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I'll kick it off. I built a wooden shooting bench last year for the front porch at deer camp. This year, I decided on putting something in the field that would be there a while. This was my first attempt at a concrete slab bench. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. It took (4) 80 lb. bags of sakrete. I used hog panel wire for inside the concrete for support. To make the bench slick, I lined the concrete form with plastic trash bag and for the top, I use a piece of shower paneling inside of the form. The top of the bench came very slick almost like granite. The bench top weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 340 lbs. At some point, I may pour a pad and put a roof over the bench. I also may do something different than cinder blocks it's sitting on. As it sits, I can shoot out to 400 yards. I'd like to get a dozer in to be able to shoot out to 600 yards.









Let's see your bench.

Show-off

4" x 4" square heavy wall steel pipe, 1" PVC top, built 6 of them for the ranch gun range, they weigh 400# each and don't move or wobble, you set in the bench. on what ever chair you want to use. Steel targets from 50 yrds to 1800 yrds, pic's from when I was building the range, it's more complete now. Rio7

Rio......SWEET!!!!

1,800 yard range...wowzers

Nice top, but get yourself something better to sit on.

True that.

That's nice Rio.

Wow Rio,

That's quite a range.
I don't think there's an 1,800 yard in our state.
Your last name wouldn't happen to be Tubb?

Happy Camper, Not Tubb, Lard Ass maybe. Rio7

LMAO........!

I like 'em mobile.......

like a goose neck hay wagon

20 Vartarg on board

RIO7: The office chairs are a nice touch.

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Sweet location Devnull.

It looks like a good range to see some whitetails.
400 Aint too bad for the hill country either.
It looks like it would produce some hay. That's a lot to keep clean.

High Noon,

Bought the office chairs at a auction, $10.00 apiece, bought 20 of them, I like them because they swivel and they go up and down, and they are on wheels easy to move around, they have worked out real well. Rio7

High Noon,

Bought the office chairs at a auction, $10.00 apiece, bought 20 of them, I like them because they swivel and they go up and down, and they are on wheels easy to move around, they have worked out real well. Rio7

I welded up this one using 2" square tube and 6" C-purlin. It's very stable and can easily be lifted in and out of a truck bed. I added the ammo cans and keep targets, stapler and shooting bags in them. We leave it at the deer lease and just drag it to whatever shooting distance we want.

I don't have one here yet, but when I ws in Kotzebue, I used a clay sluff-bank on the beach, a few miles out of town. I could lay prone (at a 45 degree up-angle), and use the top of the bank for my "bench". Worked great. Very comfortable. I could shoot way farther than I would shoot, with the beach bank as a backstop down-range.

I found these just below my "shooting bench" one day when I went down there.



Winter time I just used the snow machine seat.