As with most things, I built the bench rest myself. The table is made from left overs of an old deck project. The legs are 4X4 posts. And the top, shelf, and supports are made from cedar. The cedar boards I had made on a friend's saw mill from trees I cut on my property. They are a true 1" thick for extra support. Cedar of course is less prone to warp and rot. They are all attached with deck screws.

The table is setting on steel castor's. The two in the front of the table pivot, so all you have to do to move the entire unit is to push the whole unit like a cart around the yard from station to station. Because of the weight of the table, this is a very solid unit. And easy to move.

Off the back of the table is a removable bench seatthat locks to the off leg of the table. You can adjust the height of the bench or seat with simple pieces of deck boards placed under the foot of the bench. It comes right off and rides on the shelf built under the main platform for storage and moving the bench around.

The shelf located under the main deck is where when shooting,I store my powder when on the range to protect it from erratic flyingsparks. Its also is in the shade, so I store my lubes, boom box, and camera there. And a beverage or two.

The cradle which the rifle rest in, is made fromcedar also, and left over deck material makes up the two paddles you see. In the back of the cradle is where the stock of the rifle rests betweenthe twin paddles. They are only held at the base of the paddle with deck screws. This allows them to flex open, or you can snug them tighter depending on which rifle you have in the cradle. They are shaped so you can not crowd the rifle when you address it. I find this makes me hold a similar sight stance each time which I feel leads to better accuracy. Inside the paddles is a cord that keeps the rifle from kicking backward. The cord absorbs recoil at the same time. The cord also tightens the tension or loosens the tension of the paddles to the butt stock of the rifle.

The butt stock of the rifle is raised and lowered inside the paddlesby simple incline wedges that you slide under the butt of the rifle until it is at the desired height. The paddles also make sure the rifle can not cantor or fall off the cradle when you are not holding on to it.

The main frontrest is a $2.00 garage sale trailer jack stand. You raise and lower the rifle with a simple turn of a knob which works the jack bolt that runs through the stand. The trailer jack is attached to the cradle through the base of the stand with a simple eye bolt held in place with a wing nut. This makes it easy to take the jack off the cradle when you need to put the whole thing away,on a portable table or transport the cradle and jack to a shooting blind. The pad on the jack is a simple piece of newspaper rolled up and then bound together with duct tape. When it wears out, I make a new one and throw the old one in the burning barrel. It rests in the groove of the jack stand and is attached with more duct tape of course. (I have red and green suspenders for those that wonder) The pad also has a high side that the rifle rest into for added support and also this is a place to put your off trigger hand to rest andsupport the rifle.

I was never happy with the store ones I looked at so I examined them close, took the best features they had, and built my own. I have about $10.00 in the whole projecte. It really works good. Also the cradle and jack can be taken into the woods ahead of time to a ground blind with a small table built in it.I have the blind of some other property down the road. The blind overlooks a largehayfield. It makes it nice I figure if I ever (which so far I have not had to) had to make a real long shot across the field.