Simply The best Gun or Rifle Rest for the Shooting Range

 You can ask any rifle shooter, what the one item is, they simply will not go to the shooting range without, and rest assured they would tell you, a rock solid gun rest. The same is true for a turkey hunter, which is setting up a shotgun for turkey hunting. The teeth rattling recoil of today's hard hitting, extended range turkey guns, require the shooter to take careful aim, and not point the gun, as our grandfathers did back in the day. The whitetail deer hunter that uses a high-powered rifle or slug gun, target shooter, and turkey hunters, ammunition is quite expensive these days, and a shooter or hunter simply does not want to waste a single round of it. Look at it another way, simply the best gun rest for the shooting range saves a shooter, time, money, and the wear and tear on their body.

Going to the shooting range, for a lot of us, means it is time to sight in our deer hunting rifles, slug guns, muzzleloaders, and turkey hunting shotguns, where we use the shooting bench. What we need to bring with us, is the best gun rest we can find, that holds our rifles or shotguns steady while we shoot. The best gun rest will reduce the recoil we feel while shooting, high-powered rifles, muzzleloaders and shotguns, makes shooting more like fun, than misery. For the shooters that have spent the better part of a day trying to find a load their muzzleloader, shotgun or rifle likes, will appreciate.

I am reminded of the time, when a good friend of mine and I went to Red Brush, our favorite local shooting range. I had just become the prod owner of a new T/c Pro-Hunter 50 cal. Muzzleloader rifle. After talking with one of the guys from T/c, I learned a little trick on how to season the bore of my 50 cal. Muzzleloader to ensure optimum accuracy.

Taking care to Load my 50-caliber T/C encore muzzleloader with 50 grains of 2f Pyrodex granulated powder, no pellets, and a 50 cal. Lead buffalo bullet lubricated with bore butter.

My friend and I took turns loading the black powder rifle, resting it in my Caldwell Lead Sled gun rest, and fire, dry patch the bore, reload and repeat the firing process, fifty plus times.

At first we held the rifle firmly too our shoulder out of habit, but the lead sled gun rest absorbed the recoil, making the load we were shooting feel like the recoil from a ,22 rim fire rifle. Therefore, before it was all over we just set the T/C pro-hunter in the lead sled and touched it off, where the rifle hardly moved.

Before the day was done, we had my pro-hunter dialed in at 200 yards, shooting 110 grains of Pyrodex, which has a pretty good thump to it, the Caldwell lead sled gun rest worked great and tamed the recoil more than I would have believed it would. We went on to set-up eight other deer rifles, slug guns and shotguns set-up for fall turkey season that day using the Caldwell lead sled and went home without a bruise, sore neck or shoulder.

Oh by the way, we did make a few new friends that day at the shooting range; everyone that borrowed the Caldwell lead sled gun rest was impressed by the way, it worked.

Remember check your sights before your next hunt. Mike

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