Corey, if you want to save money - take your old blue jeans and cut the legs out of them. Cut different lengths of the legs for different sized bags. Sew up one end completely and leave a fill hole in the other. Fill with sand or beans or rice or ??- don't stuff them tight - then close them up. You can use those varying sized bags to achieve a more comfortable and solid rest. Positioning the bags at the butt can also be useful in absorbing recoil. Put some padding on your shoulder and see if that helps also.
On thing you need to consider is the heigth of your shooting bench and stool. Whatever you're sitting on should be high enough that your lower legsgo straight down from your knee with your feet flat on the ground. The bench should be high enough so that when you address the gun your back is nearly straight - not hunched over. If you're shooting from a set-up that requires you the bend down a lot to the gun, you will be amazed at what a more upright position will do for you.
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I am thinking of making one that fits me better, I seem too picky when it comes to this.
as for recoil, my apex and disc extreme both have great recoil pads on them, hell an 100grs of triple 7 pushing an 350gr FPB felt likea 7.62x39 round outof a modded sks.
my sidelocks worry me more on recoil,
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Knight usak and 50 disc orginal
win apex 45cal
cva wolf
sidelocks
cva hawken 50cal and from parts 54cal
cva plainsman 50cal flintlock
stone mountain 50cal silver eagle
rimfire
Ruger 96/22lr, Mossberg 715t 22lr
CF
mosin nagant 91/30, and fig 9mm
On thing you need to consider is the heigth of your shooting bench and stool. Whatever you're sitting on should be high enough that your lower legsgo straight down from your knee with your feet flat on the ground. The bench should be high enough so that when you address the gun your back is nearly straight - not hunched over. If you're shooting from a set-up that requires you the bend down a lot to the gun, you will be amazed at what a more upright position will do for you.
set all the way down, table hits my belly, I stratle the set, like I would if I standing. problem, the bags are still too low.
I have some 1in boards that I may try on the shoot and see to do my adjustments on the mtm, I think it is there adjustment screw that makes unstable. I have some cut for my bags any way.
fg, 65 lbs, sheesh, I am tring to save my back not hurt it more.
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inlines
Knight usak and 50 disc orginal
win apex 45cal
cva wolf
sidelocks
cva hawken 50cal and from parts 54cal
cva plainsman 50cal flintlock
stone mountain 50cal silver eagle
rimfire
Ruger 96/22lr, Mossberg 715t 22lr
CF
mosin nagant 91/30, and fig 9mm
If your table is real low.. in the mean time take a cardboard box as high as you need. Cut a V in opposite sides and rest the rifle in there. I used to also put some weight in the box. Or build one that will raise your shooting level out of wood. Then a few sand bags and you should be set.
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