This is my folding bench rest before I put the new and improved top on it which is 1/2 plywood with about 5 coats of finish. As you can see it is sporting ENCOREMAN's new Express rifle.

Pittsburghunter,
Now that's a mighty fine looking rifle....I'm drooling right now

"Oh Yeah" Your bench set up looks good too, but I'm having a hard time taking my eyes off the rifle

all our benchs at camp are permanet.i made mine out of scrap wood.it has roof on it also.i only carry my bags out and gun, no table. why do so many of you use a portable bench when a permanet one is much better and more solid and not necessary to carry a bench out to shoot?thanks

my table and rest are portable so I can move them all over the yard to shoot at different distances and angles. Also I take the rest part hunting once in a while when I hunt out of one blind over a field. It is for the long distances shots should they ever occur.

sproulman,
There's no doubt that a permanent bench is more solidand I prefer a permanent bench, but there are times when the winds out of the wrong direction or I want to shoot somewhere else. I have a stone quarry a mile down the road for me and it's nice to get out of the wind.

Having a portable bench and target frame plus driving a pickup is a blessing.Not all of us have land at home we can shoot on.

PPH, I like your bench, looks like it would work very well. I also like the rifle, looks great. But I do wish the rag wasn't in front of the rest. What I can see of it it looks so simple to build one from some scrap lumber I have around here. Appears it clamps the rifle both at the forearm and the buttstock.

Sproulman, I would also like to have a perment shooting bench. Problem is I only have a place 25 yards I can shoot at home. I do have the use of the property next door where I can get about 125 to 150 yards before it starts running up a hill. So I can't have any thing perment there. I also wanted a bench at the cabin. One thing I have learned at the cabin is leave nothing out side. Includeing home made wooden gates and other triva stuff, for some reason they tend to walk off.
I had a fish cleaning table I had made and it had a old cast iron sink at one end, I picked out of a ditch one time. I still have the sink but the table just up and dumped the sink on the ground and ran off with the plastic barrel the sink drained into. Our cabin is so hidden there isn't even electric there. Hidden that is except for the drive/trail to it.

I also like the idea of setting it up on the edge of a cranberry marsh and pot shoting yotes as they cross.

Al

Some thing to study and build when the snow melts off my scrap metal pile. Looks easy enough even for me to build.



Al

i guess a lot of you are not as lucky as me, sorry. out sportsmen club has 7 benchs under roof.membership is 7 dollars a year to club. i belong to 2 sportsmen clubs, so i have 9 benchs to shoot from. at our camps everyone on privateland has shooting bench, i bet 25 in area have them.you can use mine and they let you use theirs. you will not see anyone most of time at camp benchs so you have it quiet. at sporstmen clubs,if you go at right time, no one is there. i see now why you need portable bench where you dont have land you own or sportsmen club. take care.