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.
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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
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