Your favorite store bought portable shooting table?

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Goldwing

Goldwing

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So whats your favorite store bought portable shooting table?

Sure are a lot of them and some as high as $1500 and as low as $50

https://beonhome.com/best-shooting-bench/



Thanks!

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That MTM bench is not bad. Actually pretty good value for the money, lightweight, easy to transport, fast set up and take down. I have one which I use in combination with a 5 gal bucket with padded seat.

The MTM bench is not the most stable. Seems to me to work better on a soft (sandy dirt) surface as opposed to a hard surface. Also works best if you keep the gun as low to the table's surface as possible (i.e.: shooting off bags instead of off something taller like a Stinger rest). Also good to have a hunting or FT type cushion available to adjust the shooter's height while mounting the rifle, as the table has no vertical adjustability.

There are more stable shooting tables out there. Table weight and design adds to stability, but reduces portability. The MTM shooting table biases towards being light weight, convenient and portable. Fine to shoot off occasionally, but I wouldn't want one as my only shooting platform. But the ones I prefer to shoot off of (Caldwell Stable Table) are much less portable.
 
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store bought? everythings store bought lol .. i know what you mean though but i like my makeshift rest so far, its a work in progress but its getting 'good' not kiddin ... couple of old speakers i was thinking of getting rid of and a salvaged piece of heavy glass .. working on a legit rear rest .. but with my sawblade 'gong' in the bushes at 60 life is good, really scatters um like cockroaches when theyre getting stupid out front lol ...

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Edit: Topic was moved from original field target area to here. 

Being as this is in the field target area..........when repetitive accuracy is the goal (like in ft) I've found that shooting from a table versus the position used during competition WILL change the impact points. And this has been true for all of the gun's I own, have owned, have reviewed, etc. When confirming dope or just generally practicing with my ft gun, shooting from the position I'll use during competition is mighty important. 

Two brief examples:

  • My USFT, when shot from a bench, is still just as accurate as when shot from Open position, but shoots to a different impact point. 
  • The Vet Long that I use for Extreme FT is VERY prone to vertically shifting the impact points, depending on where I put the shooting sticks under the gun. Part of my mental checklist before every trigger pull at a match is to check that I have the "V" of the shooting sticks in the right place (the middle of the pic rail installed in the forearm). During practice I found that I could shift average impact points an inch high at 75 yards (and worse out past that) by simply moving the location of the V on the bottom of the gun. Dope can be trusted, as long as the sticks are consistently placed. This gun is so fussy about this that I have to aim half a mil low when it is shot from offhand position and I've got me non trigger hand supporting the gun much further back than the sticks are placed for sitting shots. 


 
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My friend just picked up a dining table sized fordable table, best thing is some idiot had put it in the have to go 10 dollar bin, so he got the table at 10% of its price.

They was not happy about it, but my M8 told them to look at the CCTV, and sure enough it was there and also my M8 asking a employee if that price was really for real before he fished it out of the bin.

I guess / assume you could shoot from the table, but i think it will more be used for the HUGE RC power boats he have ( 5 foot or bigger )
 
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