Made a rear bag...

[greentick]

Respectfully submitted for shits, grins, and general entertainment. Spent a couple hours on this today. A lightweight rear bag. Turned out 'bout how I expected.

I will say this to anyone who has looked at some of the nice offerings seen on this very site and paused/cringed at the price. There is a fair amount of labor involved in one of these. Unless they're outsourced to a huighur concentration camp, anything of this sort that's made in the US is probably fairly priced. My hat's off to any cottage industry manufacturers who see this.

A fun experiment on an afternoon off.

 

[FisherT&C]

What did you use for filler?

 

[mcfred]

That looks great. Thanks for sharing. Did you design off an existing product or just wing it?

I've stitched some together myself. This is actually my second rear bag. The first one lasted me about 8 years before the seams blew out. They can take a bit of time to fab from scratch, but if you plan ahead you can streamline production.

Camera kind of washed out the color, but it's more a charcoal grey in person.

 

[Mojo0254]

That looks great. Thanks for sharing. Did you design off an existing product or just wing it?

I've stitched some together myself. This is actually my second rear bag. The first one lasted me about 8 years before the seams blew out. They can take a bit of time to fab from scratch, but if you plan ahead you can streamline production.

Camera kind of washed out the color, but it's more a charcoal grey in person.

What did you make that suppressor cover out of?

 

[mcfred]

Double layer of canvas, with a thin sheet of PTFE and "heavy duty" aluminum foil quilted together. I didn't trust any other synthetic materials (besides Kevlar $$$) not to melt and stick. Intended for bolt-gun operation only. No 10" AR mag dumps. Really only intended to keep the mirage down between shot strings.

 

[Boon20]

This is my second one made, same basic shape as the first minus a hole from barb wire. Im not skilled with a sewing maching so talked my ma into making them got her working on version 3 to keep it more symmetrical. Have them filled with sand. I never was a fan of those bulky rear bags.

 

[greentick]

What did you use for filler?

This stuff

Store - Box to Bench Precision

Ultra Light weight: 28 Liters is only 1 lb Waterproof Chemical Resistant Dust free Non-Shearing (does not break apart) Mold Resistant Lightest fill available anywhere Perfect Lock-In Minimally deformable Fantastic surface shape conformity 3-5mm oblate spheroid pellets

www.boxtobenchprecision.com

Total project weight was 3.5oz

 

[greentick]

That looks great. Thanks for sharing. Did you design off an existing product or just wing it?

I've stitched some together myself. This is actually my second rear bag. The first one lasted me about 8 years before the seams blew out. They can take a bit of time to fab from scratch, but if you plan ahead you can streamline production.

Camera kind of washed out the color, but it's more a charcoal grey in person.

Design based on beating the old sock filled with beans.

Looked a few pics on this site and wanted a roughly something 4"x6"x8" dimensions.

This was just fooling around. I had bought the materials for a project I never did, just wanted to do it and I needed a rear bag to replace the old sock. The name tapes came off of old BDUs. If I do a rev 2, I think I'd make the ends oval shaped to avoid sewing corners and speed up completion.

I need a suppressor cover but I believe I'll pass on that project. I like your use of available material...

 

[mcfred]

Design based on beating the old sock filled with beans.

That's pretty much how I got mine sorted out. I eventually found some of that injection moulding poly bead material and swapped out the beans, mostly because it was lighter and not likely to rot/germinate if I got caught in the rain.