Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Cheap place to buy some beanbags for target practice ,?

I seen a few on ebay brand new, but I wouldn't mind getting them used?

Just bought these. Went to Walmart and bought a $3 bag of kitty litter. They work great.

https://www.amazon.com/Caldwell-Dea...71044713&s=sporting-goods&sr=1-1

Got the plastic beads to fill my bench rest bags at Jo-ann's Fabric Store.

If you can take old socks and fill with kitty litter (only no scent kind), uncooked rice, small plastic beads or sand. I’ve seen old pant legs being used as well.

Real cheapies DIY....

I have a fancy, expensive benchrest, but lately have been using a homemade bag, which seems to work very well. I took the nylon shoulder bag that a folding chair came in filled it with rubber mulch. Seems to work well with my new light rifles, which are tough to hold on the regular rest. Pretty heavy, but soft.

Ground nutshells like they seem to use in commecial ones work pretty well for small bags.

That's a fantastic idea. If mine gets wet, then I'm swapping out to this.

This are awesome Ideas ! When I was thinking about buying my new first rifle I join this forum to get info and brainstorm since I am new at rifles, boy Am I glad I did. Thanks guys.

I had a close out surplus place (Mike’s Merchandise) that had bigelow boxes full of plastic BBs for like $.25/#. I bet I bought 50# of those things. I’ve put them in old socks, cutoff BDU bottoms, etc. they’ve been far better than the old beans, rice, etc.

Using grains or beans for filler invites mice and such to chew holes in your bags. Plastic beads are the way to go.

Tie wrap the cut end on the inside, fill with sand, close with tie wrap but leave enough on the other end to make a carry handle. Don't overfill and make them hard.

Awesome lol thanks

Bags filled with light stuff like beans or plastic beads do not work for me. Toooo light.

I use lead shot bags lined with plastic bread sack and filled with sifted and clean sand.

Works for me.

Eh, I find no reason to have big and/or heavy bags, and the plastic BBs have plenty of weight/density for proper support and don’t compact rock hard like sand or small lead shot can. Two small socks with plastic BBs can also be carried in a pack, with little added weight, for front/back field expedient stuff. For small, leather, true shooting rest topper bags, and small bat wings, sand is fine.....but for full bag setups, the BBs work better for me....of course, some places I have some true sandbags that stay there as a ‘base’ elevator, to get topped with a bean bag, but I’m not lugging sandbags to/from ranges, either.

There’s enough weight. This is what I’m referring to:

Cool set up there.

LOL....they’re just some old issue socks and some worn out multi cam legs from me cutting them off into shorts, that I had sewn up.....originally for woobie stuff sacks, but then I needed bags for all those beads. LOL.....other than that cabelas knockoff of an X-bag. LOL