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Rear Bag DIY using Squishmallows

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Nov 9, 2023
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Hi all, new here. I’m a hunter starting to stretch out my distance at the range. Wondering anyone familiar with squishmallows (kids toy) has thought of using them, or stitching up a better shaped bag, as a rear bag for long range shooting. They’re filled with little beads that are super light weight and, while I’ve never touched an Armageddon squishy bag it’s what I imagine it feeling like.

Thoughts??
 
I'd recommend this one since you can slide the stock between the ears.
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For me, I'd use the bull and really try to make the horns work...
 
If they didn't cost $35 I would.

You're daring a guy that uses a towel much like this one as a shooting mat.
Mine has flamingos instead of pineapples.

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My kids have many squishmallows. And I have many shooting bags with all the fills.


It’s not the same and a waste of money.
 
I dont think they’d work well. They’re soft, but when you squeeze them, I don’t think you’d get much displacement to move the buttstock up and down. Their fill just seems to compress.
 
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Key - fill will just compress

bad if using as rear bag, not close to as good as a schmedium with your own blend of whatever fill
 
Hi all, new here. I’m a hunter starting to stretch out my distance at the range. Wondering anyone familiar with squishmallows (kids toy) has thought of using them, or stitching up a better shaped bag, as a rear bag for long range shooting. They’re filled with little beads that are super light weight and, while I’ve never touched an Armageddon squishy bag it’s what I imagine it feeling like.

Thoughts??
Not sure about squishmallows, but I've experimented with bags of marshmallows before. Kept my groups sub half MOA all day long if I did my part.

Only problem was that the bag would always develop a hole at some point in the day, and only be half full by then end.
 
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Now that you mention it, I could see using the bigger ones in place of pump pillows for positional shooting. That said, after 2-3 of them, would cost the same as an actual pump pillow.
 
I've made a few of my own bags, one of my favorites is one I made. It has a combo of fake snow, and airsoft beads.