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Can some of you offer advice on designing a proper standing rest for sighting-in heavy recoiling rifles. I would like to build something simple on my property. _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | ||
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Portable with a rest for the right elbow (RH shooters) would also be nice features. | |||
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I have put some thought but no action into a standing rest. Most ideas would require adjustments to many places or just made to fit one size person. What I have been doing to sight in is a good set of rigid sticks and put my elbow/forearm against my truck camper shell. Can get a steady hold. Shoot at an angle so you recoil away from the truck or it will really hurt. I usually shoot in the Arizona desert so I can park and shoot from the same spot, not at an organized range. Mark | |||
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I'm thinking possibly build it to suit the shortest person who is likely to use it....and just increase height as necessary by adding sandbags/spacers. What do you think? _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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May I suggest an tall, adjustable camera tripod as the basis for your high rest. A plywood top can serve as the platform for the sandbag rest. George  | |||
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Very interesting suggestion George!! Keep em' coming guys. _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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I use two sets of shooting sticks as a standing rest for sighting in my doubles. Obviously one in the traditional manner for the fore-arm. The second, I use to steady my trigger hand elbow. Works like a charm to give a good solid rest while at the same time not interfering with the recoil arc of the rifle. | |||
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I use Milk Crates with a sand bag or two in them. (I hope you have milk crates in the US). This also allows you to steady yourself by pushing your stomach / thigh against something which has always helped me. And as others have said, something to allow you to rest your forearm against. Previously 500N with many thousands of posts ! | |||
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Colin used a suspended rope for the two bore double sight it. See his videos. 577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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What George said. I had a buddy make this for me. It's a thin aluminum plate with a thicker piece in the middle. 1/4x20 hole in the middle with a Bogen quick connect camera mount. I haven't used it yet. Manfrotto 190xb with 486rc2 head. I'd take it to the range but not to hunt off of unless it was in a blind.   Max height is chin level and I'm 6'1". 
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I have used a folding ladder, with good results. It is a simple fiberglass frame , with metal steps, I put a towel on the flat step. It is easy to try but I like George's method better to get the exact height needed. Good luck | |||
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Todd, thanks for that suggestion. Very smart, I will try that. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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You could always build this which is what I did but made it single sided for a right handed shooter. Having a second set of legs to raise the height for a standing rest is a simple matter.   | |||
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I use a tripod with a nice leather covered bag on top for patterning shotguns. You can't 'lean into it' but it seems to work ok for supporting the left hand. May have to try a small plywood platform to support the bag, good idea. C.G.B. | |||
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I made some modifications to my shooting bench to make it a "stand-up" bench for firing my big bore rifles. I am up in Alaska at the moment guiding and don't have access to the images, however, I posted information on this awhile back on the Alaska Outdoor Forum. I think if you access this url you can see pretty much what I did. I think the bench works great. The only modifications that I would make in the future would be to make the longer legs adjustable for different heigh shooters. http://forums.outdoorsdirector...ing-Bench?highlight= | |||
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...bedded&v=1roM8Ek0Aag This is my new(about a month old) shooting bench w/ standing rest, if you skip ahead to 2:05 you can see how it works. The sling across the two posts is set for me but removing a couple screws allows it to be easily repositioned. HTH Colin | |||
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If you have a place where you can leave it set up, one of the "standing desks" would be perfect. I have a walking desk in my office that is a standing desk with a treadmill hooked up to it. (I walk 4-8 miles a day while on conference calls and answering emails.) Another good idea could be a couple of saw horses with a counter top bolted to it. | |||
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If you are going to use it on your property and don't need to move it a mailbox post would work. Cut the top part off and screw a U shaped tool holder in it. Lay a sandbag at the rear and shoot down it longways. If it needs slight adjustment for different shooters screw the U holder up or down and use different size sandbags for the rear. | |||
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A Lead Sled for initial sighting and then shooting sticks for practice has worked well for me. NRA Life Benefactor Member, DRSS, DWWC, Whittington Center,Android Reloading Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/ | |||
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Go to www.wcranch.com Look at the range pics. They have very good standing bench rests | |||
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Wade, see page 185 of Graeme Wright's "Shooting the British Double Rifle, 3rd Edition" for a photo of Holland and Holland's upright test bench. If you don't have the book, PM me your e-mail and I will send a scan. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Eland Slayer: I don't know how to post pics here but if you'll PM me I will take a photo of the combo standing and seated rest I built and use at my home shooting range. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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I had an old adjustable camera platform I used for rest. Had one wheel on the side to adjust height/ Platforn was foot wide and 4 ft long. Real old made mainly from wood.I could stand up straight and shoot.Ed MZEE WA SIKU | |||
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I clamp two boards to the 4x4's at the range. Not field applicable, but helps with sighting in and load testing. The board on the side greatly increases your stability. Adjust the height of the boards until you are in your normal stance. Lean forward and sideways a bit into the boards.    | |||
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I have had good results with taking a camera tripod and mounting a sand bag on it. I adjust it so that I can shoot from a sitting position, using the my knee as a rest for my right elbow. works well, doesn't interfere with recoil at all, is cheap, light and very easy to set up and take down. If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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Here is a link for a do it your self tripod style stool. By making the legs longer to your needs and the top area shorter to support a rifle a shooting rest could be built. http://www.designsponge.com/20...d-camping-stool.html | |||
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