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Posted: 9/14/2011 5:31:31 AM EDT
| I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but what do you guys use for a gun rest when you're sighting in a new rifle? |
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If it is a varmint rifle or other rifle I will use off a bi-pod, then I use the bi-pod to zero it with a bag under the buttstock. If it is a rifle I will shoot off a field expedient rest, off shooting sticks, from a prone supported position or from another supported position, then I'll zero it with a bang under my hand and mother under the butt stock. I am not a believer in things like lead sleds as you run the risk of altering how the rifle will recoil and/or how you fire the weapon in range versus field conditions. Frankly if you can't shoot well without one, any improved grouping won't matter, and any increased accuracy you gain in terms of a more accurate determination of Mean point of aim and zero will be lost in the noise of the variance caused by shooting without one in the field. When I shot national match, I zeroed in a prone position with no rest and heavy sling pressure and then applied predetermined sight corrections as needed for sitting and offhand positions. –––––– My preferred method of bore sighting is to place a light about 100m away and then center it in the bore with the rifle secured to a rest - either on bags on a table or Bench or taped to a video tripod (which works really well if you bind it to the tripod at the balance point of the rifle). When the light is centered you get concentric rings in the bore. Once centered you just adjust the crosshairs to intersect the light and reconfirm the barrel has not moved. That approach usually gets me with 2" of the point of aim on the target. |
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A large sock stuffed tight with small beads, then doubled over and tied off with two zip ties. Then a strip of excess fabric stretched over the center with two pieces of shock cord wrapped around in case I want to rest my rest on something else.
Same for the rear. If I can go prone then my bag up front and rest on the back. Some of those rifle rests are ridiculously overkill |
| I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. |
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Dude! Are you my long-lost twin brother? I did exactly the same thing. Jack was off a Ford Econoline van if I recall correctly. I welded a small sprocket on the shaft and ground the teeth mostly off it make a hand knob for raising and lowering it. I shoot it from a bench with that under the forend with the adjustment knob to my left and a rabbit-ear bag under the rear stock, squeezing that one with my left hand for very fine vertical adjustment. (I shoot right-handed.) |
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Pics would be great. I'd be interested in doing something like this myself. |
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Dude! Are you my long-lost twin brother? I did exactly the same thing. Jack was off a Ford Econoline van if I recall correctly. I welded a small sprocket on the shaft and ground the teeth mostly off it make a hand knob for raising and lowering it. I shoot it from a bench with that under the forend with the adjustment knob to my left and a rabbit-ear bag under the rear stock, squeezing that one with my left hand for very fine vertical adjustment. (I shoot right-handed.) I get alot of shit about that stand but it works great. Sounds like you got fancy with yours. After using mine for a bit I need to change some things. I want to permately attach a rifle rest to the plate and then cut the legs off and weld them back on off-set to help with stabalizing it a bit better. Quoted:
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Pics would be great. I'd be interested in doing something like this myself. Sure thing. I'll try to take pictures of it tomarrow. |
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Dude! Are you my long-lost twin brother? I did exactly the same thing. Jack was off a Ford Econoline van if I recall correctly. I welded a small sprocket on the shaft and ground the teeth mostly off it make a hand knob for raising and lowering it. I shoot it from a bench with that under the forend with the adjustment knob to my left and a rabbit-ear bag under the rear stock, squeezing that one with my left hand for very fine vertical adjustment. (I shoot right-handed.) I get alot of shit about that stand but it works great. Sounds like you got fancy with yours. After using mine for a bit I need to change some things. I want to permately attach a rifle rest to the plate and then cut the legs off and weld them back on off-set to help with stabalizing it a bit better. Quoted:
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Pics would be great. I'd be interested in doing something like this myself. Sure thing. I'll try to take pictures of it tomarrow. that's pretty brilliant actually, and is by far the best use i can think of for a scissor jack since they are a tremendous pain in the ass when used for anything that even resembles lifting a vehicle of any kind up off the ground... The only think they have going for them is their size and relatively light weight which is exactly what matter here..im definitely in for pics of your setup as well. |
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Dude! Are you my long-lost twin brother? I did exactly the same thing. Jack was off a Ford Econoline van if I recall correctly. I welded a small sprocket on the shaft and ground the teeth mostly off it make a hand knob for raising and lowering it. I shoot it from a bench with that under the forend with the adjustment knob to my left and a rabbit-ear bag under the rear stock, squeezing that one with my left hand for very fine vertical adjustment. (I shoot right-handed.) I get alot of shit about that stand but it works great. Sounds like you got fancy with yours. After using mine for a bit I need to change some things. I want to permately attach a rifle rest to the plate and then cut the legs off and weld them back on off-set to help with stabalizing it a bit better. Quoted:
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I had a old scissor jack laying around. So I glass beaded it, welded on a 4x4 piece of 1/4 inch steel plate, two legs and a handle to crank it up and down. Then I painted it all black and greased the screw on it. Put two sandbags on the legs and one on top the steel plate to rest your rifle on and it's pretty solid. The best part is it costs me a total of $0.00 to build including the scissor jack and sandbags. Pics would be great. I'd be interested in doing something like this myself. Sure thing. I'll try to take pictures of it tomarrow. that's pretty brilliant actually, and is by far the best use i can think of for a scissor jack since they are a tremendous pain in the ass when used for anything that even resembles lifting a vehicle of any kind up off the ground... The only think they have going for them is their size and relatively light weight which is exactly what matter here..im definitely in for pics of your setup as well. pics??? |
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