I have decided that instead of storing all my shooting equipment in my gunsafe, I will store the stuff that I always take to the range in a double pistol-size case. In the case, I have ear muffs, ear plugs, a marker, thumbtacks, a multitool (pliars, philips + flathead screwdrivers), and stappler. I intend to add a few screws to help hold cardboard cutout targets onto backing. Does anyone have suggestions as to what else to add to the case in regards to range supplies? Does anyone else have a case/bag so they can just grab their gun(s), ammo, case/bag and go? Thanks.
Range Case/Bag
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Big Calhoun
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I have a range bag and pretty much keep everything except my carry weapon in there. Each gun has its own nylon zipper pouch and I store them on the sides. In the main compartment, I keep a ammo box with dessicant, and...ammo, as well as 'range' magazines (read: empty magazines). I also have a litle notebook portfolio that I store my reciepts in and use to jot down addresses and things when I meet people at the range. There's also a travel-cleaning kit, CLP, some patches, a Galco catalog, snap-caps, and a few other odds and ends floating about. I just like to keep everything in one place and it makes it wasy when I hit the back porch and clean multiple guns. Although, some of the nieghbors get kind of sketchy when they see the 'black bag'.
I'll never understand it...I'm one of the nicest and helpful nieghbors around here. Paranoia.
I'll never understand it...I'm one of the nicest and helpful nieghbors around here. Paranoia.
I understand it -- it comes from watching movies. How many times have some bunch of bad guys shown up to rob a bank or take over the world, and are toting a BIG, BLACK RANGE BAG? They open it up, and it's got half a dozen hi-cap mags, some extra pistols, and five flavors of grenades, at the very least.
If that's all I knew about range bags, I'd be nervous, too!
dmftoy1
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after lusting after a bagmaster bag for a long time I bought this one:
http://www.mle-shootingsports.com/pro_shooters_range_bag.htm
(not from that dealer) Setting it side by side with the same size bagmaster I have to say that the bagmaster is a little nicer but not $120 more nicer. FWIW. I'm pretty happy with that bag. I just recieved an email from somebody I shop with that these are back in stock but I can't remember.
Have a good one,
Dave
http://www.mle-shootingsports.com/pro_shooters_range_bag.htm
(not from that dealer) Setting it side by side with the same size bagmaster I have to say that the bagmaster is a little nicer but not $120 more nicer. FWIW. I'm pretty happy with that bag. I just recieved an email from somebody I shop with that these are back in stock but I can't remember.
Have a good one,
Dave
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I have a nice i-Shot I won.
This does not look like "gun" , "computer" , or "tool" bag.
I have joked it was a Diaper bag or Soft-Sided ice chest.
I still use a backpack. I am a older returning Student, so this fits me and what folks are used to seeing me with.
I have a number of classmates that do use the backpacks with built in handle and rollers.
Some are physically limited either temporary [recovering from injury/surgery] or have permanent limitations.
Diaper Bags and Soft-Sided ice chests do work quite well.
Knitting bags work quite well , not just for ladies. Some of these are "very generic", and they can "be" anything from actually being a knitting bag for a lady to a "tote bag" for one to carry toys, coloring books, and whatever else to entertain a kid.
Endless ideas for long guns exist as well...
This does not look like "gun" , "computer" , or "tool" bag.
I have joked it was a Diaper bag or Soft-Sided ice chest.
I still use a backpack. I am a older returning Student, so this fits me and what folks are used to seeing me with.
I have a number of classmates that do use the backpacks with built in handle and rollers.
Some are physically limited either temporary [recovering from injury/surgery] or have permanent limitations.
Diaper Bags and Soft-Sided ice chests do work quite well.
Knitting bags work quite well , not just for ladies. Some of these are "very generic", and they can "be" anything from actually being a knitting bag for a lady to a "tote bag" for one to carry toys, coloring books, and whatever else to entertain a kid.
Endless ideas for long guns exist as well...
Brian Williams
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Get a good tool bag
I use a Bucket Boss Long Boy, it is over 24" long and will take my Marlin 39M after I take it apart. I have had the 39M, a 1911, a Glock 19, Colt Woodsman and 6 or 8 S&W revolvers in it along with all the ammo for a mornings shoot.
Not tacticool by a long shot but it works and shows no wear after a year, I got it for $6.95 and free shipping by getting an Amazon credit card, which I kept for a year and have canceled.
I use a Bucket Boss Long Boy, it is over 24" long and will take my Marlin 39M after I take it apart. I have had the 39M, a 1911, a Glock 19, Colt Woodsman and 6 or 8 S&W revolvers in it along with all the ammo for a mornings shoot.
Not tacticool by a long shot but it works and shows no wear after a year, I got it for $6.95 and free shipping by getting an Amazon credit card, which I kept for a year and have canceled.
P5 Guy
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My range bag keeps getting too heavy so I have to take stuff out of it all the time.
Otis cleaning kit, eyes and ears, tape and a multi-tool are the things that don't get removed.
Otis cleaning kit, eyes and ears, tape and a multi-tool are the things that don't get removed.
C96
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I've been using a Dillon Range bag for twenty years, still looks good, works good but it does look like a range bag. Not as cool as using a diaper bag. 
Bought one for my son's birthday a few years back, paid about $70 for it.
It is on their web site somewhere, just not easy to find.
http://dillonprecision.com/template/p.cfm?maj=27&min=0&dyn=1&
Allan
Bought one for my son's birthday a few years back, paid about $70 for it.
It is on their web site somewhere, just not easy to find.
http://dillonprecision.com/template/p.cfm?maj=27&min=0&dyn=1&
Allan
I keep my stuff in my range bag. I just add pistols, put ammo in my "tool kit" looking bag, which came with some handy inserts, pick up my bag of targets and go. My tripod for the Chrono stays in the back of the Blazer with all the baseball stuff.
You could throw ammo and a pistol ot two in the "tool bag" and no one would think it was anything else but tools. Brian had a great point about using a tool bag for all your stuff.
Midway has a bag on sale that would be hard to beat for the money. It is basically identical to my 5.11 bag that I gave $80 for and like very much.
You could throw ammo and a pistol ot two in the "tool bag" and no one would think it was anything else but tools. Brian had a great point about using a tool bag for all your stuff.
Midway has a bag on sale that would be hard to beat for the money. It is basically identical to my 5.11 bag that I gave $80 for and like very much.
DMK
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I use something like Brian Williams posted. It's probably 10x24" inside. With all the pockets, it allows me to keep tools in one pocket, first aid stuff in another, ear/eye protection in another, etc. That way I always know where to find something. The targets lay down on the bottom of the main compartment and I put handguns in pistol rugs and stack them on top. I usually put mags in a pouch or pouches and stuff them in there too.
Rifle mags and rifle ammo usually get carried in a canvas GI Buttpack bag (but I rarely go to the range will less than 500 rounds of rifle and pistol ammo combined). Rifles obviously pack separately in a hard case.
Rifle mags and rifle ammo usually get carried in a canvas GI Buttpack bag (but I rarely go to the range will less than 500 rounds of rifle and pistol ammo combined). Rifles obviously pack separately in a hard case.
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