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Postby Dutch Dog » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:47 pm

I'm needing to make some sandbags for bench shooting. What in the world would be good to make em out of??? I'm looking for something durable, with a tight enough weave to not allow the sand to escape. I really don't want to leave a trail of sand everywhere I take the sandbags. I've seen old shot-bags used, but where do you find them? I don't need to buy 30# of shot to get the .50 bag it comes in. Any ideas????
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Postby MSDawg870 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:50 pm

I've seen them made out of old blue jeans with no holes of course. Cut the legs off how ever long you want the bags and then tie up each end.
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Postby LawDawg » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:50 pm

if there is a plant nursery or somewhere that sells dirt close to where you are, they usually sell sand and bag their own sand. you can offer to pay for the bags, and they will usually give you them for free. hope that helps.
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Postby JoHo » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:57 pm

MSDawg870 wrote:I've seen them made out of old blue jeans with no holes of course. Cut the legs off how ever long you want the bags and then tie up each end.


Blue jeans work perfectly!
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Postby AMOS » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:45 am

I made some yesterday out of an old pair of carharts. I manage a concrete plant so the sand wasn't a problem to get but, it works perfect. I weighted down the lead sled with it.
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Postby Hayes » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:22 am

go to your local bank and ask them for the coin bags. They work great and usually they have some they will give you just be nice to tellar.
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Postby Squealer » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:12 am

croaker sacks
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Postby Coach » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:32 am

Yes like Hayes said... coin sacks from a bank,.. I got two of them.... I got on about full adn shoot off of it... The other one is smaller Iput it on my vice .... works great
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Postby Dutch Dog » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:42 am

thanks guys
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Postby ms_deer_hunter » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:04 pm

caldwell shooting supply makes a bag called "the tack driver " i have acouple thay are grat all you need is one , it is like 50 bucks
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Postby cwink » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:34 am

Our camp made some out of old Tracker Tire innner tubes..
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