Rear bag suggestions?

I have never used bipods and don't ever intend to. I shoot with my oldest grandson and SIL some and both use bipods and I outshoot both so why change? Prone became undoable several years ago. Too hard to become verticle again. Have a bum neck from a long ago accident and it doesn't appreciate being used in the prone position either. I wind up with a crick in my neck and a headache.

Being an inverate tinkerer I built my front rest. I also built two windage adjustable tops for it. The first was from aluminum and stainless steel. The second, just as an experiment, was from delrin with a little light aluminum plate for corner reinforcement, and stainless. I changed the design slightly to make it easier to build. It seems to work just as well as the all metal one and less costly material wise. Not as shiny but completely servicable. At close to 18 pounds for the all metal version I have no trouble with it moving around.

The rear bag remains the same Proketor. I used to buy empty bags, go out in the pasture, and fill them. PIA and I decided the additional cost for a filled one was worth it. I have never experimented with any filling but dirt. Nothing is deader than dirt. Yes, it's heavy but IMO heavy when bench shooting is a good thing. Heavy tends to stay where you put it.
 
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I've been a casual shooter/reloader since I was 17, but decided to get serious about reloading precision and accuracy now that I'm supposed to have free time on my hands...

I collected good assortment of the latest and greatest canvas bags, none of which I could make work with any sort of repeatable consistency.

I finally bought a Protektor "original" hard bottom rabbit ear bag, after a little fine tuning the filler, I now set-up and get right back into my groove.

On that note of chasing consistency, it also finally dawned on me one day to snug the screws on my bi-pod, that alone was an appreciable improvement.
 
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Assuming that you aren't talking about something for bench rest use, I use two. I have a heavy shmedium gamechanger for when I won't be carrying it around and a lite filled pint sized game changer for when I will be carrying it. They work very well and have been way better than anything else I've tried.
 
The first rear bag I bought was a simple can-style bag from midway. It was a noticeable improvement over my sand sock and not a lot of money. I have an eared, basic protector bag I use now from the bench or when I want to get smoked shooting in f-class. It’s more stable but it does work best with an adjustable front rest. I want one of the game changer schmedium or mini bags but I don’t really need one. I keep thinking I’ll try a local prs or nrl style match but I keep not doing it.
 
Socks and a nylon bag I found at Walmart. Filled with Aquarium Gravel. Also from Walmart. I put it in a heavy duty Ziplock bag first.

I have a throw bag I made. Duffel bag filled with rubber mulch from Home Depot. Tied, wrapped over. Tied again. My son using it as a rest out of the back of his truck.

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Thank you all for the suggestions. I know me, and I know my schedule, ... so I also know that I'm not likely to build my own shooting bag, at least not in the near future. So I'll likely buy one. But as I'm looking at this, I realize that for shooting from the bench, I have:
1. The Rat, which has a bipod;
2. a Howa Mini, which doesn't have a bipod, but really needs one; and
3. The 10/22 Sporter, which has a front sling swivel, so I can't even put my bipod on it without making at least a couple of changes.

With all of that said, I'm sorely tempted to try out this, as it gets me both a rear bag for the first two rifles, and a front back for the second one, at least until I figure out what I'm doing on that front. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
 
I don't care for those Caldwell rear bags. Unless the design has changed, the ears fill with the base. You can't just empty some sand out of the base to tailor it to your liking. When you do, the ears empty. In addition, I don't like a soft bottom bag like that. It tends to rock and isn't as stable as a hard bottomed bag.
 
ColtPythonElite said:
I don't care for those Caldwell rear bags.
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Me neither. I needed a higher rear bag and bought a Caldwell because it was cheap. It didn't take me long to realize how unstable it was. I finally got a hard bottom Protektor. Much better.

Unless you're just goofing around, forget the Caldwell.
 
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