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Most Versatile Shooting Bag – Fortune Cookie

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DRC - Fortune Cookie
Fortune Cookie Upright as it might sit over a window sill, ledge or post.

Most Versatile Shooting Bag

After a few years of use, I have come to realize that the one shooting bag that is probably the most used is the Wiebad weighted rifle bag known as a DRC Fortune Cookie. 

Here are it’s attributes which can be both a positive and a negative depending on the application:

DRC Fortune Cookie
Fortune Cookie as it might sit on it’s side to create a larger, dead surface.

Positives:

  1. It’s heavy – 6.2lbs
  2. It’s small.
  3. The media: densely packed, dead sand, I’m guessing. 
  4. Handle-strap works brilliantly. 
  5. The comma shape works well in a myriad of applications: car windows, ledges, fence posts, rear bag support, front of the rifle, back of the rifle, cradling the rifle, comma up, comma down, half-moon on it’s side.  

 

DRC - Fortune Cookie
Fortune Cookie Upright as it might sit over a window sill, ledge or post.

Negatives:

  1. It’s heavy. 6.2lbs and it feels like it. Imagine lugging around a dead, fat-ass cat. Not going to be your first choice for mountain goat hunting. There are AR-15 rifles that weigh less than this bag. 
  2. It’s small. If you need a bag to take up volume, this will never satisfy that need. 

Summation: 

I am not qualified to review or postulate opinions about precision rifle gear. The truth is, all gear is as specialized as the use case. But of the gear I own, and the use cases I encounter, I reach for the Wiebad Fortune Cookie first. Then adjust as needed. A military philosopher once said it better than I ever could:

“You go to war with the rear bag you have”

                 —Donald Rumsfeld (probably)

 

Sincerely, 

Marky

www.John1911.com

“Shooting Guns & Having Fun”

Marky