shooting tactical stocks off a rest

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I'm shooting a savage with the factory sporter stock on it right now (bedded)

When doing load developoment I find that the skinny forend is very unstable in the bag of my front pedestal rest and I am getting frusterated with the movement.

I'm still working on getting my shooting technique and setup ironed out, and it makes it difficult to evaluate accuracy if its my movement thats the problem!

My question is how well do the tactical style stocks work off a front pedestal rest and rear sandbag? It seems most of them have about a 2 1/2 inch wide fore end with a flat oval type profile. I was looking at the Choate and it seems pretty nice for the money.

I am also considering buying a full out benchrest stock with the 3 inch flat forearm, but this is pretty specialized and would keep my uses for the rifle somewhat limited.. I like to go groundhog hunting and shoot from field positions too.

Do you give up a lot going from a benchrest stock to a tactical when shooting off a rest?
 
No offense but when you go hunting or real life shooting will you be using your front pedestal and rear bag? Sorry but learn to shoot off a bipod or what ever. Shoot 100 yards focus on trigger control side to side sight picture and follow through. If you want to shoot in the real world buying a benchrest stock will just make you a bench shooter. Just practice and have fun.
 
-Sinclair used to make (not sure if they still do) a plastic deal that clamped to sporter stocks and rode a 3" bag quite well.

-I've made a little "pillow" sand bag, about 4x8", with a seam in the middle, that wraps onto sporter stocks not too bad in a 2.5 or 3" rest.

-IMO you're on the right track - use benchrest style equipment and technique for working up loads.
 
Bingo! thanks for the idea Dmay. Sinclair does indeed sell the thing, its called the forend benchrest adaptor, for $36. I googled it and folks say it works pretty well. I think I may have to order one. Come to think of it I've seen it mentioned around here before.

And yes, I think that makes sense to shoot benchrest style and equipment for load development. For me it would be the best way to remove as much human error as possible.

Then after the rifle can put them all in one hole I hope to learn the art of shooting them into one hole off a bipod.

My original plan was to either use the tactical stock for both uses, or to use a benchrest stock for the development and switch to my factory stock for the bipod.

I think it will be stiffen the factory stock with steel rods and epoxy, and use it both with the adaptor and then later witha bipod. Shooter on a budget here!
 
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