shooting benches

[markT]

Been trying to upload this. Finally able.
The legs go down in the soil (caliche) easily for added stability.

 

[xring]

One thing about portable benches, the good ones will be large enough to where your rear bag will not be falling off on the ground, and even more important, wide enough to where your elbow will have support. If your elbow is flopping in the breeze, so is your crosshair.

Ack . , I think you are right . I tried to Add the following to my original Post , but it would not take . If someone could mate the Rockwell Tools Base with a detachable thick Plywood Top , that would be a very neat set-up .

 

[AckleymanII]

Mark, that is a great table!!!!

I added two handles on the front and one on the back to help carry it around.

 

[markT]

AckleymanII, thank you sir.. I will admit it works really well.. light weight, stable easily collapsible.. the sandwich construction is amazingly strong..
The way the legs fold in and the one side is cut out for the shooter..the folded legs act as a handle.. easy to carry. We sometimes carry erected, but only a short distance..

 

[Two Flints]

I was looking for a minimalist solution for my air gun field shooting and hunting. Originally, I made my own shooting table and had various types of rifle rests that I was using on my shooting table. Problem was carrying all that gear into the woods for hunting or to my local range for the shooting I wanted to do. All that gear meant too much weight to carry in and out.

So I began looking for alternatives to my current shooting table set up. After searching the Internet for several months, I settled on the Idleback Shooting Chair, made in England and completely self-contained and not heavy at all. It actually has three different sections or pieces that fit together. First you have the legs, then the rifle rest with attached round seat, and finally the arm or rifle butt rest. The Idleback is a solid piece of equipment. Weighs about 24 pounds and you can sling it over your shoulder and carry it in or out from your shooting spot.

The round seat (or available saddle seat if you prefer that style) swivels or rotates a full 360 degrees and the swivel is adjustable to your preferred rotating speed. The rotation is very smooth. Adjustability is unique to the Idleback Shooting Chair. It has adjustable feet (up & down); an adjustable gun rest; and an adjustable arm or rifle butt rest; and an adjustable back rest. And, the arm/rifle butt rest can be attached to accommodate a left or right hand shooter.

Here is my Idleback Chair with the three main sections attached together:

 

[markT]

Twoflints
I used to shoot a lot of air rifles... mostly pest control from inside my house.. but for a field app. I would say what you have is darn near perfect..

 

[deepwater]

Twoflints
I used to shoot a lot of air rifles... mostly pest control from inside my house.. but for a field app. I would say what you have is darn near perfect..

Twoflints,

Where do you keep your ammo and fired brass? I can imagine a vest and/or a bucket to drop empty brass. Still, seems a little cramped. The product seems very well made and thought out.

 

[Two Flints]

I haven't installed a tray that fits to the front of the rifle rest arm. The tray will hold ammo; I think I prefer my fly fishing vest with multiple pockets to hold whatever I need when using the Idleback chair.

 

[Laser Man]

This may be an old thread, but you may still be looking for that portable shooting bench. Here's my contribution.
I bought this swivel shooting bench at Cabela’s about ten years ago. Since then I’ve modified it several times, You can see I added tires and a handle to pull it around. Put a lighter colored cover on it to eliminate the heat produced by the black vinyl cover. I also mounted an extension to accommodate longer guns. It’s lightweight(30#) and pulls quite easily. Recently, I used it in a large prairie dog town, and pulled it about one and one half miles. By the way, I’m 73 years old. One suggestion, use tires that don’t have tubes in them(foam filled). Cactus can ruin a good hunt. Hope this helps. By the way, if you get a chance, check out https://lettersfromlaser.blogspot.com/

 

[bobke]

Built this one with screw in pipe legs and repurposed Corian countertops. Heavy enough to be stable, and still portable.

 

[searcher]

I bought one of the Caldwell rotating tables years back. It has the plastic injection molded top on it, to which I added a reinforced plywood top that extended out further so I could put my joystick rest on it, a gator bag in the rear, room for a 25lb sandbag to help steady it even more when the wind is blowing. After hours of shooting sessions without back support, my old back started hurting, so replaced the round pad with a bass boat folding seat I bought online for $40.00. It has proved to be an inexpensive, yet very effective setup. I also installed a 4' umbrella to it which works great until the wind starts blowing - so is pretty worthless when the wind blows - which is usually when needed most - in the heat of the afternoon. Folks considering buying one will want to be sure they have at least some storage space to put it - and it takes up a fair amount of space in the truck - especially when a buddy comes who also has one. Gets to where having a dedicated trailer would make a lot of sense.