Yet another rabbit hole I fell down...
A shooting game some locals have been playing for the last few months, again, has been shooting bottle caps - modeled after the 1920's and the galleries.  We've been constantly evolving our processes from the measuring devices, to the card stock discs, to frames we use to hold the discs. It's still a 22rf game and shooting indoors at 50' offers enough of a challenge it hasn't moved outside.  The make of rifle, the barrel, the ammunition, optics all play huge roles in the outcome.  Lately, having spent considerable time, money and energy on these components, I fell down the slippery slope of rests.
While shooting these discs, a move from disc to disc offers challenges much like shooting the rf BR target.  It involves repositioning yourself after each shot.  The original discs are 1.6" diameter so a shift of at least that amount is required between each shot, be it vertical or horizontal, with 13 moves required to shoot a card, should be easy right?  The discs after being shot are measured on a device that includes a dial indicator that measures the distance from center in thousandths of an inch... 
The slippery slope I fell down recently was in the rests.  I went from the simple block of wood with a sandbag, to a Hoppes rest, a Hart, a Sinclair, Bald Eagle, and then the Seb rest caught my eye, the concept of a handle that allowed a rotation form of motion was intriguing.  Maybe not to that expense though, call me somewhat conservative... I settled for Seb's son's new rest, the AR250.  In the bottle cap game it works well and with some time on grade it's working for me.  I have found the learning curve of it's operation for this redneck to be quite steep when the shooting distance increased - that distance being in excess of 100 yards.  I've been given advice by several fellow shooters and I've experimented with various counterweights but my patience runs thin down some of these avenues.   
Another discipline I participate in involves rest shooting at 50, 100 and 200 yards, most here know that well.  Following my struggles with the AR 250, I found the compact size of this rest very convenient - it fit in my Bullseye shooters box that contains the rest of my goodies.  The hunt began for a simple rest that would fit the box and my needs.  I settled on the slingshot shaped, cast iron, Bald Eagle rest - dimensionally it fit in the box, but it needed a few changes.  Here's a couple pics along with some bling.
GT

Is there no end to your interests? I hope not! 

Greg,I really like the Randoulph adjustable top they make. It makes it quick and easy to adjust for most any forearm fit. JMO

Love the Bling

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Chuckster, that is a very clever (and compact!) rest. Bravo.

I really like your compact front rest Chuck!

A beautiful work of useful art Chuckster, I think it was B Square that at one time long ago, made a front rest similar in thought to yours, but fell far short of yours in execution. Long ago I gave it to my son and he still uses it to this day.