Rifle Rest Project

[Watchman]

I just finished building my rifle rest. For the benefits of a few friends that frequent this forum and are interested in building a rifle rest, I have posted my pics here.

Its similar to the Sinclair Windage Adjustable rest, it has the windage adjustable rest and about 8 inches of verticle movement. I used black hammerfinish paint that I got from Lowes. I used stainless steel for most of the parts. The Sinclair uses a 1 inch diameter post that is threaded 8 threads per inch, I felt that it was a bit coarse, so I made my post 20 threads per inch. To avoid potential galling problems with stainless on stainless I used 410SS for the screw and 304SS for everything else. There is 1 inch of left/right movement on the windage for fine tuning. The sandbag rest is a Sinclair Medium rest, it cost me 14 bucks. Paint was 4$ so other than several hours of time it cost me about 18 bucks since I used scrap parts.

I tig welded the legs to the turret, but it is not necessary. Any conventional welding process can be used, as can any thread per inch and any color paint. Knurling the knobs also isnt required, but it does look cool I think.

I think that about covers it. If anyone has any questions, just me know.

more pics

 

[JA]

The link shows no pics but says that "you are not the owner of the album,log in".

 

[Watchman]

Link is fixed. Tyr it again.

 

[DMK]

Nice craftsmanship! That thing is like the Cadillac of rifle rests.

 

[JA]

Very nice it looks like one of those high dollar store bought rests.

 

[Elarski]

Very nice rest! Are you going to make more for sale? If so, how much will you charge?

 

[Watchman]

I made it because I needed one and the one that I was using was primitive compared to that one.

I have no plans to sell any. I posted the pics because a few shooter friends of mine that like to tinker with buiding their own stuff also do some machine work as a hobby. Since I do it for a living, I coach them alot of how to do things.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes just seeing an example of what you want makes building it alot easier, you dont have to reinvent it. You can look at it and change yup whatever you dont like, thats the fun of it. Using the internet is an easy way to show them pictures of stuff so that they have an idea of where to start. I post them on my webshots site because there are others around the country like me that might get some good ideas on making things if they can just see some pictures to do it.

These same guys also reload. Ive got some pics of other things that I made such as a press, a powder measure and other tools used for reloading. Most are not hard to make if you have the right equipment.

I figure I've got around 20 hours of actuall labor in the rest. I used mostly scrap parts, so the material was nothing.