Bipod/bags/led sled? For development??

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What do you find best for load development,groups?Bipod and rear bag? Front and rear bags? Or a led sled?
I find the front and rear sandbags work good ,but it's just not high enough, (what I have access to ).
 
I find,with bags,I'm leaning over to much. I'd need about 2 ft high bags,to be sitting up straight. I think the bench is too low( home made jobby at the range).
 
Slamfire said:
The use of a led sled or the like will increase the risk of a cracked stock if your round is a heavy kicker.
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And the opportunity for a bewgerred up scope too.

I've been tempted to alter the rear portfolio of the sled to allow the
rifle to rest against my shoulder.

Leadsleds are uncomfortable to shoot from, least in my experience.
 
I use the MTM Shoulder Guard Rest (but I don't use the recoil-reduction sling). Ditched the sandbags years ago -
http://www.mtmcase-gard.com/products/shooting/shooting-rests-sgr.php

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I was using The Rock rest and rear bags from Calwell and then tried a Caldwell tack driver bag with rear bags and never looked back.
As far as you needing higher bags I would lower your seat or raise your bench, My benches are at least 36" above ground.
I am not around the range to measure. When I sit the top of the bench is at mid chest.

David
 
6MT said:
I try and load test the same way as I shoot.
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your rifle harmonics will change depending on how you shoot it, this will also effect how accurate it is or isn't. Also sighting in a hunting rifle in a solid rest and then confirming it with an offhand shot or two will show how far from sighted in you really were......I sight my hunting rifle in shooting over a packsack filled with a couple of hoodies to simulate a tree stump, I could get a truck hood into where I hunt but it would be one hell of a drag
 
I like the bipod and rear bag , maybe. Is there a good rear bag available? I guess it would have to be thick (high) enough,to account for a 9 inch bipod.

Not sure if I'll be using this gun for Moose hunting,this year. Might be just for target shooting.
 
We use bipods on all our rifles. A rear bag or something to rest the butt stock on is all that is required at the range. Normally I shoot off a round bale and just move the rifle forward so that the bipod is over the curve of the round bale and the butt stock rests on the bale. The bipods stay on the rifles so this shooting is similar to in the field. In fact I shot a coyote yesterday off the round bale pile. :)
 
yodave said:
best answer of the day.......

your rifle harmonics will change depending on how you shoot it, this will also effect how accurate it is or isn't. Also sighting in a hunting rifle in a solid rest and then confirming it with an offhand shot or two will show how far from sighted in you really were......I sight my hunting rifle in shooting over a packsack filled with a couple of hoodies to simulate a tree stump, I could get a truck hood into where I hunt but it would be one hell of a drag
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Shouldn't a properly bedded rifle/floated barrel shoot the same regardless of how its held/rested? And if this is for load development, doesn't it make sense to use the most stable way you've got? (Your point has merit when it comes to sighting in a scope, especially the part about actually trying to shoot from field positions and not just assuming your rested rifle shoots to the same poi)
 
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