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Schuetzendave
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Re: Shooting rest
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Cuslog - when we met at Ron's were you the fellow with the High Wall with the nicely drawn and filed and polished octagon stainless steel RKS barrel? It had great sharp corners.
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Re: Shooting rest
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Yes, that was me !
Since then, built my own rifling machine / making my own barrels.
Still learning though, not yet as good as Ron's.
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Are you making straight twist or have you copied the Pope/Ron Smith gain twist rifling technique?
Do you have a deep depth boring machine?
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Just straight twist for now. Machine I built will deep hole drill, ream and cut rifling. Bores I'm getting I'm pretty happy with, grooves - not so much - look a bit "scratchy". Probably just cutter sharpening technique or maybe the material. I'm still playing around in 4140 chromoly, haven't tried 416R yet.
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Re: Shooting rest
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Just a follow-up. After reading the responses, I went out to the shop and built one, based loosely on the photo from Schuetzendave. Built from off cuts / scraps left over from other projects. (Obviously, bought the bags.) Still need to pick up a couple of thumb knobs. A bit taller than some others - trying to sit a bit more erect at the bench - seems to help with the recoil from a 45/70 with a crescent butt plate.
Something to start with anyway, may build another some day - after discovering the shortcomings of this one.
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Re: Shooting rest
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That'd very nice,
cuslog
, and I'd never guess it was made from "scraps".
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With different rifle stock configurations or having to shoot a distance uphill I have found you can run out of elevation adjustment.
So I make a couple of sets of screws for the tripod feet that allows me to obtain the additional elevation that my bench rest requires.
I need the long ones to shoot uphill at the Stars & Stripes Schuetzen Range at Nine Mile Falls, WA.
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Nice job and it should work well for your own personal needs.
" It Is Better To Now Have Been A Has Been Than A Never Was Or A Wanna Be "
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Re: Shooting rest
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Schuetzendave wrote
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With different rifle stock configurations or having to shoot a distance uphill I have found you can run out of elevation adjustment.
So I make a couple of sets of screws for the tripod feet that allows me to obtain the additional elevation that my bench rest requires.
I need the long ones to shoot uphill at the Stars & Stripes Schuetzen Range at Nine Mile Falls, WA.
Tried it out last week before paint - at a relatively flat range, I was pretty much bottomed out and it worked OK - 5 or so inches of vertical adjustment left for those uphill ranges - and 2" L/R for those sidehill ones.
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Re: Shooting rest
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I really Hate the "spiked" screw feet that will destroy nicely
made bench tops.
I use rubber cane tips to cover the spikes on my Caldwell
Bench Rest. I think just as good as the spikes digging into the wood bench tops
beltfed/arnie
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All the ranges I shoot at have cement tops and the feet do not cause any damage to them.
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Re: Shooting rest
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Ha !
Kinda off topic but:
I've had bloody elbows from shooting my 45/70 with 535 gr. / 67gr BP loads. Recoil so fierce my elbows were skidding on the rubber bench tops. Looked down and wondered where the heck the blood was coming from.
Next rifle will be a 38-55 or maybe even 32-40 and lighter bullets !
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Cuslog,
That is why I wear elbow pads when shooting the larger calibers off the bench, including BPCR and also more heavy recoiling modern rifles
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Will, do you sell your rests? If so do you have additional info?
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Re: Shooting rest
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"Old Ugly" Built in 1990.A friend built two of them,can change out cradles,side adjust,plenty of elevation. I have a Randle Rest also...
May the Bullet Gods be with you.......
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