Liberty1776
09-05-2022, 10:56 PM
Bought a set of unfilled Caldwell DeadShot shooting bags. They were $16.10 way back then...in ancient 2017. (They're $26 now. Let's go, Brandon!)
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Initially filled them with beanbag plastic pellets at $3.52 per pound. Took three pounds. The Styrofoam pellets fly all over the place, were very difficult to handle, didn't fill the bags, and the bags were very light. They felt and acted like beanbag chairs -- not very supportive. So I've got $12 of pellets I don't even like. Not recommended at all.
A guy on YouTube uses kitty litter.
https://youtu.be/f3m6nm1wRSc
Walmart sells basic unscented, non-clumping 7-lb bags of clay kitty litter for $1.58 each. I needed 1-1/2 bags. Ill use the remaining litter to soak up future oil spills in the garage.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kitty-Diggin-s-Fragrance-Free-Cat-Litter-7-lbs/21268937?athbdg=L1100
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To pour the kitty litter cleanly into the bags' spouts, the guy instructed his listeners to rummage through your neighbor's trash and locate a 1.75L plastic whiskey bottle.(Clearly, no one on this forum would be caught dead owning a plastic whiskey bottle, amirite? A Kessler bottle works perfectly, not that I had one....)
Cut the mouth and bottom off with a knife or a bandsaw. Perfect funnel with a long neck large enough to take the coarse kitty litter.
For the smaller bag, I used a cut-off 2-liter soda bottle (from my own trash, of course) that also makes a useful, wide-spout funnel. (This funnel is great for pouring powder back into its jar from the powder-drop after reloading. No spills. But I digress.)
My kitty-littered bags now have heft and are very full and sturdy.
For all of $3.00.
304119
Initially filled them with beanbag plastic pellets at $3.52 per pound. Took three pounds. The Styrofoam pellets fly all over the place, were very difficult to handle, didn't fill the bags, and the bags were very light. They felt and acted like beanbag chairs -- not very supportive. So I've got $12 of pellets I don't even like. Not recommended at all.
A guy on YouTube uses kitty litter.
https://youtu.be/f3m6nm1wRSc
Walmart sells basic unscented, non-clumping 7-lb bags of clay kitty litter for $1.58 each. I needed 1-1/2 bags. Ill use the remaining litter to soak up future oil spills in the garage.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kitty-Diggin-s-Fragrance-Free-Cat-Litter-7-lbs/21268937?athbdg=L1100
304120
To pour the kitty litter cleanly into the bags' spouts, the guy instructed his listeners to rummage through your neighbor's trash and locate a 1.75L plastic whiskey bottle.(Clearly, no one on this forum would be caught dead owning a plastic whiskey bottle, amirite? A Kessler bottle works perfectly, not that I had one....)
Cut the mouth and bottom off with a knife or a bandsaw. Perfect funnel with a long neck large enough to take the coarse kitty litter.
For the smaller bag, I used a cut-off 2-liter soda bottle (from my own trash, of course) that also makes a useful, wide-spout funnel. (This funnel is great for pouring powder back into its jar from the powder-drop after reloading. No spills. But I digress.)
My kitty-littered bags now have heft and are very full and sturdy.
For all of $3.00.