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What is your favorite rest for shooting your best, most accurate groups? I do know from shooting spring air rifles that the rest can have huge impacts on accuracy. Asking because recently I have been shooting my .243 with a bipod getting decent results - took it off and shot off a semi hard plastic rest (front) bag back with better results, then put a bag rest on the plastic rest and bag in the back and things improved markedly. Has me wondering if one of the big X type bags may be one of the better rests overall. What do you prefer? Thoughts?


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I have been using a Caldwell butterfly type bag with a small bag rest for the buttstock with good results. Besides being very stable and forgiving on the bench, it is very portable and I don't feel bad if I set it on the hood of my truck for those impromptu shooting sessions.

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The material in a bag has a lot to do with it. If slick, like teflon (BR shooter use teflon tape on theirs, and talcum powder, etc, so the rifle will slide easily).the rifle can slide and not hang up, even for that nanosecond, which effects accuracy. The leather or plain cloth bags can make the rifle hand up. I used a Doktor back bag, with a slick plastic like material on the wings. The front bag is leather with a plastic seat. I'm now using a Eagle brand rest, that I just got. Used to use a, shoot forget the brand, one I bought in 1965, but it was outdated. But the bags make the difference. As you noted, can go from okay to real good, just by changing out the bags. BUT both the front and rear bags should be slick where the rifle rests.

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I shot benchrest for years and used a Baldeagle front rest and rear leather bunny ear bag. Still have them and use them on a regular basis.

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tisha,

Do you think that putting duct tape over leather shooting bags would be adequate?

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Flour or talcum powder slicks a leather bag right up. ED K

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Originally Posted by centershot
What is your favorite rest for shooting your best, most accurate groups? I do know from shooting spring air rifles that the rest can have huge impacts on accuracy. Asking because recently I have been shooting my .243 with a bipod getting decent results - took it off and shot off a semi hard plastic rest (front) bag back with better results, then put a bag rest on the plastic rest and bag in the back and things improved markedly. Has me wondering if one of the big X type bags may be one of the better rests overall. What do you prefer? Thoughts?


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Hart Rest 17 lbs
Bunny Ear rear bag

Use Suave Antiperspirant with Talc to get the powder on the bag. Lot easier to apply in windy conditions than dry powder.

Be sure to remove sling studs. Or, at least make sure they don't get into the bag in recoil on either end.


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I use Caldwell bags most of the time but i'm sure there are better ones available


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glad you asked i have been wondering same thing.


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With round slim fore arm rifles I don't like the bench rest type rest -those type stocks don't ride the bags well.
I do like bench type rest when shooting a rifle with a wide flat stock.

I have a small size bulls bag -Caldwell I believe- it keeps the slender fore arm stocks from canting . That and a rabbit ear caldwell rear bag are my favorite set up.


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Caldwell green canvas front bag, leather bunny ear rear works for me.


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This what I have used for a long time with great results.

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I worked in a solder factory for years and acquired a set of coin bags. I filled them with kitty litter, tied them off with electrical ties and . . Viola! ( How'd she get in here?)

When I made bags for my deer blinds, I used the legs of old blue jeans and closed off an end with a sewing machine, filled them with kitty litter and then sewed up the other end.


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Caldwell 15 pound front w/ 2 tops. 1 for flat, 1 for rounded. Bunny ear rear.


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I rarely use a front rest anymore, most of my shooting is done off a bipod. I use various rear bags and sometimes no rear bag. Depending on gun. I have an old Hoppes front rest a with leather front bag ,when I do use a front rest.

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Maybe you might try one of my Front rest tops on about any heavy base. For a front bag I prefer a Protector bag with slippery cloth. I use a tall rabbit ear bag on the rear.
Shown is a shot of our early model rest top on a Bald Eagle base. Our new models have a longer joystick. It is a coaxial rest and offers 22" of vertical and horizontal movement.
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Dumb question about bipods, but do you put the legs trailing or forward?
I use shooting sticks a lot, and I always "trail" them so the front doesn't jump.
Does it matter?


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I'm not real picky:

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WTF are you guys gonna do, if'n ya have a flat on the way to the range? my rest can do double-duty to jack up the car.....

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