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which do you choose? front/rear bag with front adjustable rest, or something like a lead sled?



edit: i posted this in the wrong subforum

I use a set up like this

I use a Bald Eagle base with a Shadetree Engineering coaxial rest top.

Never a Lead Sled unless you are interested in what your rifle does strapped to a piece of chit.. .

Have had this modified Bald Eagle (Chinky Grizzly) for a few years. I think I actually shoot better using sand bags.

John I just bought one at Sprtsman Warehouse made( or marketed) by Primos. $79.99

I like it the best of the current crop, even though its not expensive.

I've got a set of Caldwell front and rear nylon bags, a Caldwell adjustable front rest {forget what it's called} and a set of leather sandbags that I can't remember the brand.. The leather bags are definitely the best for shooting off the hood of my Jeep.

I could not agree with you more about the Lead sled !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gotta disagree about the Bald Eagle rest they are pretty good for the money, it might be your set up is off a bit from the picture............I'd tear the worthless material off the cement bench and put some feet on the rest, if you still have your sling stud in it would be recoiling into the bag, rear bag doesn't look like the best fit either.............

Tag

I shoot factory ammo so it is pretty easy to get good zero off a sandbag and a sock full of dried peas for a rear rest. I only use the bench for zeroing. If no bench is available I will confirm my zero off a pack from prone w/ the same rear bag.

In case of an emergency I can make soup.



mike r

I use this one for the front
https://www.caldwellshooting.com/re...deluxe-shooting-rest/383774.html#start=1

Don't know what the fuuck you are talking about. I had nothing negative to say about the Bald Eagle, it's great kit. This particular photo is from a location that has targets down slope... I use the rest with about two dozen different rifles in multiple locations.



Bald Eagle Y.
https://www.grizzly.com/products/bald-eagle-y-rest-cast-iron/be1006

I use a rock BR and a caldwell medium rear bag. No issues for me

So many front rests work very well. The thing that is more important than the front rest is the size of the front bag that straps to the front rest. Look at the Protektor models. They have different sizes, from a #1 (small) to a #3 (large) and then square sided ones from 2" to 6". As long as the front rest is of adequate quality (made of metal and not plastic), then they are all more similar than not. Find a front bag size that fits your rifle the best. Most lightweights like the #1, sporter's like the #2 and real heavy benchrest type rifles with the wide forend like the #3 and bigger. It also helps to place the rifle in the front rest in the right spot. Not right out on the tip of the forend, like some pictured in this thread. Try putting the rifle on the rest so the front action screw is just aft of the bag. See pictures below:



In this pic, I was testing my SKS with different sizes of front bags. It preferred the slightly wider bag on that rest. My Tikka's like the other rest better (blue front rest in picture, made by Hoppes and is aluminum).


Here's another good example of where to set your rifle in the front rest:

I don't f around with chitty rests or equipment. If it doesn't work, it goes in the trashcan. This particular 52B shoots like this, on that day and every day:



Here's a "lightweight" rifle on the rest and the groups it shoots:



You often hear about guys struggling to shoot lightweight rifles and then you see pictures of how they are set up on the bags or rests and then you say, ok...



Even AR's can sit in a good front rest bag and shoot well..

Another lightweight rifle. Tikka superlite:






And no, a front rest does not need a gearshifter and v8 engine to work well.. Just sayin..

Jesus Christ.. oh I know I just offended a few sheep!! But god damn, (more than a few sheep) haha, I’m glad I just go shoot a 200 yard gong and go kill shiit!! Haha 😂😂 BSA peel your no killin ass off the bench and go hunt!! You gotta be bacon throats big brother!! Hit the Google dummy!!! Haha

It still cracks me up that the Paper Tiger takes/posts pics ad nauseam of rifles on benches and targets, but says he never thinks to take pics of dead critters. The claim that posting dead animal pics is just bragging was a hoot too. WTH is the ad nauseam target pics?

A good quality rest (along with a couple of decent wind flags) is one of the first things a person that really wants to evaluate their guns should buy.

PERIOD!

I've had this Hart/Sinclair rest since the mid '90's. With the various tops and bags I have, it works well for my hunting rifles and competition Benchrest guns. If you get a top with the 3" fore end bag, Hart makes the excellent Accuracy Asset that screws to the fore end sling stud and makes a sporter gun as stable in the front rest as a BR gun.











For the 3" fore end Benchrest rigs, my Farley coaxial with Butch Lambert's Shadetree Engineering tune up pieces was the best.

Tom, is that the "Group Therapy rest? if so it looks interesting. have you used it yet?

I can shoot sub MOA off the hood of my Jeep with sand bags. Plenty good enough for my hunting purposes. Shooting endless holes in paper bores the shyt out of me.

I have a Wichita used it for years.