Whats in your bag?

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...your shooting bag that is.

There was a posting in the precision rifle forum by this name about sandbags, but this title got me thinking.

On the LFCA rifle team Captain C. always made us compile of list of things to pack in our shooting bag, and to have one bag that we could carry all our necessary stuff and quickly set up on the firing point with minimum time.

So what do you consider necesary for Service Rifle nowdays, and how do you pack it?

Heres my current inventory of necessities:

Rifle
Hat
Backpack/napsack (whichever one isn't currently in need of repair) containing:
spotting scope with fixed 20x eyepiece
Spotting scope tripod
Electronic earmuffs
2 spare aaa batteries for above
2 sets foam earplugs (to share with people who forgot)
2 sets shooting clases (smoke and yellow)
Rainjacket
Sunscreen (expired)
Bug spray
Ammo.
open-ended 1l milk bags and elastics to shield optics in rain.
Shooting book containing:
- 2 bulldog clamps to hold pages down in wind.
- match cards
- moldy shooting record cards (either the matches have gotten faster, or I've become too slow to fill these things out anymore)
- laminated Elcan scope reference card
- pen, pencil, grease pencil
- popsicle stick marked to tell how many rounds in mag
- Mini calculator
- individually packaged diabetic Alchohol wipes I use to clean scope lenses.

To reduce setup and mobility problems, I don't mess around with carrying the lawnchairs, groundsheets, scope cases, rifle cases or shooting mats on the range. I don't want to hold everyone up or have to hire a Sherpa just to move between mounds.

So what do you carry with you?
 
This is what's in my pack:

Ammo
Spare mags
Ear protector (electronic)
Sunscreen
Bugjuice
Water bottle w/water
Rain gear
Wind/elevation charts for the various ranges
Multi-tool
FAC/ATT/registration & ORA/DCRA membership cards

In my rifle case:

Firearm w/sling (hello!!)
Open bolt indicator

For SR I usually don't bother with a range book, spotting scope and shooting mat. These though I'll bring for the precision/sniper matches.
 
Here it goes:

Range Bag (CF Issued NBCD Bag):
- Medium Size Green Towel
- Ear Plugs
- CommTac Hearing Defenders
- Medium and Large Zip Lock Bags
- Assorted Pens/Pencils
- White-Out Pen
- 2 sets of range cards for Matches 1-12
- Spotting Scope and Stand
- Extra Batteries
- Sun Glasses
- Raingear
- Medium Size Map Case
- CFSAC/NSCC Rulebook
- Elcan Scope Cover
- Water
- Snack Food

In my shooting jacket:
- 2 magazine dipping devices (popsicle)
- Round Template card (to determine keyholes)
- Wind Card in .308/5.56
 
Lotsa spare ear plugs,
Spare harris bipod
Insect repellant
sunscreen
targets
stapler
pen
marker
chrony & tripod
bore snakes
 
Lemme see:

5 magazines (front pouch of '64 ruck, Canadian Peacekeeper Cordura CADPAT bag)
whistle (to run the snap matches at CQB)
spare foam earplugs ('cause everyone seems to forget theirs)
spare set of AAA batteries (Peltor Sound Traps)
Granola bars, peanuts (I'm a diabetic typeII)
2 spare pens, pad of H2O proof paper
Sunscreen (Issued and expired)
Tall cylinder of bug spray (to start any fires LOL)
OH Shzt Kit- Spare AR: extractor, extractor pin, bolt cam pin, firing pin, yada yada, M14 bolt innards for the M1A lovers, Hex key kit
USGI cleaning rod kit & USGI nylon cleaning kit from local gun show Toronto
Steel washer on a shoestring- for the ELCAN shooters who need a coin (windage)
Goretex ECWCS desert pants and Jacket if need be
Burris spotting scope 12x24x50mm and tripod
Service & Sniper log book - spare pens, markers, thermometer, range cards
Mesh nylon bag for brass empties
H2O bottles - canteen carrier MOLLE'ed on side of ruck
Toque for Sep/Oct or April / May weather
Peltor Sound Trap hearing defenders
Spare breech flag
Spare rubber mattress (rubber #####) plug, just because they told me so in Battle School 1977
Stolen from the Army Cadet Camp dumpster - Mildewed nylon poncho - STINKY :)
Old Service Rifle course(s) of fire in ziploc (to settle any arguments)
Folding tripod stool lashed on '64 ruck frame (I'm getting old, 'nuff said)

Cheers,
Barney
 
Standard list, based on things I've forgotten.

Rifle
Bolt
Ammunition
Magazines (5 minimum)
Log Book
Pen, Pencil
Spotting Scope
Wind Chart
Ear Muffs
Small Cleaning kit (rod included, plus some bits)
Rain Gear
Ear plugs (in ear foamies)
Keys (trigger lock and range keys)
Knife (Swiss Army)
Wallet (PAL, match fees, beer money)
Water
Snack/lunch
Hand towel (dry rifle off in the rain, cover during HOT sun)
Kleenex 10-pack (cleaning optics in the rain)
Sun Screen


That's most of it, there's some stuff that'll get added depending on where/what I'm shooting, but that's pretty universal for me.

NS
 
New things to add to my ruck learned from soldiers asking me for help at Connaught May 2007 match:

* 1" diam washer, tied to 550 cord and lashed to left wrist (adjust ELCAN windage)
* more foam earplugs
* more ball point pens found in the hallways of my high school where I teach
* more peanuts or beef jerky since I am diabetic and the mess hall was an hour away, and we had one more relay to shoot through.
* Spare AA batteries since my COMTAC's don't need the AAA sets my Peltor Sound Traps took. :evil:

Cheers,
Barney
 
Hungry said:
...Spare rubber mattress (rubber #####) plug, just because they told me so in Battle School 1977...
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What's that for? In case they give away free women w/o plugs?:p

Hungry here: Back in Wainwright Battle School, they issued us the inflatable, heavy, but tall rubber air mattress. Often the rubber plugs would get lost during the packing and unpacking process. So we were told to keep a spare handy. 30 years later, I've still got a spare. Force of habit, I guess. :evil:
 
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Connaught 93 ,we had to line up for butt pack inspection before heading out on the range,we had a NBC bag with all our goodies,guess some people kept forgetting thier bolt or spotting scope
 
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