Balancing a rifle

[BarryL]

How do tell if your bench gun is balanced properly, and if not how do you fix this?

 

[Preacher]

A couple of good digital bathroom scales front and back will give you a good idea of how good your balance is.
Add or subtract weight to correct the problem area.........

 

[BarryL]

What is it were looking for? Equal weight under the front rest and the rear bag?

 

[Preacher]

Thats it !!!
If more info is needed contact Clay Spencer in Va.

 

[Cheechako]

What is it were looking for? Equal weight under the front rest and the rear bag?

Barry

Much depends on the type of Benchrest rifle you are building. On a long range light rifle,17 pounds) it is very difficult,impossible)to get that kind of balance with a HV or HV Max countour barrel and 30" length. The barrel alone may be half of the total weight and a 70% - 30% split is more likely the result.

The same will hold true for point-blank rifles, only to a lesser extent.

But I'm not sure that you could ever get a 50/50 split, nor do I think you would want it.

JMHO

Ray

 

[BarryL]

I do 1K with the light gun. I could see the need if shooting free recoil but I dont. Smooth and straight tracking I would think the most important, which I have had problems with but am working on.