Robert Webster of Hamlet, NC and myself have been shooting a Savage Mark II rimfire rifle the past couple years and doing all kinds of things to them to get as much accuracy as possible from them.  We have fulfilled our goal of being able to shoot a squirrel in the head at 50 yards; one shot one kill but still trying to squeeze a little more accuracy from them for the paper targets.

Both Robert and myself do tend to think outside the box and come up with some unusual contraptions which can be rather unorthodox at times and how radical depends on whether we recycle materials that we have on hand and try not to reinvent the wheel and in Robert's case, not spend any money!  Some will no doubt fall into the category of Rube Goldberg.  A more applicable term would be something in the neighborhood of "sticks out like a sore thumb."

With that very long introduction, Robert decided to make a one piece shooting rest to enhance his rifle groups and below is a picture of his first model we nicknamed The Gun Turret Model:

The above rest was working pretty good for Robert, whereas his target groups were much tighter than before this rest and the rest is not that radical or Rube Goldberg looking and I keep telling him, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" which is like talking to a sign post!  The front rifle rest portion is an old sock with black eyed peas stuffed into it and the base is made from recycled redwood.

Robert decided to upgrade his current one piece model rest using a car jack for the main elevation portion.  Below are some thumbnail pixs of the car jack model one piece shooting rest:

One of Robert's sons, Wesley who is an Engineer, stated "It was a high tech redneck shooting rest and before he was done, it will be spray painted gold"......grin if you must!  Notice the spring attachment for stability; nothing left to chance on this one.

Robert in defense of his car jack model rest used the term FUNCTIONALITY and it definitely is functional.  If Jeff Foxworthy sees this rest, he will no doubt add to his show routine, "You might be a redneck if, you use a car bumper jack for a shooting rest".....grin if you must!  I have other semantic words for his usage of the term functionality but in the interest of Political Correctness; e.g.,  (DC's Democratic bull crap) will not publish them since there are too many labels attached to various ethnic groups already.

Below is the full resolution of his High Tech Redneck Shooting Rest:

I told Robert I would build him a wooden box to go around the car jack for increased eye appeal! 

Web published by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 02-04-16.

THE PROOF IS IN THE TASTE OF THE PUDDING

Below is a target Robert fired on 02-06-16 at 50 yards using his CZ 452 Trainer and his new and improved Redneck One Piece Shooting Rest:

Looks like his CZ 452 and rest are doing very well!  Then again, I don't see him using those Budweiser target backers anymore either.....grin if you must!

The ole cliché, "You can't judge a book by its cover" comes to mind on his shooting rest!

Web published update by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 02-06-16.

WINDAGE ADJUSTER

Below is pix of Robert's first draft of his home made windage adjuster.  He used a piece of angle iron, drilled a hole in it, welded a 1/2 coarse thread nut to the angle bracket and installed a 1/2 x 13 threaded rod with a knob on it which he already had.

He is going to cut the adjuster rod to the proper length, bolt the adjuster angle bracket to the table and give it another field test.

Web published update by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 02-09-16.

UPDATED SHOOTING REST

Robert received some much verbal harassment from family and friends over his redneck shooting rest, he decided to do an upgraded model.

The above gun turret style shooting rest Robert made is certainly an upgrade for sure.  He has shot many one hole clusters with his CZ rimfire rifle at 50 yards!

Robert shot the below 5 shot group at 50 yards using Norma Subsonic 40 grain hollow point ammo:

Not to shabby for $ 3.99 per box of 50 rounds.

Web page updated by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 01-03-19.