Homemade shooting Bags

[Oldbloke]

Wheat in a ziplock plastic bag, tape it up & then in the sock. Mice cant smell it.

[bigfellascott]

rice for me as well,,but i have had to patch one,,stupid mice

Sounds similar to my experience with a fishing bag with pelletised burley in it, bloody rats and mice ate the crap out of that bag trying to get the burley

[Wobble]

Wheat in a ziplock plastic bag, tape it up & then in the sock. Mice cant smell it.

Or trail mix. Then you can eat it at the range

[Wobble]

Better to use the granite sand, mice don't eat that.

Must be heavy as F

[bigfellascott]

Better to use the granite sand, mice don't eat that.

Must be heavy as F

Which is sorta what you want really, I'd say my bags way around 4-5kg roughly, the kids don't seem to have trouble carrying em I leave mine sitting on the bonnet when out spotlighting, they tend to say right where I left them which is great and if I really was worried about them shifting around I could always stitch some magnets into them but honestly haven't had a need for it over 10yrs of using em so can't see that changing. Simple/cost effective and quick to make - right up my alley

Jean Legs make great sandbags too, stitch along 2 sides and ya in business and they are very durable too (I think I have 3 or 4 of those floating around the place too, along with calico ones, they all get used when the kids and wife get to playing on the spinners and gongs etc.

[brett1868]

I'm going to shoot in a comp next week and the rules say bags are to be filled with sand, mine currently have old tumbler media in them. Where can I find granite sand? I just checked Bunnings and all they have is regular sand. Was thinking I can always fill them with red sand as there'll be plenty of that down there. Half tempted to go buy a pair of $10 jeans from Vinnies to get the legs and make a few bags in different sizes.

[bigfellascott]

I'm going to shoot in a comp next week and the rules say bags are to be filled with sand, mine currently have old tumbler media in them. Where can I find granite sand? I just checked Bunnings and all they have is regular sand. Was thinking I can always fill them with red sand as there'll be plenty of that down there. Half tempted to go buy a pair of $10 jeans from Vinnies to get the legs and make a few bags in different sizes.

I bought a few bags of coarse pebble sand I think it was called - anyway got it from Masters. How would they know what you have in ya bags mate?

[brett1868]

Thanks Bigfella, I'll head up to Masters tomorrow and grab a bag. I managed to blow a hole in my large Caldwell bag so I'll get the missus to make up a few from jean legs.

[bigfellascott]

Thanks Bigfella, I'll head up to Masters tomorrow and grab a bag. I managed to blow a hole in my large Caldwell bag so I'll get the missus to make up a few from jean legs.

Not a prob Brett, I got this out in their Gardening Section - the jean legs work will I've found and a good repurpose for something that would otherwise end up in the bin.