What do you guys use to fill shooting bags? I don't like sand (too abrasive) and don't like rice (collects moisture). Any other thoughts? I thought about using Airsoft plastic pellets but don't know if they are heavy enough.

Thanks

Sand. You could use lead shot. Plastic would be too light.

I have used rice with the bags staying in the blind and never had a problem with moisture. Pinto beans has worked for me in the past but like rice if left in the blind, they need to be put up in a manner that the rats don't get into the bags. Steel shot is probably the best but it is also the most expensive.

I use sand in a plastic trash bag then put that bag in a cutoff blue jean leg.I sew up the cuff and zip tie the thigh of the jean leg.

We have some Stand Bags that were made for deer stands that are great. But the seals (velcro leak). I am looking a purchasing a couple of new ones and putting lead shot in them. If steal becomes the new age of shotgunning there will be plenty of excess.

If you can find an old bean bag chair, the filler in them works great. The new ones use a styrofoam pellet that seems like it wouldn't be as good. But the older stuff works good.

Mine are filled with recycled plastic pellets. We do work for a bucket manufacturer in the area, they make, well, buckets. Their rejects get sent to a grinder that grinds them into pellets and then they reuse them to make new buckets. The stuff works great.


Jay

beans rice airsoft pellets sand juat about anything can work

If you know where there is a company that does injection molding or extrudes pipe they will have virgin materlal.This stuff has some weight to it will not hold water and is very clean and no more than you would need they would give it to you and it never wears out.

Bird seed works well also, and its not heavy like shot is

I personally vote for sand.

If rice works, then corn should too. Something will probably work pretty hard to chew into it, though.

Don't use corn- you will have weavil corn meal.

Rice works fine. Pool filter Pea gravel or gravel for fish tanks also.

I have a plastic one (made by Hornady?)
full of sand (because there is so much free
to be had for the digging at my place)

try putting a couple of bread sacks in your
bag then fill er up

I used crushed corn cob. Bought it at Tractor Supply.

Handy one that works good "Turkey mat/seat", cut thru foam front then rear, so it folds/stacks up,,still use for seat an rubber band retains it

I put the rice bags in a freezer bag then make pocket out of corduer material and put rice bags in it, never had a problem with moisture, been in the blind going on 6th or 7th season. any material around the freezer bag might work. (Blue jean) And it is a netting blind with top on it. I find coon crap and owl crap but nothing has ever bothered the rice bags other than crap where they set on it in the window. The key I think is puting it in the freezer bag first.

cat litter

I like that idea

Cattles right. I've used it for over 30 years.

mess free, doesnt hold moisture, light, cheap!!

air soft pellets. Go to academy and you can buy like 1000 for 10 or 15 $$...i use them, works great! I can even leave my bags out overnight in dew or rain with no problem!


ac

Doesn't cat litter absorb moisture? I thought that was the whole point in cat litter...maybe I'm wrong.

I use cat litter in mine. I took an old pair of jeans and cut the legs off and into two pieces each. then so up one end, fill the leg only about 2/3 of the way full and then so the other end. works great.

Jay pellets made up of recycled plastic sounds interesting, using recycled plastic profiles and decking for my home but this is really something new I heard. How did you manage to get it??

Kiddie sand for sandboxes from lowe's is filtered and works great.