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What do you carry in your bag


tomgallup

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Hey everyone,

Just want to see what all of you carry in your bags to a match and the range. ( ex: sapre parts, springs, ect..)

I just got a new bag and am ready to fill it up with some stuff to make sure I am prepared at a match..

Thanks

Tom

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There's a great thread on this somewhere, but I can't find it.  I could swear it was under the Misc Beginer's forum, but I guess it's not.  I'll keep looking.

Bill

(Edited by Bill Schwab at 12:28 pm on Mar. 28, 2002)

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  • 3 months later...

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Check the next issue of Front Sight magazine (I hope it's the next issue!) for an article on this very subject by the brilliant, handsome, world traveled, all around great guy, and sometimes even halfway decent shooter.......ME!

I think Robin Taylor was mumbling something about trying to get into the Sept.? issue.

ps watch this space for more shameless plugs on more insightful, tasteful, & inspiring magazine articles and they even got good gammar too!

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Something I discovered with laptops that has transferred to shooting:  your bag will want to fill to slightly over capacity, no matter what that capacity is.  This is why I don't get a bigger bag than my Dillon.

I have a spare gun, so I bring that-- spare parts all in one handy package.   I don't usually carry it around with me though.

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Here's a list of what I carry.  I don't have a spare gun so I carry a pretty comprehensive list of spare parts (too many years spent riding Harleys long distances and as an electronics field service engineer have made me a little compulsive about carrying EVERYTHING I could possibly need.)

Accessory gear bag:

Shoes

Gore-Tex socks

Rain gear (one-piece motorcycle suit for those daylong downpours & lightweight 2 piece for intermittent showers)

Gloves (leather work gloves and Glacier Gloves for cold)

Sweatshirt

Clean Tee shirt, socks, & underwear (don’t ask)

Bandana

Hand/foot warmers

Umbrella

Hat

Garbage bags (rain covers for rangebags)

Instant cold pack, & wrap

Ace Bandage

Cool wrap neckerchief

Sun Screen

Shoestrings

Range Bag:

Gun

Holster and belt

Knee and elbow pads

Gun dust cover

Ear muffs and ear plugs

First aid kit

Rule book

Calculator

Notepad & pen

Fitted and tested spare parts:  

Guide rod, & recoil spring plug

Hammer, Sear, Disconnector, & Ambi safeties

Extractor

Ejector

Firing pin, & firing pin stop

Pin set

Slide stop

Mag. catch, & Catch lock

Barrel link

Sear spring, Mainspring, Firing pin spring, Mag. catch spring & Plunger tube spring

Bomar Rear sight blade, cross pin, & spring

C-more dot module

Scope battery

Grip screw, & scope mount screws

Cleaning gear:  

Gun oil, & grease in precision needle oilers

Bore cleaning solvent

Cleaning patches, & Q-tips

Compact cleaning kit with jags, brushes, and rods

Bore-Snake

Lens pen scope cleaner

Tools:  

Pin punch set

Take down pin

Hex key set

Extractor tension gauges

Needle file set

Sear stone

Super glue

1½-inch inside diameter clear plastic tubes:

Magazine springs

Magazine followers

Magazine brushes

Cleaning brushes

Squib rod

Dillon ammo bag:

Double the ammo the match requires.

Small Ice chest

Water

Coca Cola

Powerbar/Goo

Fruit

Frozen Gogurt

Tuna snack kit

Sandwich

Red Bull (generally for the drive home)

You will just have to read the Front Sight article to find out how I lug all this (and more!) around.

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I have found (from other forms of racing over the years) that best way to ensure you will not need anything extra is to waste countless hours planning, packing and bringing everything "just in case".  

In my case, if I brought it I didn't need it.

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  • 7 months later...

I do carry 2 guns but what else is in the bag I am never too sure, the one thing I do know is that the bigger the bag the heavier it gets.

And I never seem to have what I want when I need it. I always figutre if I have the magazines the rig, ammo and the guns I am good to go..............

lack of preperation i know.

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