Shooting Rest?

[Rawhide67]

I use a rest similar to the one pictured. With a leather bag under the buttstock. Same setup in use for unmentionables. Once I'm dialed in and know what the gun can do, I shoot offhand or lean against a post to makenit more like real life.

 

[sturmkatze]

All you guys with your PC this and your HC that and the first thing you want to do is run out and buy pre-made shooting rests.

What do you think they used 200 years ago? Hint. It wasn't Lead Sleds and custom rifle supports from the big box stores.

I use cross sticks tied together. These were made out of some broom handles I cut and sharpened on end. They’re adjustable. I don’t often go to a range.

 

[Tom Compton]

Very important.


Rest the rifle where you will put your hand when shooting offhand. Good luck!

Also, have your back in the same position as when shooting off hand.

 

[NeilMacleod]

I made my own.
Went to Dollar sore and bought a lunch bag, added ziplock bag of sand, and cut Pool noodle to size and indentation in the middle.
All for $10, and nice and solid.

 

[64Springer]

I made my own.
Went to Dollar sore and bought a lunch bag, added ziplock bag of sand, and cut Pool noodle to size and indentation in the middle.
All for $10, and nice and solid.

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Ingenious Frugality.

This thread is getting better and better.

 

[R Ellis]

Nevermind the paint, growing up my buddy shot a hole in his dad's truck hood!!

Been a few windshields broke from muzzle blast also

 

[R Ellis]

a bag full of sand or something to support the forward hand. there have been a few people who have sighted in their rifles with the barrel on a rest and then had the group shift or open up once they shoot offhand. pressure on the barrel can change things.

TRUE some people will never do it that way but it is the correct way JMHO

 

[Jimbob]

I shot my flintlock for the first time the other day and after just having fun shooting and learning it's time to get it sighted in and work on a load. What does everyone use for a shooting rest to sight in these long guns? All of my other rifles including my unmentionable have scopes and bipods so I've always just needed to run the small V cut rear sandbag Caldwell sells. I'm thinking either just getting the front Caldwell sandbag or either one of the two linked below. Or does anyone have any other recommendations? I will probably be shooting off a plastic folding table if that matters.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1015052687?pid=682659
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1015049090?pid=610698

In my experience the platform you shoot off is just as important as the rest you put on it. A wobbly plastic table ain’t going to do you much good. A concrete shooting bench works well.

 

[Panama Red]

a bag full of sand or something to support the forward hand. there have been a few people who have sighted in their rifles with the barrel on a rest and then had the group shift or open up once they shoot offhand. pressure on the barrel can change things.

All my groups open up when I’m not using a rest, LOL!
-Red, kind of shaky…

 

[Mike in FL]

My 2 cents: I'm 75. Been sighting in rifles since age 16. Although truck hoods and makeshift rests work okay, I've learned to arrange something that positively fixes the butt and forestock solidly for each shot. Two sandbags, homemade or commercial, are enough if placed on a solid bench where the shooter can seat himself. Even better, and my preferred method, is a store-bought adjustable contraption that allows you to adjust the rest to find the dead center of your target and hold it there. I mean the kind of rest you can remove your gun from for cleaning or whatever, return it and note that your sights are very near where they were before, and only minimal adjustment of the rest or rifleis needed to again find that dead center. Then you simply take hold of the gun and make whatever small shifting effort to insure the shot can be made with perfect alignment. But yes, two rolled up towels will do the job.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

3 pages of blather over a shooting rest. Good grief.

 

[Mulebrain]

3 pages of blather over a shooting rest. Good grief.

I am rather enjoying all the ideas, thanks for sharing all

 

[French Colonial]

Here is a good deal on a Farley....

https://ssaagunsales.com/listing/16455

 

[BackDraft]

Alvin York Approves.

“I ain’t much good at this here practizing, Sergeant.”

 

[Dave Dworshak]

Empty shot bags filled with sand works. Using the hood of my pickup not so well. I had to do
some scrubbing to get the black out of the hood.

 

[Ed C.]

3 pages of blather over a shooting rest. Good grief.

For somebody, there is always something of value in "blather".

 

[Sparkplug]

My preferred rest is a bow yoke from a boat trailer. The one I have is used both at the range and in my shooting house.

 

[appalichian hunter]

3 pages of blather over a shooting rest. Good grief.

Really nothing is blather when one's quest is for ideals that enhance ones ability. Especially without spending a fortune on equipment. The quest for knowledge and ideals leads to great inventions so to speak.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

I made a pair of shooting sticks with a leather sling between them to hold the rifle in place. I have zero money in the sticks and so far has worked fine for sighting in my rifle. Just remember the butt pad if the ground is damp.
Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[Loyalist Dave]

If you want to be PC lay down on the ground and rest the muzzle end on a chunk of log. Either that or shoot off your hind legs.

Don't forget the chunk of moss between the gun and the log when the recoil makes the rifle "spring".

LD