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Zach Zinn
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Filling a heavy bag

I'm replacing mine and ended up with an Outslayer bag I need to fill. It looks pretty decent, I want to get 80-100lbs in there ideally. I've heard/read a bunch of different things and was thinking about alternating clothes with bangs of sand, as shown in this Wikihow: https://www.wikihow.com/Fill-a-Punching-Bag

Has anyone does this, how successful were you, did you anything differently than what's shown here?

Wastelander
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I haven't filled one, myself, although I have heard some feedback from people who have. The clothing option works well, and if it's the 6ft bag and you compact the cloth strips well enough, you shouldn't really need sandbags (Outslayer bags don't come with them when you buy the factory-filled ones, anyway). If you want extra weight, it seems the general consensus is to avoid the sandbags and build a weighted core--the method I have seen has been to get a length of 4" diameter PVC pipe, fill it with sand, and cap both ends, because it won't shift to the outside of the bag like the sandbags will, creating hard spots.

Zach Zinn
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Thanks Noah. I ended up filling it with some donated cut up clothing, and then stuffing (more finely shredded clothing) as well as four sandbags from the old bag. I'm definitely a convert now to filling them yourself. It's a bit of pain but you can tailor the weight, weight distribution, tautness etc. to your tastes and I have to say it's the first bag I've ever had at home that feels "just right". I intentionally stuffed it so that the larger pieces of clothing are at the bottom in the hopes that it helps avoid the gradual cement-like bottom on most other bags I've had.

Zach Zinn
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Just an update, the sandbags are definitely shifting around. If it continues to be a problem I'm going to try the weighted core method and report back.