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About LinkBacksLooking for ideas for buying/making sand bags. I'll be using them for sighting in the optics and iron sights on my rifles, pistols and shotgun.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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Looking for ideas for buying/making sand bags. I'll be using them for sighting in the optics and iron sights on my rifles, pistols and shotgun.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Don't believe what you hear and only half of what you see!
-Tony Soprano
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Beans will be lighter than sand IMO, and just as effective if you don't wish to buy a commercial set of bench rest bags.
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If you know anybody that reloads shotgun, the 25lb shot bags work quite well.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
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Cut off the legs of wornout (or out grown) blue jeans and get sandbox sand from a home store (Lowes, Home Depot) for bags you aren't going to have to haul around. For light weight bags beans (as mentioned) but I have also used packing peanuts (stuff tight and sew with little free space) and tightly rolled bubble pack.
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Pea stone in the pant legs works well. My local concrete supplier will sell it to you for about $.50 a five gallon bucket if you scoop yourself.
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We now feel qualified to do, absolutely anything, with literally nothing
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Tie a plastic bucket from a tree.
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I use the legs of old jeans with zip ties on each end, like a sausage. Make different sizes. I use good clean sand from the sand pile in town.
I use cloth coin bags.
“No possible rapidity of fire can atone for habitual carelessness of aim with the first shot.”
Theodore Roosevelt, The Wilderness Hunter, 1893
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Great suggestions, keep em coming.
Don't believe what you hear and only half of what you see!
-Tony Soprano
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I filled mine with cheap ol cat litter....it "packs" like sand, but is lighter
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I use a 40-lb. cementbag bought from Home Depot as my combat fitness workout equipment for doing squats, bridge presses, curls, etc. I simply wrap and tape two trashbags around it and then wrap it inside a burlap bag I bought from a surplus store called "Little GI Joes" at Military Highway in Norfolk or Mercury Blvd. in Hampton.
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