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Section 6: Rifles Subject: 358W Custom Msg# 970734
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Your early one sounds like the one in the NRA Gunsmithing book! Your later one is really a work of art, though. I've always thought in order to good work you need good tools. In my case, if they are homemade, they aren't pretty, but they are sturdy and they work. Just as a for instance, most benchrests are too short from seat to benchtop. Since I was going to necessarily have a fixed height, I was careful to make the distsance between the two great enough that I could practically sit up straight--it's almost like shooting offhand from the waist up. That really makes it a lot more comfortable to shoot loudenboomers off the bench, as you can get the buttstock in your shoulder pocket rather than practically resting it against the top of your shoulder as some fixed benches force one to do. 
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I can relate to that. My first checkering cradle was a three legged bench with a single 4"x4" at the front. I mounted a vise on the end of the 4x4 to hold the cradle. Had a seat you sat on straddling the bench. Worked surprising well. It was a copy of one shown in Monty Kennedy's book, checkering and carving gunstocks. When I got serious about building stocks I came up with the one in the picture. Frank |
