Rear Bag DIY using Squishmallows

Phenometron · Nov 9, 2023

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 · Nov 9, 2023

“Go be poor somewhere else”

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“Put rice in a tube sock”
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Mike Casselton · Nov 26, 2023

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 · Dec 4, 2023

Mike Casselton said:
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 · Dec 4, 2023

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 · Dec 4, 2023

D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷ said:
“Go be poor somewhere else”

-SnipersHide

“Put rice in a tube sock”
-Also SnipersHide

Still have a green wool sock full of air soft bbs from like 2008....

Also love my gamechanger haha

OREGUN · Dec 4, 2023

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 · Dec 5, 2023

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 · Dec 5, 2023

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 · Dec 8, 2023

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

hlee · Dec 8, 2023

beetroot said:
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 · Dec 11, 2023

Phenometron said:
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 · Dec 18, 2023

Dobermann said:
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 · Jan 11, 2024

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 · Jan 12, 2024

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 · Sep 8, 2024

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.

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