40 Small Items to Improve Your Shooting Range Bag

The Propper Range Bag, shown above, is available in olive and black and has room for all your shooting-range supplies, big or small.

Of course, you pack the important stuff in your range bag – such as eye and ear protection, first aid kit, extra mags, speed loaders, you know the drill. What about the little stuff? The stuff that can make all the difference between suffering and success on the range? Have you packed that stuff? Do you know what it is?

We asked The Well Armed Woman chapter leaders from across the nation about the little stuff in their range bags. Here’s what they listed:

1. Tape measure to measure target grouping and distances
2. Wet wipes (Hoppe's Lead-B-Gone is a great option)
3. A piece of weed-whacker line - to check for blockage in a barrel
4. Chapstick
5. Extra socks
6. Tweezers – for splinter removal
7. Manicure kit – for broken nails, and has been used in a pinch as tool kit for a gun
8. Sharpie
9. Bandana – for head, sweat or rag to wipe grease
10. Shooting log book with Rite in the Rain pen
11. Tongue depressers – to hold across rear sight to teach sight alignment
12. Bore snake
13. Dummy rounds
14. Left and right hand diagnostic targets – to help others learn where they need to improve grouping
15. Leatherman
16. Tape of all types – plaster, plumbers, painters, duct
17. Spray sunscreen
18. Leather work gloves
19. Tissues
20. Maglula Uplula magazine loader
21. Pasties to cover up target holes
22. Bug spray
23. Lead wipes
24. Rain poncho
25. Flashlight
26. Cleaning kit
27. Brass rod
28. Bore light
29. Shower cap – to cover gun if it will be in the rain for a while before you shoot it
30. Safety vest
31. Hair ties
32. Lavender oil – for brass burns
33. Angle tweezers and forceps – for getting stuck rounds out of barrels
34. Batteries
35. Glasses cleaner wipes
36. Optics cleaning pen
37. DOPE card
38. Spent brass bag
39. Shooting gloves
40. Luggage tag – place on outside of your bag

 
Have you checked your range bag lately? How could you make your life better with the addition of a few of these tiny items?