chamber flags

[les snyder]

for you match directors, that might be thinking about adding 3 gun to your disciplines, an inexpensive chamber flag to provide for new shooters ... a simple orange, yellow or other high visibility plastic cable tie, with a loop large enough to not go down the barrel can be distributed at sign up....if muzzle up carry is preferred at your range, lowering the bolt keeps it in place... this pic was for another forum, and I did not have any high viz colors, but you get the idea

[kmitch200]

Good idea!
I just happen to have some yellow ones laying around.

[Ranger Dave]

On our camp range I use yellow weed eater line with bright colored duct tape as a flag.

Ranger Dave

[philw]

On our camp range I use yellow weed eater line with bright colored duct tape as a flag.

Ranger Dave

we use those in air rifles  and they go the full length of the barrel as well

we also use that line and a yellow tag stuck to the end for .22's     have a big plastic yellow one  for everything else
it is a range rule for my club as well   

[vincewarde]

Sac Valley Shooting Center began requiring purpose made chamber flags a few years ago.  These have a much larger and more viable head on them, enabling the RSO to see them from several hundred feet away.  They cost about a buck a piece......

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[MikeBjerum]

We make chamber flags out of orange string trimmer line and plastic milk jug caps. 

Drill a small hole in the lip of the cap, attach a three foot length of the plastic line, and you have a chamber indicator that will fit anything, and is highly visible.

I make these up while watching old movies in the winter.  I drill the hole tight for the line, and after inserting the line through the hole I put a dab of silicone on each side of the cap.  This give a secure bond, and is the simplest way I have found to make the connection.