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Last year when I forgot something at home and left my shooting bench at the make shift range it was gone when I returned. Now it wasn’t the best, so I am not totally bummed. What I am looking for is photos of your shooting benches (especially portable and take down). Also tell me what you like and dislike about your setup.

I would prefer wood builds but open to anything.

Show me what ya got!
 
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Not the best photo of it but built this one couple years ago. Very sturdy and great with the cutout for right hand shooters. 2 buddy’s that have used it have built copy's. Not very portable though
 

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I am considering the mtm folding bench personally. I know it will be fairly unstable compared to a fixed, or even higher quality portable setup but I mostly shoot with kids or plinking under 50 yards so rock solid bench is not a huge need.
 
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Haven’t got any pictures of it, but I made one that goes in the receiver of my truck. Sit on the tailgate. Even added a trailer jack to it for more stability.
 
I wanted a bench but did not want to buy or build anything. So I cut a 3/4" wooden top to fit on my mitresaw stand.

The specific stand I use is an old Mastercraft one and it is heavy, stable and reasonably portable. Has stood up to the elements too. I found a chair that is the right height and it is a joy to shoot from and takes a minute to set up.

My stand is similar to this model:
ww.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/mastercraft-mitre-saw-stand-with-extension-arm-0571646p.html#srp
 
Couldn't find a good photo of the one I built, but this is a part-view of it. I'd built a shooting shed on my father-in-law's property, shot there for years. The top from this bench came from the shed, I built it from 1 x 4 spruce recovered from skids and cleaned-up. When the property sold, I took this bench part and designed removable, height-adjustable legs and CNC-cut them out of Baltic Birch plywood. The legs require no tools to assemble. It was never meant to be a permanent solution, always thought I'd design/build an upgraded version. This one has worked so well that I never saw the need. I usually jam a beach umbrella into the ground beside it and tie it to the bench. I've been asked to make more of these. lol

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I use a hardware store purchased picnic table with fold up legs. Sturdy enough, carries easily by one person, lots of table room for ammo ect. I use an adjustable stack of 6x6 or 4x4 or any dimensional scrap lumber for the rifle rest
 
Thanks all. I have used all sorts of tables but want something very stable. Reason for take down is there are 4 shooters in our household and I don’t want to have to drag a trailer for all our crap to go shooting. I love the screw in legs bench in posts above but can’t seem to source them.

Looks good folks!
 
Here is my bench based on one featured by Rick Jamison in a magazine article many years ago. We had a local welder construct the leg mounts using standard black sprinkler pipe fittings. The legs are threaded sprinkler pipe.

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