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Offline JDHasty

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2016, 11:44:13 AM »
Metal collapsing saw horses and a ply wood top with a one inch thick steel plate on top of that for weight works pretty well.....it's not fancy and is not shooting specific but it works

Do you transport it about on a caisson?

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2016, 12:09:10 PM »
Metal collapsing saw horses and a ply wood top with a one inch thick steel plate on top of that for weight works pretty well.....it's not fancy and is not shooting specific but it works

Do you transport it about on a caisson?

I just pick it up and pack it, maybe your a 1/4 inch guy  :dunno:  :chuckle: just kidding


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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2016, 05:02:10 PM »
Not sure where you guys are buying your material for a $50 - $ 75 budget?  Just finished buying the material and build is in progress.  I have a start of partial material for two but pricing material for one.  Maybe my math is bad? 
1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood - $18.00; Three 1/4x4x4" plates - $6.50; Three 34" x 1" black pipe ' $26.00; Three 1" couplings - $9.50; Twelve 1/4" x 2" carriage bolts, nuts, lock washers - $5.00;  Box of screws - $5.00; Quart spar finish - $18.00.  $90 in round figures and I drop a size on pipe legs and bolts.  That doesn't start the welding, cutting blades, etc.  I'm thinking $150 is a fair price if you had to buy it.   I'll be keeping this one more secure since my last one was stolen.
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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2016, 07:11:14 PM »
Not sure where you guys are buying your material for a $50 - $ 75 budget?  Just finished buying the material and build is in progress.  I have a start of partial material for two but pricing material for one.  Maybe my math is bad? 
1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood - $18.00; Three 1/4x4x4" plates - $6.50; Three 34" x 1" black pipe ' $26.00; Three 1" couplings - $9.50; Twelve 1/4" x 2" carriage bolts, nuts, lock washers - $5.00;  Box of screws - $5.00; Quart spar finish - $18.00.  $90 in round figures and I drop a size on pipe legs and bolts.  That doesn't start the welding, cutting blades, etc.  I'm thinking $150 is a fair price if you had to buy it.   I'll be keeping this one more secure since my last one was stolen.

You just nailed it, partner. 

But I have never seen a bench for sale that was worth a hoot for south of a buck fifty and only barely adequate until you are in three bills.  You can build perfectly usable and rock solid bench for something like a hundred, although you have to dig around a bit and use trailer leveling blocks and ramps to level them up.  Materials, welding, hardware etc for mine run ~ $350 and I get my plywood free of charge.     

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2016, 09:33:42 PM »
Finally finished mine after deciding on the Larry Willis plans and looking at this thread..

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2016, 10:17:08 PM »
Tag I am going to build one of these.
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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2016, 01:33:57 PM »
Tag I am going to build one of these.
Here's another link that might help you.  I sorta followed it..

http://www.portercalls.com/portable_shooting_bench.htm

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2016, 02:11:30 PM »
Hmmmmmmmmmm nice. :tup:
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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2016, 10:12:56 AM »
Hmmmmm indeed, that looks great 87ford! Thanks for the link and pics!  :tup:

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #24 on: June 13, 2016, 10:27:51 AM »
Great looking benches guys. 

I am working on a lighter weight bench design that will be packable, yet solid & stable.  As it develops it I will post on it.  I want something that gives me more than Harris Bi-pods that we can pack in a half mile and set up. 

I haven't set up my benches yet this year.  I have been shooting the Hornets, 22 & 17, off Harris S Type Bi-pods and have done pretty well so far as far as the count goes.  The colonies I have visited offer longer range, like 350 - 500 yard shooting, have been so meager that I haven't shot them so far this year.  Not that I have suffered any though, I have shot close to two-hundred chucks already this year.  I have a trip up north planned and that colony is thriving so I will finally shooting the 22-250s & 243s a bit. 

   

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2017, 09:54:29 PM »
More Shooting Bench info......

Knocked out this bench this evening - credit plans from "stiffneck" on predatormasters. 


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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2017, 10:00:20 PM »
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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #27 on: February 22, 2017, 09:42:55 AM »
More Shooting Bench info......

Knocked out this bench this evening - credit plans from "stiffneck" on predatormasters.

no lefty friends, eh?   ;) :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #28 on: February 22, 2017, 09:46:23 AM »
More Shooting Bench info......

Knocked out this bench this evening - credit plans from "stiffneck" on predatormasters.

no lefty friends, eh?   ;) :chuckle: :chuckle:
I know you were joking but on a serious note.  You could in theory undo the 12 bolts holding the legs and flip it over for lefty use, correct?
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Re: Take down shooting bench plans or design
« Reply #29 on: February 23, 2017, 07:07:13 AM »
More Shooting Bench info......

Knocked out this bench this evening - credit plans from "stiffneck" on predatormasters.

no lefty friends, eh?   ;) :chuckle: :chuckle:
I know you were joking but on a serious note.  You could in theory undo the 12 bolts holding the legs and flip it over for lefty use, correct?

On ours: Bridget is left eye dominant, so she is using the first bench I built.  It is ambidextrous, I think that using stove bolts the sockets could be swapped to the other side of our other three benches, but I will purpose build her a LH bench.  They are more stable if not ambidextrous.

 


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