Post by Foggy on May 1, 2019 20:43:35 GMT -6
I got to know a guy down here that is a good shooter. He and his wife are taking most of the ribbons and trophies at the PC Gun Club events. I have not really done much shooting since selling my biz back in '05. We been talking and he called me today wondering about what kinda front and rear rests to use in bench rest shooting. Kinda lit my fire.
I explained to him that I have a Hart cast steel front pedestal with three screw adjusted corners and a built in level to get things plumb....attop this I have a height and windage adjustable Sinclair bag mount...with roller bearings no less....and a custom made leather bag to fit the fore-stock on my rifle. The sides can be regulated to allow more or less tension to the fore-stock via some finger adjustable screws. Then I use a little baby powder to keep the friction down.....and set the gun atop this affair. At the back I have a leather doughnut filled with granite sand.....and atop that is a double thick bunny ear rear bag that again sports a bit of baby powder and is again filled with heavy sand. The gun fits into these bags....and will pretty much drift straight backwards upon touching the trigger. The stock and bag combo is made so that the effects of recoil are pretty much eliminated.
When I shot....I shot mostly "free recoil" which means you dont touch anything but the trigger and allow the weight of the gun and the bags to absorb the recoil. The only thing that touches the gun is the pad on my trigger finger....and that trigger was 2 ounces of let off.....barely peceptibable to most folks. After firing....just push the gun back to where is was and align the sights and watch the wind flags for your next shot.
My bench gun is a Stolle Aluminum Action with steel inserts and a fluted bolt to reduce weight. Everything but the barrel is light weight. 6MM PPC chamber cut into a Broughton three groove barrel, with Jewell trigger and scope rings, and a 36x Luepold scope. All set in a metal flake McMillan glass, glue-in, stock which was smithed by Dan Dowling and painted red metal flake by Tom Merideth. The gun is a switch barrel affair which allows me to shoot light varmint and heavy varmint via a weight add/remove trick and barrel swap...via custom tools. Pretty nice kit.....AND I HAVE NOT FIRED THIS GUN IN 15 YEARS. The gun and my loads are /were capable of "screamer groups".....which are five shot "groups" that measure under .100" in deviation. Remarkable stuff then....and now....I think.
I have all the custom made hand dies and reloading tools and gear to compete on a national level.....back in '05. I think I still have 40,000 primers stored in my basement....Enough to keep me in ammo for a few years....
. I may have enough bullets and powder to start a small revolution. Also have a good supply of new Lapua 6PPC brass. I just mostly stopped all interests when I sold my biz.....and feel like a bit of a dinosaur at this point. I'm sure many things have changed.....and many remain similar to my time in the biz.
So....now I got my wheels turning and my juices flowing a bit.....and figure I need to haul all this crap I have accumulated down to OZ next fall and get with the program here. Kinda excited to do some serious shooting again.
. Maybe I just need a shooting partner again? I think I will check in at the precision shooting website and see if I remember any of those guys. Maybe somebody has developed a solar powered case trimmer or something. .
In other shooting news.....I did hit a 77 in golf the other day. So hard to be humble..
I explained to him that I have a Hart cast steel front pedestal with three screw adjusted corners and a built in level to get things plumb....attop this I have a height and windage adjustable Sinclair bag mount...with roller bearings no less....and a custom made leather bag to fit the fore-stock on my rifle. The sides can be regulated to allow more or less tension to the fore-stock via some finger adjustable screws. Then I use a little baby powder to keep the friction down.....and set the gun atop this affair. At the back I have a leather doughnut filled with granite sand.....and atop that is a double thick bunny ear rear bag that again sports a bit of baby powder and is again filled with heavy sand. The gun fits into these bags....and will pretty much drift straight backwards upon touching the trigger. The stock and bag combo is made so that the effects of recoil are pretty much eliminated.
When I shot....I shot mostly "free recoil" which means you dont touch anything but the trigger and allow the weight of the gun and the bags to absorb the recoil. The only thing that touches the gun is the pad on my trigger finger....and that trigger was 2 ounces of let off.....barely peceptibable to most folks. After firing....just push the gun back to where is was and align the sights and watch the wind flags for your next shot.
My bench gun is a Stolle Aluminum Action with steel inserts and a fluted bolt to reduce weight. Everything but the barrel is light weight. 6MM PPC chamber cut into a Broughton three groove barrel, with Jewell trigger and scope rings, and a 36x Luepold scope. All set in a metal flake McMillan glass, glue-in, stock which was smithed by Dan Dowling and painted red metal flake by Tom Merideth. The gun is a switch barrel affair which allows me to shoot light varmint and heavy varmint via a weight add/remove trick and barrel swap...via custom tools. Pretty nice kit.....AND I HAVE NOT FIRED THIS GUN IN 15 YEARS. The gun and my loads are /were capable of "screamer groups".....which are five shot "groups" that measure under .100" in deviation. Remarkable stuff then....and now....I think.
I have all the custom made hand dies and reloading tools and gear to compete on a national level.....back in '05. I think I still have 40,000 primers stored in my basement....Enough to keep me in ammo for a few years....
. I may have enough bullets and powder to start a small revolution. Also have a good supply of new Lapua 6PPC brass. I just mostly stopped all interests when I sold my biz.....and feel like a bit of a dinosaur at this point. I'm sure many things have changed.....and many remain similar to my time in the biz. So....now I got my wheels turning and my juices flowing a bit.....and figure I need to haul all this crap I have accumulated down to OZ next fall and get with the program here. Kinda excited to do some serious shooting again.
. Maybe I just need a shooting partner again? I think I will check in at the precision shooting website and see if I remember any of those guys. Maybe somebody has developed a solar powered case trimmer or something. . In other shooting news.....I did hit a 77 in golf the other day. So hard to be humble.
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