bench, sand bags etc. How do u sight in?
 

I've done a fair job at best of sighting in my ML (and rifle for that reason) for the last few years. Thank goodness my shots are short range so I've gotten lucky up to this point that I've done a satisfactory job. Typically I'll find a chair or bench or something to sit on, then make some kind of make shift table to rest my gun on. Or, I'll lay down on the ground and shoot from that position. Up to this point I haven't used sand bags or any kind of "gun vise" type device to help me sight in more accurately. I'm consideringpurchasing an inexpensive gun vise/sight in type stand toprovide a better base for my ML when sighting in. Or, maybe a couple of sand bags. What would you all suggest. I sawa cleaning stand/sighting in standat Wal-mart for about 20 bucks. Would it be 20 bucks well spent? I just don'tthink I'm getting the accuracyI couldbe getting. Any advice is appreciated

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I have been using the allen front and back rest that I got at wally world for $23, they are really not all bad, unless you goto a range that have elevated yardage like the one I goto, better then what I used last year, a vise wish a couple of towels to keep the gun from scraching the gun

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That was a very inexpensive rest that I use and find it works just fine. Is this what you are talking about?

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gt2003

This is what I use - we do not have any public ranges around here...

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i shoot from a fixed shooting benchand a sand bag rest.

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cayugad, that's what I'm talking about. I think it would be 100% more accurate than what I'm using now. But, I will run by walmart tomorrow and check out the allen bags. Thanks, Greg

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Dang Cayugad!!! Stop showin off, if my wife sees how organized you are she's gonna get on my case again!!!:D

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Buddy of mine has a 100 yard range and permanent bench set up at his house - about 3/4 mile from my house. His bench is okay but it was designed for his height so I have to build things up a bit. We just use homemade sandbags for rests. Very convenient setup for himself and his friends. There has only been one time that I've gone out there when anyone aside from us did any shooting. Sometimes we have to wait for his cattle to get out of the way though. :)

Another friend and I constructed a portable bench which was made using a basketball backboard I picked up at a yard sale for $2. It a white synthetic material and makes a good table. He keeps it at his house since he only did 90% of the actual work. :D We've used it a grand total of twice I think. He got a little carried away with the angled steel and it isn't as portable as either of us had envisioned - really not that bad either.

Whatever sort of table you shoot from... pad your elbows. OUCH!!

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Garminator -- I do all of this just to cause trouble.. :D:D The trouble is, if I don't I can not find anything. I just bought another shotgun cleaning rod for the new shotgun (the barrel of the rifle is pointing at it). Came home and was putting it away and found the old one (see the little orange handle next to the freezer lid in the back corner :eek:).. That's the kind of person I am.

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Sabotloader, LMAO:D:D:D

That's same way my pickup looks when I'm at the pit. lol

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I just bought this at Cabelas:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?id=0020055225831a&navCount=1&podI d=0020055&parentId=cat20793&masterpathid=& amp;navAction=jump&cmCat=MainCatcat602007-cat20793&catalogCode=QW&rid=&parentTyp e=index&indexId=cat20793&hasJS=true

I have not used it yet. I shot off the tail gate of my truck with sand bags. I like SabotLoader's set up so I bought the separate shooting table. This one is made of steel and is pretty heavy. I have been in Big Game Tree Stands and they are STRONG, that is why I bought the Shooting Bench.
Chap

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Here's my rest. I can't remember the name but it's a $95 special from Cabelas. Works good for me. And the bench is at the sportsman club I belong too. If I lived out in the country I'd be getting some concrete blocks and concrete mix and building a bench like this.

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This is my homemde set up from scrap wood. I bought the folding table legs from Lowes for about $20.00. The OSB is scrap from a building site as were the 2x4 for the rifle rest proto type I built. Never got aroud to doing one in steel yet.
I did place some drawer liner on the table top to stop the rest from sliding so easy.



I made the back stop from the same stuffthatwas used at a pay to use range I went to many years ago.
Stops a 168gr Speer Mag tip from a 300win mag shot at 25 yards and the 54 cal. muzzle loader. Car tires stacked and filled with sand.



:)Al

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Load development, andother testing is done off this rest I made.....


Which, is right next to this stuff.....



Which is housed in this (old pic)..........



And overlooks this.........



All other shooting, sighting in, practice, most hunting shots, ect.....are done MPAJ.

Allow my son to demonstrate.........

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Well its all in what you are comfortable with; I won the 1978 ILL.round ball bench rest state championship in all classes with a wood ironing board and an old original over the log gun that had a couple of Big pits in the barrel.
You would not have believed it possable if you seen the nice expensive equipment that was there.Its not what you have got but how well you use it as often as not, I still use that old ironing board for all my guns and my crossbow, unless I am at the club we have here now which has very nice bench rests even if they are to low. Lee

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I think thats the one I got, It has 2 clamps you can add? Or maybe I bought the Kolpin. (about the same price). It's at dads so I can't check. I took a zip-lock freezer bag and filled it with about 20lbs of lead shot. Then put that inside an old bank deposit bag. Then lay it across the frame of the rest. It worked great for the money!

chris

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MPAJ ? Does that mean My Poor Aching Joints? :D

Nice pics, heckuva setup.

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Something like that...

Grins.........

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I shoot off an Outers Shooting rest and a Black & Decker Workmate, sit on a 5 gallon bucket...In a pinch, you can also use a 50 pound bag of shelled corn as a rest...

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On a 300 yard range cut out of pine woods.

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they are just bags, my wally world has/had the mtm, (they can't keep them in stock this time of year). I don't really like the look of the kolpin, look really weak. I am about to make one based around the the bags.

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Nice Wilds, very very nice. Chap Gleason

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Thanks Chap.....