#242 Mountaineer @ the Farm

sabotloader · 01-13-2012, 06:40 PM

I had a couple of hours early this afternoon and I decide the best use of the time would be to go to the farm and get some shooting with ole #242.

It was frozen and still right @ 32* when I go to the farm. I was somewhat disappointed that there was not snow, but at least there was no mud.

One of the reason for going to the farm was try my new front rest. Some that know me no how really cheap I am... so when Idecided to give up on sand bags for my front rest... a few suggested the Rock Deluxe... when I went to by it a Sportsman the price gouged me a little bit when I could a Rock Junior for about half price... and after all what is the difference? So I bought Junior. After my last trip I decided I was going to get the 'real Rock' I went on line and I be darned if Amazon did not have it for $67 and free shipping to boot because Terry does so much e-shopping there.

I got here the other day - I assemmbled it and have been itching to go shoot from it. The time was today.

When I got the the farm I setup 6 birds at 100 yards and started using the rest. I really like it... it is really stable. Well after the second set of 6 birds at 100 I was really feeling I had a handle on the new rest. And a 100 yards was getting really boring!

I posted a paper target and grabbed four birds and the range finder. Walked everything out to 150 yards and set up the birds and the target.

I shot the target first to see where I the shots might be going, not a the start of a real good group, but it did show me what I thought I need to know. I was pretty happy with the results and after the second shot decided to move to the birds - they are much more fun to shoot.

Got my four shots off at the birds ended up with all four birds broken. Even with ear plugs in I could here the distinct 'click' of the bullet hitting the clay birds. I held the center Xhair right on the bottom center of the bird and touched the gun off.

This set of pictures is sort of a round up of the days events. I took a individual picture of each hit bird and from my view I had had solid hits on each bird. From the remains of one bird it looks like I might have been just a bit to the right of center.

quake · 01-13-2012, 08:03 PM

Sabotloader, what was wrong with the Rock Junior that made you get the Deluxe version? I have been thinking about getting one of these for a while now, but I keep putting it off.

sabotloader · 01-13-2012, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by quake

Sabotloader, what was wrong with the Rock Junior that made you get the Deluxe version? I have been thinking about getting one of these for a while now, but I keep putting it off.

You know if the truth be know probably nothing wrong with the junior rock other than my own mind... Last week when shooting a group in the rock pit I pulled one shot a little bit to the right.... I had to be the junior's fault so I got a better one...

Terry did not buy my argument to much either, but i convinced her to get it for me from Amazon on her card...

MountainDevil54 · 01-13-2012, 08:33 PM

I'd like to see a better pic of the new rest if you could post one.

quake · 01-13-2012, 08:35 PM

Hahaha, o.k. I'm not sure I have seen the Junior version. I would imagine if the Deluxe is bigger/wider, then it must be a little more stable on the bench as well. Thanks.

onetohunt · 01-13-2012, 09:03 PM

Good shooting SL!

cayugad · 01-14-2012, 05:16 AM

Very good shooting. I would guess if I went to a better rest I probably would tighten my groups, but I hate to have the rest do all the work.

ronlaughlin · 01-14-2012, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by cayugad

Very good shooting. I would guess if I went to a better rest I probably would tighten my groups, but I hate to have the rest do all the work.

Yup, i agree.

bronko22000 · 01-14-2012, 06:36 AM

Good shooting SL. I think more important than the rest is a solid table. My rest itself is an an TM adjustable tripod for the forearm which I add a sand bag. For the rear, I use 4 sandbags that I use to adjust the elevation in conjunction with the front to get a comfortable shooting height. I usually shoot pretty well off of it. I carry everything in a 5 gallon plastic bucket that I use as my shooting seat.

sabotloader · 01-14-2012, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by bronko22000

Good shooting SL. I think more important than the rest is a solid table. My rest itself is an an TM adjustable tripod for the forearm which I add a sand bag. For the rear, I use 4 sandbags that I use to adjust the elevation in conjunction with the front to get a comfortable shooting height. I usually shoot pretty well off of it. I carry everything in a 5 gallon plastic bucket that I use as my shooting seat.

Well that's another problem... my bench is a portable fold up bench and it is a long ways from stable and getting worse with age, but since I shoot in many different places it will have to work.

This is the bench I use...