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It has come to my attention that when I go to the range to shoot I have a lot of junk. I have to sometimes make three trips from the truck to the benches. I am not looking for a wheel barrow or a cart to haul stuff. I am thinking more about a machinist chest or a range bag. What do you people use to carry your primary and secondary equipment in? I live close to where I shoot so it isn't like I reload there, but none the less it's amazing the amount of equipment you use. WS | ||
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I use a duffle bag to hold my sand bags, stapler, etc and a milk crate for all the other stuff (ammo holder, small tool box, targets, chrony, etc). I still need to make 2 trips to the truck though  ! | |||
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My wife says I bring to much junk also. Of course she is the one making the trips back and forth to the car. | |||
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Get one of those wire mesh carts that are sold at Grocery stores for old ladies to use to walk home from the store with. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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It seems no matter what kind of bag or chest I bring I still have to make a ton of trips to the truck. If I had one bag that would hold all of my gadgets and accessories it would probably be quite bulky. This past year I've been using a big tool box. I used cloth bags prior to. I've thought about getting one of the big tool boxes with wheels and an extension handle but, just haven't taken it that far yet. I find that I can get more stuff in a duffle than the hard box but, it stays in place in the hard box vs. getting all mixed around in the soft bags. Either work ok. Good Luck Reloader | |||
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Originally posted by Reloader:
There ya go. I keep all the tools (cleaning stuff, stapler, calipers, screwdrivers, borescope, laser boresighter, batteries for chrono, etc. in tackle boxes. Spotting scope, rifle rest in specific pelican cases, and ammo, targets etc. in a soft range bag. My buddy has one of the rolling toolboxes from Home Depot, and he keeps everything except target faces and his spotting scope in there and he makes a lot less trips up the stairs to the range deck than me! I need to find one like that I like and make it happen. Still have to go back and forth to the truck a few times, cause I usually bring 5 or 6 rifles! | |||
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Guess I'm lucky, as I can back my truck right up to the picnic table behind the shooting benches. Drop the tailgate, and my plastic milk crate is right there. Slide it onto the picnic table, grab the rifle(s) and wait for a cease fire to go put up targets. Many times I'm the only guy on the range and that is great--no flinching from the guy with the bangen-boomer with a muzzle brake next door. An old pilot, not a bold pilot, aka "the pig murdering fool" | |||
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Ditto on having a ton of stuff to lug around. I keep it all in an outsize travel bag, which I lug around. If I envisage a long haul from the vehicle to the bench, I put the bag on a crate trolley. Keeping it all in one bag helps not to forget some little thing (spare chrono batteries!?!?) | |||
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Gee, I am sure happy to see I am not the only one that seems to have an abundance of equipment. Some good ideas given! I will have to check a few of them out. Thanks for the responses! WS | |||
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I heard that! Got to the range last weekend and about 2 hours in the dang "Low Bat" started flashing and you would know I left all the spares at home  Reloader | |||
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While crusing a local "thrift" store a few years ago I noticed a large assortment of old luggage for really cheap. I got a good "hard case" medium size suit case with torn innerdeds for a couple of bucks, it works well to hold most of the small items I use at the range. Later I got another, larger one to hold my bulky items like a small tripod, chronograph, targets, etc. Works pretty well and I only have maybe $8 invested! (Bought some cheap plastic foam and cut fitted holes for protection of most items.) A five gallon "paint" bucket with a lid is good too. Mine holds the bench rest, bags, stapler, muffs. And a foam pad for my butt because at the range I use the empty bucket for a stool. Last summer I found an old-style folding golf bag cart. Got it for $5 and plan to make a hand truck from it for hauling my suit cases and rifles to the line. | |||
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I use a large, old camera bag. It is padded nicely, so it does not bend when loaded up with a bunch of ammo, like (soft) duffels tend to do. Sadly, it is not well suited for spotting scopes or tripods, which we hardly use on the range over here. Uncle Mike produced a very serviceable range bag - it was suitably sturdy and stiff in the bottom to carry heavy loads of ammo and bullets. Whatever you get, get something sturdy, stiff and much, much larger than you had originally imagined...  - mike ********************* The rifle is a noble weapon... It entices its bearer into primeval forests, into mountains and deserts untenanted by man. - Horace Kephart | |||
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Yeah, I learned the hard way too! I keep 2 or 3 in there with some electrical tape on the contacts just in case. Have been a real popular guy with others at the range a few times, when thier's bit the dust and they needed a fresh one. | |||
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I recently bought a S & W range bag. I was impressed with what it holds. I can get in 6 handguns, 3 packages of targets, 500 rounds of centerfire handgun ammo, 2 sets hearing protectors and shooting glasses, a stapler, tape, 4 exta 1911 mags, a demooner for 45 auto revolvers and a pocket knife. Then for my sandbags, shooting rest, spotting scope and chrono I have a seperate bag. I handles the weight excellently. | |||
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I got one of these range box in an older Midway edition. Holds a lot of What I really like is the ability to cradle the rifle to clean. (I carry rods in the rifle cases) ______________________ Smedley  ______________________ From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' B.H.Obullshitter ------------------------------------ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" Winston Churchill ------------------------------------ "..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." Samuel Adams ------------------------------------ Facts are immaterial to liberals. Twisted perceptions however are invaluable. ------------------------------------ We Americans were tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world. So we went to the polls in November 2008 and removed all doubt.....let's not do it again in 2012 please. | |||
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