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I know there's alot of ingenious and creative folks here.
Do you have any examples of, or ideas for building an economical gun vise, one for securing a rifle to clean or work on?

Urathane here but sometimes leather or wood jaws

now i like that! good one.

Hard to beat for only $43...........

MTM Gun Vise

Could have been based off an old truck wheel for even greater DIY coolness - not that it's lacking - just saying. I have always wanted on like it really. Well done HM!

I just use a couple parrot vices vizes. Table top space is at a premium throughout my world.

thanks for spelling "VISE" correctly.
good luck with the project

Yeah, coulda gotten some REALLY interesting suggestions, had I used the incorrect spelling.

Thanks to all for the pics and ideas so far.
Yeah the MTM , pretty economical price.

I have scrap lumber and a fair amt of tools and stuff.
Would like to see what I can construct, if possible.

My son built this one for me in shop class.



The Plano Shooters Case is very handy, especially at the range and on hunting trips. I think I paid $30.00 for it locally.

Your son has some serious wood working skills!

Roundoak,
I made mine from oak
Not quite that nice, but it has worked for many years.

I use a regular bench vise like Tedthorn and MtnBoomer posted. Mine has a square channel and I just notched out 2 pieces of plywood so they sit down over the channel and the top sits flush or slightly higher than the top of the jaws. Throw those 2 pieces of plywood in and in 2 seconds its a gun vise.

I never clamp on the stock but on the barrel right ahead of the forearm. You can make it good and tight without making any marks and guaranteed not to move.

Like this.

Wyogal, for discussion sake here's a few more ways of doing it. It'd be via mail of course, but if you need any special pieces cut, just say the word...

About simple as simple gets. For awhile I used a clamp like this gripping the butt and laid the forearm on a stack of books. There's lots of pics of other simple to make rigs set up with these clamps.

Here's a nifty little butt clamping strategy that appears several times on a search for DIY gun vise...

I nearly bought one of these Tipton units. I'd much rather suffer it than the other retail models I've seen. Good Luck!

I added over sized wooden jaws with rubber sheets contact cemented to the wood to this inexpensive carpenter's vise from Harbor Freight. I use it for all sorts of rifle work.

http://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/vises-anvils/6-inch-portable-carpenters-vise-95203.html

I bought one of those a week or two ago for half price at Cabela's. It's the Tipton with Cabela's on it. They've redesigned the front rest with shallower but wider notches. It allows a "normal" width fore end to drop below horizontal, which is fine for cleaning but not what I wanted for scope mounting so took it back. I'll continue suffering my Outers rest with a rear clamping support until I find something better.

I made this one quite a few years ago and still use it

Had one of those for years.

Not as nice as Don's though.

Many thanks to all for the great ideas. Multipurpose, re-purposing, etc. Yard sales right around the corner.
Now I'm ready, and now got an idea what kinds of stuff I'm looking for, to make a gun vise.

Nice ideas, gentlemen.
Deerstalker, very nice work. I might borrow that design, and add adustable screw legs. Nice attention to detail.

Funny you should say that!

That's where I got mine. Cost me
$5.