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Any experience with the Grizzly Bald Eagle Bench Rest?

I have the "Slingshot" in cast iron and it's a brute! For my purposes, (sighting in) it's more than worth the money. I didn't get the one with the flexible adjustment because I had heard that it didn't work very smoothly. However, later I earned that the 'fix' for the problem is easy. The adjustments are smooth and it stays put.
 
Of course the rest is not new, the windage adjustment is. I never had problem with the windage adjustment on mine. Depending on the caliber you shoot, the triangle cast iron will handle most hard kicking calibers quite well. I tried a slingshot and it needed to much adjustment with heavy recoil calibers. I'm a Neo fan now but the only difference my old Bald Eagle and my NEO is speed to move from sighter to record!









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Watch your sling studs on the bag,they will eat up a bag.

+1 on this. I lay a cutoff jean leg on top of mine to protect the pad from AR handguards and sling studs.

I have the cast iron sling shot rest. I didn't care so much for the cable, so I removed it and replaced it with a knob type adjustment instead. I reversed my rest so it is now on the left side of the rest.
 
The original Bald Eagle, Bill Gebhart, built the slingshot to accommodate shooters who encountered narrow benches or benches out of alignment with the firing line. Later Bill drilled and threaded a second hole in the left, not sure about the right, leg on the standard front rest so that the shooter could have the rest hang over the edge of the bench. I have one such rest. I never needed that fourth foot but it was there if I needed it.
 
I have both an aluminum and cast iron Bald Eagle and both have 3/8X16TPI threads.
The cast one I own is most definitely 1/2" x13, I just looked again at bullets website unless I'm missing something?? the info on the aluminum ones says 3/8"x16 and the info on cast says 1/2" x13. Excluding the big fifty of course. I wish my cast slingshot did have 3/8"x16 I would like to have the speed screws.
 
I have been shooting in IBS 1000 yd. competition since 2000. And have been pretty successful using one and have no plane to upgrade.
 

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The cast one I own is most definitely 1/2" x13, I just looked again at bullets website unless I'm missing something?? the info on the aluminum ones says 3/8"x16 and the info on cast says 1/2" x13. Excluding the big fifty of course. I wish my cast slingshot did have 3/8"x16 I would like to have the speed screws.

Make a threaded bushing and glue it in that one leg. Thread the outside and tap the inside 3/8-16. Id use brass or bronze and probably drill the rest out and tap it bigger to 5/8 or so just to make it easier. That cast iron machines like butter.
 
Make a threaded bushing and glue it in that one leg. Thread the outside and tap the inside 3/8-16. Id use brass or bronze and probably drill the rest out and tap it bigger to 5/8 or so just to make it easier. That cast iron machines like butter.
Drilling to 5/8" and then making a bushing sounds like the ticket. I think it's my best option. Thanks.
 
I've had a Slingshot with flex cable for approximately 3 years now and have sense upgraded to the Neo. It (slingshot) is a great rest for the money and works great on a bench for load development and testing or on the ground for f-class. The only change I made to it was, I removed the two heavy springs used for the windage top and replaced them with lesser tension springs and lubricated the top for easy movement. Works great now.
 
The cast one I own is most definitely 1/2" x13, I just looked again at bullets website unless I'm missing something?? the info on the aluminum ones says 3/8"x16 and the info on cast says 1/2" x13. Excluding the big fifty of course. I wish my cast slingshot did have 3/8"x16 I would like to have the speed screws.


Maybe Shiraz changed them. If you think you need a speed screw just put a 1/2X13 insert in it with 3/8X16 ID threads
 

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