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Now you tell me! I thought about hand holds and then decided against them at least until we use the benches some. We were kinda crunched for time, we built 2 start to finish in one day. Thanks for the design input and sharing your bench pictures.

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If you are looking for quick and easy go get a Black and Decker Workmate. Cut your plywood top to whatever and then use carriage bolts to hold a 2x2 on the bottom which gets clamped by the Workmate. Thank me later.
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Originally Posted by whelennut
If you are looking for quick and easy go get a Black and Decker Workmate. Cut your plywood top to whatever and then use carriage bolts to hold a 2x2 on the bottom which gets clamped by the Workmate. Thank me later.
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That is what I use but it isn't light and the four frick'en legs aren't ideal. It does work but I would want a rest to pivot if I was shooting a dog town.

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Hand hold on one side, notches on the other. Problem solved.

I have a Booger bench made with a set of folding table legs.

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My buddy built a tri-pod similar to yours. It's definitely more stable but harder to move. (No free lunches eah?)
He solved the notch vs handle dilemma by not adding either. smile

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Originally Posted by willecoyote
We built a couple this weekend, I'll let you know in a couple weeks if it's the best for all day shooting or not. We kept the "ear" narrow enough to let your elbow hang over.


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Where can you get the mounts for the legs?


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For the money, it's hard to beat that Big Game Swivel Bench shrapnel has in one of his photos. I have two that have made 5 trips now and they're real easy to haul and setup. Having 360* of movement is so nice when you're scanning for your next target. They even hold up my fat ass which is amazing.

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shrapnel,

Don't listen to these dumb-asses from Wisconsin.

I'd be happy to shoot prairie dogs with you some time.

At your spot.

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Prwlr, we made them, my son cut and drilled the plates at school in his agriculture class, he was going to cut and weld the couplings in class to but we ran out of time so we did that at home.

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I built a small T shaped one using table legs like yours, and in the fields I shoot a little wiggling settles the 4 legs in well. I was concerned about the 4 vs 3, until I built one.

My T is more of a pie wedge, the front is curved, it is wide and the back portion is skinny so my elbow usually hangs off the benchtop, but when it is on it, after 100+ rounds, I usually spend more time making sure the red elbow is off the bench the rest of the day's shooting. The narrow back and wide front lets me slide my front rest maybe 30 degree's right-left, and if I see a bugger off to the side I can move the chair, move the rest/ rear bag in close ( or ditch the rear bag) and swing wide, and re-adjust the whole setup if I spy more vermin I hadn't seen sneaking around.

Another week and a few days and I'll try mine out again for a week of shooting Skippy, the flying squirrel.

That 4 leg sure is stout!!!!!

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Don't know about perfect, I guess that depends on personal preference but, these worked perfectly well for us...
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I like the gun notches. May have to consider adding those to mine!

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screw notches.... handhold-style slots rule.....

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We cut the notches deep and didn't have any trouble with the wind but with holes you could never have a problem with a rifle falling but they would be harder to switch rifles while sitting. To be honest we didn't lean the rifles in them very often anyway. We were constantly sliding the back of the benches left and right to line up on the next shot!

Don, hate to break it to you... notches rule!

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Will, to each his own....But after meeting you and seeing that you're not physically (or mentally) challenged, I don't see how you would have any trouble adapting to the MUCH superior slot method. It's only as hard as ya make it........Besides that, where ya gonna hang yer rangefinder pouch from a frigging notch?(bottom pic)

There. It's been broken to you. Again......grin

And when those purty new benches start getting all scratched up sliding then in and out of the truckbed(and it bothers you), you can slot some PVC pipe for the edges. Keeps some chit from blowing off,and protects the top by raising it off the bed when loaded upside-down.I still think you should do the ammo shelf deal underneath, too.......

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you can make a deal to hold the legs for transport, in the cooling shelf underneath.

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Rangefinder?... ain't that the same as cheatn!?
We just guess, shoot, see where the dust flys adjust and shoot again. Now.....about that mentally challenged thing, you sure you don't want to reconsider your evaluation! wink

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Good thing you went to kansas instead of here. Your 'dust fly' shot puts them down for good here. Only one chance on smart ones.


You are right on reconsidering the mental part. I now realize that maybe, just maybe, removing the rifle from slots with a 3-things-to-do action, instead of a simple yank, is above your capacity....grin

Repeat after me. lift, tilt and remove, lift, tilt and remove, lift, tilt and remove......all from the comfort of a seated position.

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Let me try!..lift tilt remove lift tilt remove tilt lift remove remove lift tilt..? wait..hows that go again?
BTW we had 2 rangefinders they sat nicely on top of the bench.

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"you can make a deal to hold the legs for transport, in the cooling shelf underneath."

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Got that covered Don, check out the bottom of the pic, you can carry the legs in one hand and the top in the other...nice and balanced....not heavy unbalanced like your's....just admit it....my design is superior smile

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OK, I'll admit it, just to SYTF up.....grin

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Im disappointed in you, you gave in to easy. I'm a guy from the east that's only shot prairie dogs once in his life, you had this won hands down!
I'm heading out to the shop now to cut handholds in our benches.

All jokes aside, thanks for sharing!
Will

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