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Keep your eyes open for the Caldwell Rock BR front rest, I have seen them on sale for as low as $120. I have used one for quite a few years and have been satisfied with it.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1015040838?pid=348661

drover

Thanks guys!

Yeah, but he has to swim to the damn target... Ha ha.. Nice shooting Jackmountain. Looks like a great and peaceful place to shoot.. That's like some Navy training there. Air land and sea... My dad was a seabee, he would have loved it...

I'm not going to bad mouth the Hoppe's front rest. I have a couple of them. One thing you need to do to make them more stable is keep one of the legs facing in the direction you are shooting, as seen here in these pics:


If you'll notice, yours is cocked off to the side/diagonally. That makes it "wobbly".



Your front bag should also match up to the size of the forend your rifle has. Here's another front rest I have that I use for one of my AR's, because its lower and compliments that rifle better:


Here's another one of my Hoppe's front rests in action:

However, notice how the bag is too big for the forend of the Tikka... It's not a good match. The reason I have a couple Hoppes front rests and the bigger one I showed with the AR15..

On my short table (portable bench), I have to turn one of the legs of the front rest towards me for room. With it orientated in this position, it is still stable.


This is what the 52 did that day:


Thanks for playing along Jackmountain. I look forward to seeing how your Tikka shoots too. Good luck with your front rest situation. If it's "wobbly" because its worn out (the jacking screw or something), get rid of it and buy a new one...

Thats really good shooting Jackmountain - this is not as “easy” as it looks. It definitely is humbling but like I think we are all finding out in that humbling experience we are also learning a great deal about our equipment, technique and environmental variables. I’m looking forward to more shooting adventures as soon as I can get back out!

PennDog

BSA,

A hand towel/terrycloth folded once with take up that space under the Tikka you show in your photo.

Yep, that works too and a great suggestion for a guy that only has one front rest. But I have other front rests that work better. How's the weather been from you guys? I'm in Nevada right now and there is a lot of snow. A lot of blowing and drifting snow, so no good for shooting.

No doubt…. Shoot 5 shot groups, every other group you get a “flyer” but you still have quite a few pretty little groups to look at at the end of the day.
Being consistent 20 times in a row is definitely a little harder, at least for me. The ergos on the Anschutz stock are so much better than the KRG.

I regretting posting that having read where you have multiple bags. Sorry.
Lately the weather has been warm, to warm for Dec. Yesterday it was in the high 60's and will be the rest of this week with lots of rain.
I should have gotten out and shot some more of your targets, but instead was working up a load for the 223.
Snow would be nice, not blowing snow though. I love to Coyote hunt and snow helps.