Rear Bag DIY using Squishmallows

[Phenometron]

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??

 

[D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷]

“Go be poor somewhere else”

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[Mike Casselton]

I'd recommend this one since you can slide the stock between the ears.

For me, I'd use the bull and really try to make the horns work...

 

[Caymanboy]

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...

I dare you.

 

[Mike Casselton]

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.

 

[camocorvette]

“Go be poor somewhere else”

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“Put rice in a tube sock”
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Still have a green wool sock full of air soft bbs from like 2008....

Also love my gamechanger haha

 

[OREGUN]

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.

 

[PappyM3]

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.

 

[TheOtherAndrew]

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

 

[beetroot]

On a slightly related tangent, rear bags, game changers make excellent door stops.

 

[hlee]

On a slightly related tangent, rear bags, game changers make excellent door stops.

If you have slick tile, take it to the next level with a sticky game changer…

 

[Dobermann]

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.

 

[gunsnjeeps]

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.

Carry two bags, problem solved.

 

[Sblzrd65]

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.

 

[NewsShooter]

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.

 

[Rogerthatout]

I’m thinking moon sand is pretty squooshy. I have some on my bench, just haven’t had the energy to pack it in a bag yet. It’s almost like clay.