hporter
Active Member
A couple days ago I sat down at a shooting bench with a bunch of 38 S&W and 44 Special loads to chronograph and group. In 40+ years of shooting revolvers, I have only shot them from a bench maybe a handful of times.
With the 44 special loads, I had loaded 10 rounds each of a bunch of different SWC and WC bullets with the same powder charge. I wanted to compare and contrast the differences in groups and in POA/POI between my Ruger Flattop 5-1/2" and my Ruger Vaquero Sheriff with it's 3-3/4" barrel. Rather than shoot offhand, I thought I would shoot from a steady bench (mostly because I didn't trust myself not to blow my chronograph to smithereens shooting offhand).
I had my good rifle rest with me, but I did not want to get powder burns all over my nice leather pad. Nor did I want to lay the barrel of my revolver on the rest bare metal and no pad. The only thing that I had on hand that I was willing to sacrifice to powder burns was one of those rear rifle rest squeeze bag things.
But it was so roly-poly that it did not serve the purpose well. I ended up pulling shots so bad that my experiment was not as useful as it could have been.
So my question is, what do you expert handgun shooters use to fire your revolvers while sitting at the bench. Some sort of a rest, sand bags, technique or a combination of things? I plan on doing these types of experiments a lot more in the future as they are fun and very informative.
With the 44 special loads, I had loaded 10 rounds each of a bunch of different SWC and WC bullets with the same powder charge. I wanted to compare and contrast the differences in groups and in POA/POI between my Ruger Flattop 5-1/2" and my Ruger Vaquero Sheriff with it's 3-3/4" barrel. Rather than shoot offhand, I thought I would shoot from a steady bench (mostly because I didn't trust myself not to blow my chronograph to smithereens shooting offhand).
I had my good rifle rest with me, but I did not want to get powder burns all over my nice leather pad. Nor did I want to lay the barrel of my revolver on the rest bare metal and no pad. The only thing that I had on hand that I was willing to sacrifice to powder burns was one of those rear rifle rest squeeze bag things.
But it was so roly-poly that it did not serve the purpose well. I ended up pulling shots so bad that my experiment was not as useful as it could have been.
So my question is, what do you expert handgun shooters use to fire your revolvers while sitting at the bench. Some sort of a rest, sand bags, technique or a combination of things? I plan on doing these types of experiments a lot more in the future as they are fun and very informative.