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Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:06 pm
by meddawg
I am going to make a shooting bench or table for sighting in rifles to leave at the camp. I'm sick of scraping together saw horses with pieces of wood to rest on. Looking to build one out of lumbar. Anyone with any suggestions on design who has built one? Thanks in advance.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:19 pm
by teul2
Going to get made fun of for this, but it was honestly a google image search that landed me here.
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/shooting-bench/
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:33 pm
by donia
....sure it was.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:53 pm
by edub20
Some guy named Joel Williams does have a handle on pinterest as teul2....
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:55 pm
by chevy01234
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:56 pm
by novacaine
hhhhhhmmmmmmm.................gonna have to take your word for it on this one.
Actually pinterest has a lot of cool stuff for construction. Thats right, i said it!!
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:48 pm
by bulldog ducker
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:36 pm
by three11
This one also makes a pretty good picnic table
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:14 pm
by 4dawgma
I'll take some pics of our this weekend. Aside from the random cow knocking it over every year or two, it hasn't budged nor been hurt. It's been there at least 6 years now.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:31 am
by teul2
edub20 wrote:
Some guy named Joel Williams does have a handle on pinterest as teul2....
Your right. I did signup. I'll admit it. Did it to see what the wife was pinning to find a present for her.
Now, will you admit your signed up on there, and that's how you found that? Man enough?
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:45 am
by edub20
teul2 wrote:edub20 wrote:
Some guy named Joel Williams does have a handle on pinterest as teul2....
Your right. I did signup. I'll admit it. Did it to see what the wife was pinning to find a present for her.
Now, will you admit your signed up on there, and that's how you found that? Man enough?
Nawp, not me... There is an edub20 on there but that dudes name is Evan Bridges. I'll admit to being signed up on etsy though...
I had to buy the wife a present for her birthday off of there last year and signed up to do so.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:00 am
by Blackduck
Make sure you built it so you can get the entire rifle infront of your shoulder. Many benches aren't made for large caliber rifles. They make you put the rifle off to the side and you end up along side and not directly behind. This makes it difficult to control the recoil and everything goes to sheet.
Also don't build the seat too low. Definitely err to high.
You may get similar advice from the Pintrest club but I can tell you from first hand experience these two things are a must.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:18 pm
by SwampMan
Here's mine. Found plans on the internet (not pintrest!). I think I had around $80 in lumber. Could have been built cheaper, not sure why I framed it out of 2x6, but its definitely not going anywhere anytime soon.
Re: Shooting bench/table
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:56 pm
by landscaper
If you think there's a chance anyone will be shooting AR's off of bags on it consider cutting slots in it for magazines to slip into so you're not trying to rest the gun on bags and the bottom of the mag.
