I'm always interested in what other muzzleloaders do, no matter what it is ”” from what they shoot to why they shoot to how they shoot and what they use to get their perfect loads for the situation. Anyway, I was wondering what bench shooters use for sandbags for stabilizing their rifles. Here's something I picked up on Youtube from a shooter that is a money-saver and pretty clever. I drug some really old camo gear out of my closet that I think I got for dove hunting way back in about 1967 or '68. I weighed 140 lbs. back then and it SURE doesn't fit me anymore. I cut the legs off, turned them inside out and used heavy beeswax-soaked thread and sewed up one side, then turned them back to the outside of the material and sewed up about 3/4 of the other cut end and used a funnel to fill it with fine pea gravel I found in a bag in my garage we'd used for a fish tank decades ago. Filled it, then finished sewing the end and voila ... a nice bench rest sand bag that works really well. Made three of them to stabilize the front end of my rifle, then two smaller one's using really heavy hunting socks I had from long ago, got one of those big and cheap bags of long-grained rice, filled them using a cable tie to close it tight, to stabilize the rifle butt. I keep them in a zip lock bag to keep the rice from soaking up humidity from the air. Found a large, heavy-weight mechanics canvas tool bag on Amazon for less than $20 to carry them to the range. The pea gravel is pretty weighty but less than sand, and you don't have to worry about the sand finding tiny holes between threads and spilling out everywhere. I just couldn't talk myself into buying one of those pricey rifle rests you find on the internet. This a really inexpensive way to stabilize your rifle on a target and it's very adaptable to position your rifle stock. I'm interested in what others do and if they have some innovative ways of stabilizing their ML when bench shooting.