Bench testing tip

[FrankG]

Great thread. I understood that a springer had to be un-clamped because it was supposed to move to absorb the spring shock. If I can zero it by clamping life would be a lot easier.

[Richard Potter]

Sometimes i cant see the wood for the trees, what a great collection of idea's .

[philpot]

Some interesting ideas but one to be aware of is when using a Deben bench shooting rest, the rifle can over balance which happened to me, some rifle scopes are very heavy making the rifle top heavy and the slightest degree out of centre can have the gun over. I found all kinds of new swear words when that happened to me.

Phil

[pjgtech]

Some interesting ideas but one to be aware of is when using a Deben bench shooting rest, the rifle can over balance which happened to me, some rifle scopes are very heavy making the rifle top heavy and the slightest degree out of centre can have the gun over. I found all kinds of new swear words when that happened to me.

Phil

I have been bags, plus bench rest type rest, plus two small tripods, plus trigger sticks.

[Frog]

Great thread. I understood that a springer had to be un-clamped because it was supposed to move to absorb the spring shock. If I can zero it by clamping life would be a lot easier.

You thought right - you can not zero a springer by clamping it! The clamp idea the OP posted is I think just a simple way of safely resting the rifle between shots - a bit like 10m target air rifles sometimes have a bipod attached even though they are shot standing.