Tried my sled idea at Raton a few weeks ago. Twelve inch patterns. Back to the drawing board.

Here's my Hoch space gun forestock. Looks bad, shoots good. There is a solid aluminium hanger attached to the action. Reminds me of a coffin. It's the only rifle I rest on the forestock.

What a co-nky-dink. I just got back from the range where I shot two of my rifles with large flat bottom forends.  First up is Fat Boy AKA The Grey Rat.  He features a 26" heavy 1.2"+ 16 twist Bresien barrel in 32-40 and Zettler DST Triggers. A classic BPJACK parts gun, all the components came from different sources. The forend is a bit too long in my estimation.  The black tape indicates the current position on my front bag.  It has never shot that well until today when I tried a Lyman 319289 'Hudson' bullet at 200 yds.  And yes, the barrel needs some serious refinishing.

Here is my two;

Hoch has two 3/8 rods into a block on the face of the action, then captured by 5/16" bolts in the front of the forearm.

Borchardt has the forearm mounted to a piece attached to the bottom of the barrel either forearm touch the barrel, at all.

You feel better about your big ugly stock now, don't you Bob?