Who sells palm rests besides Montana Arm and CPA? 

thanks van

I've purchased both of the Jeff's Oufitters palm rests, and both are well made, but the tuning fork Win. style is not a good choice as is. It is extremely long, and has no adjustment to shorten it. The other door knob style he has is a great one though!

Van
Neal Rice makes one of the best palm rests available. I've been using one for some years. You can see how it looks on page 99 of Loading and Shooting Traditional Schuetzen Rifles, A Beginner's Guide (available form the ASSRA at the top of the For Sale/Trade page). Shoot me an email and I'll send you Neal's phone number. He may not have his shop completely up and running but I believe he is doing gunsmithing work.

I have not been around a rifle with a palm rest! Do the palm rests really 
do the job for support? 

thanks Randy

 What Boats says is spot on. I have used several different palm rest over the years, but there is one thing about palm rests that bothers me.

 Personally I don't use a palm rest anymore as my elbow doesn't come anywhere near resting on my hip bone unless I bend over farther than the old body will tolerate.  

 Do an experiment....... Take a short, say 2", stick and hold it between your thumb and fore finger. Notice the movement of the end of the stick. Now take a stick 6" long and notice the movement. If you're like me there is a lot more movement with the longer stick.

 Seems to me if you add an extra 6" or so of a palm rest to the distance from your hip to the bottom of the fore arm you will get more movement than without it. I don't know about you guys but there's more than enuf movement without the palm rest than I like.

 Also, all the pictures I see of modern offhand shooters show them using the heel of their hand, the "V" between thumb and forefinger, or at the very most their finger tips. To me this would make a lot more sense as you cut the distance down as far as possible.

PETE

Pete,

I use thumb and forefinger as well as the glove reverse hand 'V" rest.  But on rifles in matches were the rules dictate what you can use.   

Thumb and forefinger on Silhouette rifles that don't allow hook buttplates or gloves, Balance on those guns is about or just forward of the trigger guard. And have my thumb on the guard. That position relies heavily on cheek pressure and having the guns butt in a shoulder "pocket"  It's the best way to shoot a silhouette rifle, look down the line at a match and it's the one you see most often.

I don't have a modern over the course rifle however my old match 03 and the M1's I used to shoot hold the rifle with a shooting glove and reverse "V" hand position. Elbow is close to my body and with a sticky elbow pad on the shooting coat it sort of sticks to the front of the coat. It's not on my hip.  Again it's a function of the rules.  That position is pretty universal for high power shooters even today. 10 M airguners use this one too. Again with a coat and glove.

What works for an individual is what is best for them. Many guys that came up in one discipline or another will favor the position they know and trust. Schuetzens under our rules are essentially "free" rifles, you can shoot about anything you want and see wide variety on the line.  I don't know that one positon is any better than another.

Boats