Best material to fill a shooting bag with?

22magtech

I bought my self a set of shooting bags off ebay and now im in the dilemma of what to fill them with ?

Any of you lads have any experience of what to use or what not to use?

tomcat220t

Hi 22magtech, I use black fine casting sand and seems to work well .
Regards,Tomcat.

Vegeta

tomcat220t wrote: »

Hi 22magtech, I use black fine casting sand and seems to work well .
Regards,Tomcat.

Is that stuff easy to get Tomcat, would B&Q stock it or are we talking specialist places only?

tomcat220t

Vegeta wrote: »

Is that stuff easy to get Tomcat, would B&Q stock it or are we talking specialist places only?

Hi Vegeta,i picked it up years ago from a foundry .
I used it to make molds for casting aluminium to copy architectural once off parts .
Would not think it hard sourced or expensive !
Regards,Tomcat.

clivej

Don't use the play sand as it's to fine and will leak out of the seams.

Next is not to put to much thinking into this. Builders sand is what I use and it does the job.
People also use rice but I didn't like the idea of it smelling if it got wet.

FlushBang2013

maybe weird put i use sugar in my shooting bag

leica

i bet it looks pretty sweet too

Cass

clivej wrote: »

People also use rice but I didn't like the idea of it smelling if it got wet.

Avoid rice at all costs.

It never settles, will not give proper stability and as said if it gets wet then it's a nightmare. Stick with sand for ease.

mac20v

Blasting grit is nice and heavy makes the bag very stable.

FlushBang2013

leica wrote: »

i bet it looks pretty sweet too

O i see what you did there, haha it is weird but it works for me