Comments on: Benchrest Tip: Optimize Your Rifle Position on the Rests https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: MIke https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3209 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:46:39 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3209 I am new to this style of shooting, and I have purchased a Bald Eagle rest and I was wondering if you might be willing to shed some more light on the topic of the cable adjusted windage modification you made.

I have a son (8 years old) that started shooting in ARA .22 matches late last summer. The one big issue we have is that he is physically to small to stay seated and make his own windage adjustments. I am planning to mount the Bald Eagle to a steel base to add weight and would like to move windage adjustment to a point where he could reach it. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: mark caracci https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3208 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:19 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3208 Very good note; the same advice goes along with shooting from BIPODS. I’ve found front support adjustments along a rail system critical to reducing vertical hop especially from magnums fired off of hard ground,i.e. concrete, hard packed dirt or clay.

MarkC

]]> By: Ted https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3207 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:25 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3207 Boyd,

The rest in the picture is my wife’s rest. Her rifle was at Leroy’s shop (Johnson Precision Gunsmithing) getting some work done to it.

Jason,

You are correct that the rest is a Bald Eagle. I added the cable operation to the windage top.

The rest is used primarily for F-class. Works great….sort of in between a standard rest and a joystick without the downsides associated with either.

Ted

]]> By: Jason Baney https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3206 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:46:43 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3206 Boyd – that has to be Bill Gebhardt’s (Bald Eagle) arthritis knob I believe. Not sure if that is the name, but I know he showed me something similar at his shop almost 10 years ago.

]]> By: Boyd Allen https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3205 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:08:06 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3205 I would like to see a story on the cable operated windage top in the second picture.

Another point to add to this story…
Often I have seen rifles that were being supported in the wrong place on the forend because the owner liked the look of a forend stop. Many times a rifle will shoot better in a position that is further forward on the front bag than the unmodified front stop will allow. This is letting the tail wag the dog.

]]> By: kodiak99317 https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2014/12/benchrest-tip-optimize-your-rifle-position-on-the-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-3204 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:26:17 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=9685#comment-3204 Ome more BR tip, slide the rifle back and forth after you are happy with the bags setup. The vertical hair should track straight up and down, if it does not, adjust your rear bag again, it is not aligned right.

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