter than the heavy sand from Sinclair. Worked out really well but I'd hate to have to buy enough for the bigger one-bag set ups like my Bull Bag.
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