Posted: 5/30/2015 6:35:47 PM EDT
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Looking to get one for my bolt gun. Needs to be a rail mount. I'm currently using a Harris BRM-s up front.
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monopods suck. save your money. get a decent rear bag, or better, an assortment of them Bingo. I make my own rear bags with socks and poly pellets from an arts and crafts store or internet. They are what the commercial bags use but the commercial bags always overfill them. |
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If your going to get one...
http://www.accu-shot.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=63 Like every thing else, they have their place. |
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Just curious, specifically what don't you like about them? What rear bags do you prefer? they have very solid support in one direction (up and down) as long as you're on hard surface. they will drive you crazy on soft surface. but worse, they have very poor support laterally compared to a bag, which means most people shoot horizontally strung groups with them and push the rifle to the side with their cheek weld. i'm not knocking accushot. they make good stuff. it's just not as good as a simple bag. |
Not a big fan of rear monopods. I stick with the rear bag idea but being a cheap (yet practical) bastard, I went with an old sock half filled with rice. Works just as well as a bag filled with sand, packing peanuts or any other kind of media with an added benefit, I figure I get hungry and all else fails, I can boil and eat my rear bag rest.
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Only problem with a sock filled with any edible stuff be it beans or rice is that if you get it wet you have a bag of mush and it also attracts pests. Yes you can put them in a plastic bag to stay dry but it takes away from the feel when using and pests don't care about plastic so they will still get at it. I am a cheap bastard myself and it's one of the reasons I make my own but I know when spending $5 on a bag of poly pellets is a better option. They can get wet and dry right out and won't attract rodents. No you can't eat them but I will play those odds that I won't be stuck out in the wilderness and have to eat my rear bag 
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As others have said the monopod is better than nothing at all, but a rear bag is a great deal more useful and easier to deploy. Off a bench its ok, but on soft ground shooting prone it will settle quickl y and require constant adjustment. Make your own to start to find out what you like. Im using one of these currently. |
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they have very solid support in one direction (up and down) as long as you're on hard surface. they will drive you crazy on soft surface. but worse, they have very poor support laterally compared to a bag, which means most people shoot horizontally strung groups with them and push the rifle to the side with their cheek weld. i'm not knocking accushot. they make good stuff. it's just not as good as a simple bag. Quoted:
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Just curious, specifically what don't you like about them? What rear bags do you prefer? they have very solid support in one direction (up and down) as long as you're on hard surface. they will drive you crazy on soft surface. but worse, they have very poor support laterally compared to a bag, which means most people shoot horizontally strung groups with them and push the rifle to the side with their cheek weld. i'm not knocking accushot. they make good stuff. it's just not as good as a simple bag. on a tangent, does anybody know how in this post above by me, the word "rifle" got hyperlinked to a cabelas advertisement? I certainly didn't do that. when i refresh teh page over and over, sometimes it shows up as plain text and other times it shows up hyperlinked. i certainly hope ar15 isn't playing with that sort of advertising. |
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Only problem with a sock filled with any edible stuff be it beans or rice is that if you get it wet you have a bag of mush and it also attracts pests. Yes you can put them in a plastic bag to stay dry but it takes away from the feel when using and pests don't care about plastic so they will still get at it. I am a cheap bastard myself and it's one of the reasons I make my own but I know when spending $5 on a bag of poly pellets is a better option. They can get wet and dry right out and won't attract rodents. No you can't eat them but I will play those odds that I won't be stuck out in the wilderness and have to eat my rear bag Fill it with airsoft pellets Txl |
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Fill it with airsoft pellets Txl Quoted:
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Only problem with a sock filled with any edible stuff be it beans or rice is that if you get it wet you have a bag of mush and it also attracts pests. Yes you can put them in a plastic bag to stay dry but it takes away from the feel when using and pests don't care about plastic so they will still get at it. I am a cheap bastard myself and it's one of the reasons I make my own but I know when spending $5 on a bag of poly pellets is a better option. They can get wet and dry right out and won't attract rodents. No you can't eat them but I will play those odds that I won't be stuck out in the wilderness and have to eat my rear bag Fill it with airsoft pellets Txl Poly pellets are smaller and form better. That's why all the commercial bags use them. |
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Not a big fan of rear monopods. I stick with the rear bag idea but being a cheap (yet practical) bastard, I went with an old sock half filled with rice. Works just as well as a bag filled with sand, packing peanuts or any other kind of media with an added benefit, I figure I get hungry and all else fails, I can boil and eat my rear bag rest. I like your way of thinking I used beans! |