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Zundel257

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Does anyone know who sells rubber doughnutss for rear bags? All I can find are the suede ones.
 
Not to steal the thread, but how well do the rubber donuts work? I use a Skipp Otto suede one and I love it. I saw the rubber ones at Ron Hoehn's one day after shooting a match, and wish I would have bought it. I think the rubber would work great. How good does it grab on wood?

I found Accura web site a few months ago, and have been meanig on ordering one, just was wondering how good they are?
http://www.benchrest.com/accura/
 
Zundel257 said:
Does anyone know who sells rubber doughnutss for rear bags? All I can find are the suede ones.
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Jeff,
Avoid a rubber donut stabilizer like the plague! You will get a ton of side-to-side roll with the rubber donut, causing you to pull your hair out by your gun no longer shooting well... (I tried to skip the rubber donut I was previously using off the pond at Kelbly's w/o any luck... It's all in the wrist I guess...?)
Buy a Skip Otto suede donut. Fill-it up with as much Zircon sand as you can. Seal the flap closed with crazy glue (PS advertiser) and enjoy shooting great groups!
If you're shooting match at a range with slick Bench tops i.e. St. Louis, thoroughly wet your suede donut the morning of your match and it will grip the bench top like glue (or like Dave Coots holding a cold Pabst Blue Ribbon beer!)
Preventing your rear-bag from slipping as your rifle recoils will help prevent many of the dumb, unexplainable lost shots, allowing you to shoot better aggs!
Hope that helps!
Jack
 
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Thanks Jack.

It is funny you mentioned St Louis, I was thinking about there when I asked the question. They have got to have the slickest tops around! :)
At the 600 IBS nationals I would take my water pour it on my hand and wipe the top down where my bag sat before placing my bag down. I got some funny looks I must say. It did help, but they was still slick.
 
I use a piece of 1/2 or 3/4 inch plywood the same size as the bottom of my back and I put the self sticking 60 or 80 grit sand paper on both sides of it.
AS far as I know this is legal. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Going to be shooting a registered match this weekend and dont want to be DQd for something minor and stupid.
I need the plywood mainly to raise my back bag because it is not tall enough to work with my front rest and stock.
 
Jack Neary said:
Jeff,
Avoid a rubber donut stabilizer like the plague! You will get a ton of side-to-side roll with the rubber donut, causing you to pull your hair out by your gun no longer shooting well... (I tried to skip the rubber donut I was previously using off the pond at Kelbly's w/o any luck... It's all in the wrist I guess...?)
Buy a Skip Otto suede donut. Fill-it up with as much Zircon sand as you can. Seal the flap closed with crazy glue (PS advertiser) and enjoy shooting great groups!
If you're shooting match at a range with slick Bench tops i.e. St. Louis, thoroughly wet your suede donut the morning of your match and it will grip the bench top like glue (or like Dave Coots holding a cold Pabst Blue Ribbon beer!)
Preventing your rear-bag from slipping as your rifle recoils will help prevent many of the dumb, unexplainable lost shots, allowing you to shoot better aggs!
Hope that helps!
Jack
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Jack, thank you..

Does this include Dave Dohrmann's stackable donuts?

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I have had all three. I traded a friend a favor for my Otto ring because it did not fit the bag that I was using. Larger ones are available, so I may have to give one a chance under my Edgewood. I have one of Dohrmann's cloth over leather bag sets, that I have not gotten much shooting time on, but after my other rubber experience, the first thing that I did was check to see if the single (not stacked) spacer had any bounce problems. It does not seem to, and the bag, that Dave shipped filled, at my request, damps empty chamber dry fire vibration to nothing, something that my other bag doesn't do.

One story about the stack, Dave traded into a really fancy front rest, took it to the Super Shoot and found that it was too tall for his stock and the range. Evidently he had to make a pretty tall stack of his spacers, and according to him did some good shooting off of it, that probably would have been impossible if it was causing roll bounce. The materials and construction of his spacers are significantly different than the Dunrud. Dave's were cut from flat, high durameter Neoprene. I believe the other product is molded. and has a different cross section. Luckily, my front rest is low enough, so I don't need a stack.
 
ok, I got the otto. It is filled and i used it today. still trying to figure out how to shoot tight groups in the 20 mph winds i had today though....
 
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