New Shooting Rest

Good looking unit!!, but my $3 flat-topped screw jack from an old car works quite fine...probably much easier to adjust than 99% of these mega-bucks machines and with a simple twist of the wrist I can center those crosshairs just fine...
 
I did a google.com search for the Caldwell Rock BR rest and the first supplier I found had it listed for $149.95. Here's the info from that Web site:

Code: BAC-R-BR
Price: $149.95

The Rock BR Competition Front Rest will help you discover the true potential of your rifle and ammunition. This high quality rest is designed for the most accuracy-minded shooters around - Bench Rest Competitors - and anyone else that appreciates the best out of their rifles.

The rest weighs 15-1/2 lbs. and has elevation adjustments from 5" to 9-1/4". Fine elevation adjustments that are made from a large diameter rotating wheel that glides on a set of ball bearings. Coarse elevation adjustments are made with a locking collar. The windage-adjustable cradle lets shooters make fast, smooth horizontal adjustments.

The Rock BR includes a free 3-lobe synthetic bag that works especially well for flat-bottomed fore-ends. The cradle has specially designed slots that allow users to quickly install, or interchange, any of Caldwell's Deluxe Front Rest Bags to fit round bottomed shapes.

All Rock BR's in stock have the new heavier spring in the windage adjustment.
 
Let us know how it works out. I've been interested in one myself. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Dollar for dollar this rest can't be beat. The high dollar Bald eagle and Sinclair bench rests are nice, to pay nearly $400 for a fully adjustable rest, for me, is just a little bit this side of crazy. Oooooh I wanted one just the same, I saved a scrimpt and debated between the Sinclair and Bald Eagle, I worked a few on E-bay pretty hard and pretty much gave up. Then one day I looked in the junk corner of a local gunshop and there sat a nice Bald Eagle wind adjustable universal rest. It was a right handed model but with little work it could be switched to a left handed model. $150 .... I couldn't pull the money out soon enough. I am happy. But if this vise had come out sooner I would have it in my shop ASAP. This unit is going to hurt Sinclair and Bald Eagle.
 
t/c - There has been a bunch of targets shot with a sandbag rest and for the most part with most hunting rifles a good ol' sand bag is quite enough. There was a time when sand bags ruled the Bench Rest world, but that day is long gone and for good reason. If you truly want to test a VERY accurate rifle nothing does it better than one of these rests. In my view they have been much to expensive for what you get, but they are truly great.

I was happy using an old orange Hoppes rest and sand bags for many years. Then another shooting buddy let me shoot his rifle from his rest/sand bag set-up. I sat down behind the gun, made a few quick adjustments, the gun was as solid as a rock, I settled in for the shot and took it. The gun recoiled as you would expect, but what startled me was, resetting the rifle back into position on the stops it tracked right back on target, not just close but ON TARGET its odd to get excited about this but whow that was neat.

Then consider the interest in long range shooting on PD's, the various ground squirrels in the west and woodchucks in the east, combined with the new breeds of highly accurate factory rifles these rests really shine. They are very versital with the incredable level of adjustment available in these rests. No more fidgeting around to get a shot picture, no more make shift shooting positions. Simply turn to the target, crank in the needed adjustments, lock it down and have at it.
 
I wasn't downing the rest, I'm quite sure that it, and others are excellent, I was just remembering and thinking how time and technology can improve a simple sack of dirt. I'm definately all for long range shooting, been doing it with my 10/22 on jackrabbits for a long time, my farthest kill is 299 yards, lasered. Once I almost managed to hit a chuckar on a hillside farther than the Yardage pro 400 could reach. Now that I got a 223 I can reach farther out, in time with lotsa rounds of ammo I'm sure I could do similar shots with my Encore. I surely Wish that there was prairie dogs here but all I got are jackrabbits and ground squirrels so that'll have to do.

t/c223encore.
 
True, true I hear ya. This type of rest goes back a long ways though, but in my view the old name brands have become ridiculously expensive. This rest excites me because the average shooter can justify the cost of purchasing one.
 
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I got one and also a coyote jakes rest they both work great. Just got back from the panhandle tonight shooting pds, had a great shoot shot 643 dogs today shot all day my new pacnor barrel in 204 is a real shooter bucks the wind way way better than my 223 or my 19223.
 
I got one of those Hoppe orange thangs!

My favorite rest for either shooting groups for load development/sight-in or deal closing on "sniped" 'otes is my home-made butterfly bag (like the Bulls Bag).

On a pickup hood it spans the flexing tendency. Practical or Tactical!

Now with a bench. That $150 mechanical rest would be tops. But where I go ...... it's a Bulls type bag or my jacket or similar.

Three 44s
 
Being frugal my rest consist of a old pair of pants that the legs were cut off to make 3 sand bags. Cost - $3 for 50 lbs fine playground sand and about 1 hour of sewing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

Use a old pair of camo pants and everyone wants to know where you got the cool camo bags. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Hey, anyone want to buy 20 lbs of never used sand. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Camo pants are cool, but I use a one-of-a-kind US Mint currency bag. My last retail store received change from the bank in federal currency bags. I snagged a $2,000 (ones) bag and filled it with sand for occasional use under the buttstock of rifles. It gets looks at the range. Todd

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