Anyone here apply some sort of lube to their bag? Specifically, the front bag on whatever type of rest you use.

For example, a narrow Protektor or Caldwell with the leather material where the rifle stock rests.

My plastic stocked rifles don't slip freely on this material. I have used baby powder in the past, messy.

I'm considering using a silicone grease. Or KY would draw interesting comments from fellow shooters I suppose. Good for a grin though.

I do wipe my bag and fore stock with cloth before shooting, but there is still "stiction" where stock will not slide freely.

Thoughts?

I guess I would try a piece of wax paper or parchment paper before I'd get into greases, lubes or powders. Probably work and no clean-up to speak of, other than wad it up and throw it in the trash at the range.

Must...not...make...joke...

Beat me to it.

Glad it's not just me.

Whew !! I thought this was gonna be XXX for sure . Try a piece of nylon material , it's slippery without being messy .

Not what I thought I was going to see.

There is a big difference between rubbing lotion on your bag and rubbing your bag with lotion.......

Couldn't resist.

Can’t deal with baby powder but gots the stickies?
They sell Teflon tape that goes on the forearm. How it comes off, don’t know as I have only seen it on BR rifles.
In your case I think this is the easiest solution.

https://protektormodel.com/products/1-small-owl-ear-front-bag?variant=16199985070170

They work.

Might be a solution cra1948. Or a thin cloth. I recall Jb saying he'll sometimes lay a towel over bag to make surface a bit softer as I recall.

Otherwise, there's lots of opportunity for this thread to be sort of entertaining?

Here's some comments from the br folks I found via google:

Secret women's spray deodorant with powder works well if you can still find it. Would jock itch powder work too?

Sinclair bag wax, works no matter what the humidity is

https://shop.kgcoatings.com/kg/product/kg-9-micro-ptfe-leatherkote/

Bacon grease

Apply Teflon tape to bag?

Thanks swifty, the slick silver might be worth a look.

Since I been seeing all the class action lawyer 3rd world tv ads about women using baby powder (talc) and getting vageeny cancer I don't want to risk me using baby powder on the front bag and getting cancer.

Ideal is a substance I can apply with a swab on the bag and have it stay moist during my shooting session. Then wipe off after done.

Back in the day the old benchresters used to use Motor Mica which was not messy...nowadays I think you can go to the hardware and next to the graphite lock lube, there is usually some 'white graphite'. I use spray silicone, not as good, but no mess at all. I see various outfits selling sandbags with grippy black rubber on them...wtf? isn't that the opposite of what is needed?

No, the stock.



Leather doesn’t really work that way, most of my front bags are so old they are naturally slick. Gave you the easiest solution since you don’t like baby powder which takes away moisture and makes the bag slicker, but you want to do the reverse by adding moisture that won’t soak into the leather.

Carry on. Rabbit hole not leading to wonderland forthcoming.

I place two playing cards under my rifle stock on the front bag. Seems to work for me.

I'd just use my "wild rag" - a cowboy's neckerchief, often made of silk or a silk blend.

Dryer sheets rubbed on the bags is pretty common. You definitely don't want any sort of oily lube. I normally use baby powder on the rear bag but in high humidity it can get sticky....then I switch to something else even with stock tape on the BR guns. The best stock tape is PTFE which is normally tan in color. I have some clear PTFE tape from an industrial application but it's very hard to get.

Good shootin' -Al

I want to find some of the stuff that Clark Griswold used on the bottom of the disk Christmas Vacation.

100% Neatsfoot oil the hell out of everything, good stuff.

Neets soaks in and can plug the pores of the leather causing the bag to dry up, causing cracking and turn the leather to dust. Also is known to attract and hold dust and grime. Also known to rot away some stitching as it’s acidic.

You'd lean into your rifle and sling yourself right off the front of your bench. Yikes.

LOL, at least it would be a show for sure.....

And, it would go down as one of the greatest posts ever in one of those "What I Saw at the Range" threads.

Baby powder sucks donkey balls in damp weather. Superglue would be a better lube...

At one time Sinclair sold powdered carnuaba wax which was excellent but I noticed they don't carry it anymore. Good thing I bought a couple of bottles.

Swifty had a good suggestion with the Protektor bag. I've never shot the silver bag, they do make a Cordova variation. That coupled with sailkote spray is slicker than pig snot. I've used sailkote on leather bags without any issues.

Thanks for all the suggestions gents!

I'm going to experiment using the following suggestions:

1) rub down the front and rear bag, plastic fore stock, with clothes dryer sheets (thanks Al)

2) Buy the SailKote spray and apply to front and rear bags, plastic fore stock (thanks AJ) https://www.westmarine.com/buy/mclube--sailkote-high-performance-dry-lubricant-8-oz--17757741 I need to go to local boat place to get some Marine-Tex to bed a project gun (is in stock) and maybe they have the SailKote also.

3) alternative: wax paper, poker cards, thin cloth sprayed w/silicone waterproof product I have on hand. My intention is to avoid solutions that ad an additional item needed to put on bag and have wind blow off if I lift gun and so forth. (thanks gents)

Abandon: KY jelly as it's weird and as suggested wet lubes probably not a good method for reasons cited above.

I might invest in that Protektor silver skin bag. I'll start with the front and rear bags on hand.

That slick silver is a 3M slick cloth. It doesn’t need any additional product. I used a variation of that for 25+ years on seal bars for shrink wrap packaging machines. It PTFE impregnated, stands up to a 410 degree hot knife pressed against it getting cycled 2000 times in 8 hrs for about 3-4 weeks. Nothing sticks to it.

I used to keep a piece of heavy vacuum bag- evidence bag. I would place it on the bag first

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The bag sounds interesting. If they ever start running BR matches around here again I'd be thinking about picking one up and trying it out.

The powdered wax used on treadmill belts works very well on bags. -Al

Mostly ground up paraffin.