Lots of discussion about using a lead sled. Brings up the question of building a portable stand up shooting rest for the larger double rifles.

Anyone built one, bought one, seen one, or have plans for one?

caldwell magnum dead shot

+1 for the Caldwell as Sam suggests.

What size doubles has anyone used on it? Very intriguing.

I've shot my 577 off it. Great for testing regulation. I think its the best standing rest I've used for practice. Too big for hunting. Its made like a surveyors tripod.

Gents:
Here is my standing rest at my home in Alaska. The uprights are drilled to accept dowels and the rest sits on them so it is adjustable for height. The 2x6 upright at the rear is for my right elbow to rest on for added stability. As a right handed shooter the cut out on the table give me room for both standing and seated shooting. However, I use the rest to develop an accurate load in whatever double I am shooting. When that is established I only shoot offhand, from sticks, or a portable tripod--i.e. only what I may have available in the field, bush, or tundra.
If anyone is interested, I can supply dimensions after I return from Dallas. I built it out of scrap wood and it has worked well for 7 years.
Cheers,
Cal

That rest looks lonely and cold in the last picture!

I created a portable stand. It was nothing special due to my craftsmanship or lack there of, but I think the design had merit. I had an H pattern floor of 2x4s with steel bracketing coming up perpendicular to the H pattern. There was a cross piece in the bracketing to rest the rifle on made from another piece of steel with a 1x4 bolted on top for a nicer platform to rest on. The whole contraption was then C clamped on the shooting bench. Frostbit has it, so perhaps he'll chime in with a picture.

Brett

I heard Frostbit sold it and that is how he paid for the Lawn and Alder.
I won't say who he sold it to, but Shootaway will have better targets in the future.
Cal

There is a good standing rest at one of the local ranges in Houston. I will try to describe it with apologies in advance for using words instead of a picture since I do not have one.

Someone took a tire rim and welded a segment of metal pipe about 3-4' tall to the center of it. Then they drilled two holes in the pipe and welded nuts over each hole. They made T handles with rebar being the top of the T and a piece of threaded bolt stock matching the nut's thread being the base of the T. Inside the pipe they placed a smaller diameter pipe that would slide in and out of the larger diameter pipe welded to tire rim. The two threaded T handles were used to tighten and loosen the inside pipe allowing it to move up and down for height adjustment. On top of the smaller pipe they welded a "shelf" that was about 24" long and 6" wide. On this shelf they affixed a piece of 2x6 and then put a piece of foam on top and covered it all. Worked very nicely.

I realized about half way through this that my description was sort of like trying to do a set of step-by-step brain surgery instructions but I was committed at that point and had to finish.

Actually, I've found that the rear corner of the bed rail / tailgate (in the "up" position) of my Dodge 2500 4WD, 4" lifted pickup makes a great stand up rest when angled at 45 degrees to the target, and a single hunting jacket folded over twice across the bed rail and tailgate! Add a set of shooting sticks under the floating elbow and you're rock solid!

And, it's completely portable!

That's why they made cameras!
For those of us to be able to show what we mean instead of describe it.

Very good stuff, Gents - much appreciated. I like the wooden frame from Cal Pappas, the one with the dowels so that it's adjustable. And the 2x6 upright for the right hand elbow. That's the part that really helps for a stable sight picture. Then you touch it off and realize why you're only enjoying this in small doses.

Cheapest, quickest, easiest is the way Holland's do it. A post in the ground that looks like a figure 4.

The shooter STANDING here at X with the slope of the figure 4 being his rest. So x4 if you like.

Leather padding or somesuch is optional. You just lean into the thing and test fire. I recall seeing Holland's at Northwood when I had a gun fitting there some twenty years or so ago.