WieBad Rear Bag: Discussing What, Why and How.
To start off with, I would define rear bags as: a multi-shaped, often square or rectangular, bag that provides a shooter multiple elevation options with squeezable adjustability that allows an individual to make and hold micro-adjustments on their aiming point through iron sites or a scope reticle.
The rear bag is a necessary piece of kit that every shooter, whether you are a hunter or competitive shooter, uses on a regular basis. It is just as essential as the rifle. No matter what discipline we are practicing we are eventually going to find ourselves in a shooting position that requires rear rifle support. In the beginning, we were limited on the gear. Over the years companies, such as WieBad Gear, have emerged offering solutions to fit all styles of rifles and the terrain we shoot from. Coincidently this is a forever evolving venture.
Early in my shooting experience, mostly what was available to the average hunter or shooter were Manners or McMillan Stocks. These rifles didn’t require much height out of a rear bag due to its sloping rear butt-stock design. This design allowed the shooter to use square or even tube like designs. In fact, you saw many shooters using socks filled with rice or beans. Some time around 2013 Todd Reynold came out with one of the first available skeleton style chassis systems called the Rock Solid Stock. All of a sudden the standard square rear bags didn’t offer enough height as a rear bag due to the empty space in front of the butt stock of the stock. That’s where WieBad’s design was conceived, planned and born. The bag was designed with a multi-deminsional purpose in mind to accommodate all stocks. It measured 1″x6″x9″. Flat on its side, as a squeeze rear bag, it could elevate with grip pressure from 1″-3″. On it’s side, it could elevate from 3″ fully compressed to 6″. When stood on its end, it could elevate the rear of the rifle from 6″ to 9″. This rear bag, referred to as the Loop Bag, is still offered and in use today. The design has stood the test of time and still manages to fit new chassis systems being released.
Today, there is a wide variety of rear bags in use designed to fit any need a specific shooter may have based on rifle and terrain. Often, shooters use their favorite bags that were not originally intended to be a rear bag, but fill the need quite nicely. Take the Fortune Cookie for instance. This product was spin off of our Range Cube product line. By simply cutting an arch out of the Range Cube and flattening the top by half an inch we created a useful bag that can be placed on anything from tree branches to a pipe fences in the field. The versatility of the Fortune Cookie is, in fact, unparalleled by any of our other products. Competitive shooters that use this bag adapt it to a rear bag by either using the arch as a pinch point or by using one of the points as a squeeze bag to manipulate elevation. I invite you to see what we have to offer and what may fit your shooting style. You can look at our Stability Bags to see the entire shooting bag offering or more specifically our Rear Bag category. What ever type of product you choose and grow your proficiency with, there is no doubt, these products are necessary for accurate shot placement.
