Homemade Shooting Bench

[TonyinKY]

I found myself needing a shooting bench for the deck and in a couple of hours I was set.

I bought some weights off Craigslist awhile back and the deal just happened to have a weight bench in it that I didn't need.

I stripped everything off the bench that I didn't need. I cut the leg press mounts off and grinded them smooth.

I moved the seat support bar to the left.

The flanges that hold the bar on the uprights need to be altered. I removed the rear flanges and flattened out the front flanges. Then I grinded everything smooth. And then mounted the leg press bar to the back of the right upright.

I needed a top and I stole one from an existing rickety bench I made years ago. I countersunk the mounting bolts into the top using the front flanges and leg press bar as mounting brackets.

The seat was a little low and I thought a piece of 2X10 would support the seat better anyway.

And then I mounted some training wheels to the front.

Another view of the wheels. Lift the bench right behind the seat and you can move this with one finger.

Completed bench.

And now overlooking 15+ acres of brushy hillside.

 

[40X Guy]

Good ole American Ingenuity! Nice set up!

Frank

 

[ollie]

A little camo paint and your all set. Nice set up.

 

[jonbearman]

Necessity is the mother of all invention. Great recycling job instead of throwing it to the curb.Now every guy will be looking for old weight benches.

 

[HillbillySniper]

Nice looking set up guess you can git everything you need off craigslist! ;D

Hillbilly

 

[TheBlueEyedBear]

NICE JOB!!!
Good ole American know-how.

 

[Jim D]

I'd rate that a 10 !
Now you got me looking for a weight bench at the garage sales this Spring.
Nice work !!!
Jim

 

[jo191145]

I'm impressed. You young enough to have spent your formative years playing with Transformers? ;D

 

[Splittine]

Very nice.

 

[DCRYDER]

Very nice!!!

Can you do this to my treadmill???

 

[bowslngr]

That was really slick!

 

[Thorbird]

Now that is using the old noggin. Crap, I gave my old weight lifting set up to my nephews.

 

[rbertalotto]

Man, did that come out great!

I love going behind shopping malls early Sunday AM with my pickup truck and helping myself to all the neat steel display racks they throw out. But with the price of scrap steel so high, ya gotta get their early!

 

[TonyinKY]

TTT

 

[ebb]

cool

 

[Ccrider]

Nice. I have been thinking about how to do the exact same thing. Now I know. Great.

 

[dttheliman]

OK so now we have the "Accurate Shooter Shooting Bench Challenge" - getting tape measure and skilsaw, eying wife's unused/unloved dust covered rowing machine and stationary bike .... should be dangerous!!!

 

[Old Navy]

I found myself needing a shooting bench for the deck and in a couple of hours I was set.

I bought some weights off Craigslist awhile back and the deal just happened to have a weight bench in it that I didn't need.

I stripped everything off the bench that I didn't need. I cut the leg press mounts off and grinded them smooth.

I moved the seat support bar to the left.

The flanges that hold the bar on the uprights need to be altered. I removed the rear flanges and flattened out the front flanges. Then I grinded everything smooth. And then mounted the leg press bar to the back of the right upright.

I needed a top and I stole one from an existing rickety bench I made years ago. I countersunk the mounting bolts into the top using the front flanges and leg press bar as mounting brackets.

The seat was a little low and I thought a piece of 2X10 would support the seat better anyway.

And then I mounted some training wheels to the front.

Another view of the wheels. Lift the bench right behind the seat and you can move this with one finger.

Completed bench.

And now overlooking 15+ acres of brushy hillside.

You must be a Millwright?

 

[TonyinKY]

You must be a Millwright?

No, just a tightwad.

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

Nice job Tony!