"Period Correct" rifle rests....pictures

[rbertalotto]

Had some time to kill last night so I went to the wood shop and banged out a few rests for BPCR shooting....

http://images57.fotki.com/v647/photos/2/36012/10547777/P1030274-vi.jpg

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http://images60.fotki.com/v367/photos/2/36012/10547777/P1030275-vi.jpg
This is a piece of Deer antler for the tightening knob.....

http://images51.fotki.com/v282/photos/2/36012/10547777/P1030269-vi.jpg

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http://images51.fotki.com/v748/photos/2/36012/10547777/P1030272-vi.jpg

More pictures here:
http://public.fotki.com/Rbertalotto/things-that-go-bang/bpcr-shooting-rests/

[Blacksmith]

Those are beautiful. Good thing you just "banged them out" they would be several major projects in my shop and mine might be mistaken for kindling when I was done. Good job.

[firefly1957]

Nice work ....do the rules allow them? I know NMLRA rules are fairly strict about X-sticks Do not know other rules.

[rbertalotto]

The cross sticks will be allowed, but the benchrest is simply for my use at my range when sighting in or load development.

I saw a picture of the benchrest in an old book and I just wanted to build one......Was a fun couple hour project.

[Alstep]

Very nicely done!

[GabbyM]

I seriously enjoy the deer antler tightening knob.

Very nice work.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Nice results for just banging about. I sure do like to see wood and not paint.
"Sticks" are my favorite way to go shooting. Gets my bony little body sitting upright in a natural shooting position and recoil gets distributed correctly.
Very nice work !
Mike in Peru

[x101airborne]

Very Nice..... Like was already said, If I tried to do that I would only have one toothpick left out of 4 board feet of lumber.

But I guess I would be able to flux a lot!

[DaveInFloweryBranchGA]

Nice looking stuff, good job. Makes me miss my wood shop I had to give up when I went back to college.

[rbertalotto]

About the wood shop thing............

A few years back I had an amazing woodshop that I was building wooden boats and period furniture out of. My table saw cost near $8K and along with surface planers, jointer, drill press, etc, I had over $25K into it. I sold it when customers became impossible to please.........My son and I then went into the "Retail Store Fixture" manufacturing business. We had everything CNC. Many times you never even saw the wood while it was being worked on. We had a Holzima panel saw that cost $135,000!!! And a 5 axis CNC router that was just a bit more.

Just before the recession hit we sold the business..........THANK GOD! (It didn't survive with the new owners....)

I haven't touched a piece of wood in near 20 years. Metal working won my "hobby heart" and a lathe and milling machine now stand in my shop where woodworking tools used to live.

But I had a hankering with this Cowboy Action Shooting to build a few wood items. A gun cart with "wagon Boxes was first on the list. And I ended up building a few for friends.

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/cowboy-action-shooting-gun-cart.html

Staging strips came next and this turned into a cottage business. I'm selling tons of these things

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/cowboy-action-staging-strip-loading-block-for-sale.html

So I needed to buy some new woodworking equipment. But it had to be portable so I could store it in the shed and roll it out when needed.

I picked up a fantastic table saw from Lowes for $300. Amazing performer for the money. Portacable is a good brand.

http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/000999/000999220007xl.jpg

On the slide out table extension I cut a hole and mounted a cheap router from underneath. Works great!

I wanted a stationary Belt Sander so Horrible Freight had one for $199 and I used a 20% off coupon. $160 get you a great sander!

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_2138.jpg

And I bought a $39 drill press from Horrible Freight that is perfect for what I'm doing with it. BTW, the spindle runout on this drill press is near zero!

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_11232.jpg

I bought a real good Freud 60 tooth blade for the tablesaw and away I go.

So for under $500, I have a very functional woodworking shop that I can wheel away into my storage shed. When I think that $500 wouldn't even buy a good set of bits for the CNC router I just shake my head!

But I still like metal working better....Much cleaner!.....Even though all the tools have been modified to collect the sawdust with my shop vac.....I just hate the sawdust over everything!

[alamogunr]

I picked up a fantastic table saw from Lowes for $300. Amazing performer for the money. Portacable is a good brand.

http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/000999/000999220007xl.jpg


Glad to see you got a good one. The Porter Cable and Delta brands were bought by Black and Decker a couple of years ago. My experience with Black and Decker is that they can take the best tool in the world and redesign it into the biggest piece of **** you can imagine, all in the name of improvement for manufacturing. I will never buy anything produced by a Black and Decker company.

[montana_charlie]

I have some 'tall' cross stix that I made for shooting in the seated position, but I do most of my shooting at home from a bench.

Realising that the sandbag on The Rock made by Caldwell is not quite the same as shooting off of a leather strip glued to wood, I made this module which gets 'clamped' in position by the 'ears' on The Rock's saddle.

It's relationship with a steel barrel is identical (where the rubber meets the road) to a set of stix ... and is easily switched with the normal sandbag.

http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv203/montana_charlie/BenchStix.jpg

CM

[missionary5155]

Greetings
I like that idea of a bench mount with the leather covered angles. Sit that up on a couple cement block and you would be sitting straight up. I am going to have to explore this a bit.
Mike in Peru