Plans/Patterns to Make Your Own Shooting Bags

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Does anyone know where one can get Plans/Patterns to Make Your Own Shooting Bags (Rifle rest bags)? A friend of mine is a good upholster/seamstress :p and I want a nice set made up. I know I could guess-t-mate on the style and design my own, however I figure that I wouldn't be the only hunter in America to ponder this. I was thinking about using some old denium jeans, lined with some heavy poly-plastic I have. I could also use an old leather coat at my disposal..... I just think that the tiny bags for $50-$75 are just ####ty and over-priced. Plus I would rather give that money to my friend. :idea:

Anyone out there talented or has a set of patterns??? Would make her job a lot easier! :p As always, any help is greatly appreciated.

15 days until deer season, my trigger finger is getting itchy! :lol:
 
sPuTnik said:
I was thinking about using some old denium jeans, lined with some heavy poly-plastic I have.
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Old jean legs is how I make mine.

I cut the jeans off at the knee, turn them inside-out, wire them shut at the cut-off end, turn right-side out, fill with sand, wire them shut, leaving the bottom part of the leg empty to use as a carrying handle. No plastic liner needed.

Mine have lasted 15yrs :shock:

SC...................
 
Same as above. I use the shotshell bags and jean legs(sewed at one end, filled with sand, sewed at other end). Quick, cheap and long lasting!

DF :mrgreen:
 
Come on. Show your Martha side. What's this wiring the bag shut? Get out the little woman's sewing machine and sew it shut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Martha is a criminal! we should not attempt to do things like criminals.
Wire em shut! :mrgreen: :lol: :lol:
 
White rice in its original 3lb bags, slipped into pockets made out of denim jeans. The rice stays inside the store bag, helps with moisture retention, denim protects the inner bag and it accessorizes with my shooting jacket. :wink:
 
skeetgunner said:
White rice in its original 3lb bags, slipped into pockets made out of denim jeans. The rice stays inside the store bag, helps with moisture retention, denim protects the inner bag and it accessorizes with my shooting jacket. :wink:
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And you've always got a 'handy meal' or side dish to go with your grouse or trout in a SHTF scenario. :wink: :lol:
 
When i ordered my windriver/leupold spotting scope it came with a neoprene bag/purse to keep it in. This bag/purse made an excellent shooting bag. Filled up a vacuum pack bag with dry sand, vacuum packed it and slid it in the purse. Viola. Shooting bag. :D
 
My R&D (research and development) department came up with a simple solution for shooting bags:

Fill plastic garbage bags with the desired amounts of sand, and then tightly cover the whole plastic bag with one or two layers of duct tape. Voila, and you have a very nice shooting bag :D

It is also very easy to make a couple of smaller plastic bags filled with sand to attach with duct tape onto the top of the larger sand bag and thus create a "V" and better rest for your gun. Make a larger one for the forend of the gun, and a smaller one for resting the stock.

These two very fine sandbags for your gun will cost you less that $ 2.- to make 8)

Have fun !
 
To make shooting bags, I use jean legs or sleeves off of leather coats from the thrift store. They get filled with corn cob media which is lighter than sand. All of mine have a small leather loop that is used as a carrying strap.
 
I had my wife sew me up a few 'shooting bags'. I just gave her the dimensions I wanted. She used plain canvas, put a velcro closure on one seam. They are lined with small plastic beads you get in bulk at the hobby store. [like Michael's]. Put the plastic beads into plastic zip-loc bags inside the canvas bags.

Old jean legs would've worked just as well as the canvas, though. The plastic beads don't hold moisture like sand & are a fraction of the weight, too.
 
I used the leftover bags I get the 20 pounds of lead shot in to reload some shotshells. Once they were empty, filled em up with dry sand, and then I did the MANLY thing of NOT sewing it shut but to put a Tie-Wrap on the end. :lol: Cost = nothing.
 
Hey Deerdr..........doing some back reading or what...........this thread is 10 years old..........

I have been meaning to build myself a couple of bags.......I have a couple tanned elk hides and I prefer sand as I have tried other stuff and the stability of sand (or #8 shot) has always worked the best for me. Had two made from jean legs, but #1 son left them in the back of his pickup until the cotton broke down in the sun and let go..........Of course he never replaced them as promised.........he did the same with my favorite 25 lb bag of #8 shot, this was the best bag I have ever shot from but just a tad too small.
 
I made up a bunch and left them at the local range. Innertubes I got from local tire shop, cut, turn inside out, cable tie the end. Right side out and fill with sand. Stuff a plastic bag in neck over sand and cable lock the top. They have outlasted the jeans and leather sleeve bags I made. The first bags went missing, (for weight in truck in winter?).. My shot bags were old and did not last that long. Lots of different people using them and some are not careful. I bring my own stand and smaller bags when I go to the range, still use the large tube bags for rear.
 
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