Filling Shooting Rest Bags w/Sand

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I bought two Protektor bags from Midway. I should've paid the extra $$$ for pre-filled ones. The neck on these is so skinny that I am finding it impossible to fill with playground sand from Home Depot. Has anyone else had this problem, and how did you fix it? Thanks.
 
Thanks. I have a small funnel, but I think the neck is not long enough. It doesn't reach into the open part of the bag. That is probably a big part of the problem.
 
try something different than sand - like buckwheat, old 209 primers, any type of dry beans - all are lighter, won't hold moisture, and will give you a steady rest
 
Beans are a good idea if they're small enough. I used rice when I filled mine ~20 years ago. I've heard that rice keeps indefinitely; it would be interesting to cook it up and see how true that is!

Maybe you could put something in the neck to keep it open.
 
lunker, 5/15/10

Hard to fill shooting bags? Been there, done that. I made some long necked tubes and was able to insert them deep enough to pour in my Home Depot sand. One tube was a plastic syringe with the far end sawed off. Worked pretty good. Another was a aluminum body-tube for a pneumatic speer gun which I sawed off- also worked well. If you look around your garage you can probably find something that will work. It would be simpler though if the manufacturer made the fill-tube a bit bigger.

best wishes- oldandslow
 
We had saved up all the old "chilled shot" bags from all the shotsehll loading we did in the past. Mom is a sewer extrordinairre, and we filled a whole batch of those bags with soybeans. Not nearly so heavy and cumbersome as sand filled. Our old wives tail on storage of beans was if there was wheat or any other small grain within 20 miles, bugs/weevils would get it before soys. I was always of he opinion rice was a small grain and very susceptible to weevil infestation.

Just my two pesos
 
Stick a straw into the bag and the funnel into the straw.

Mix some baby powder or foot powder into the sand, it will flow much better.

John
 
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