What Kind Of Front Rests For F-Class

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SGJennings

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I've got a bud that's interested in long-range formats including F-Class. I shoot short range score and don't know diddly about F-Class.

He's having a custom windage rest built. It seems to me that it'd be disruptive to reach all the way up to the windage knob. Is that the case or will be be OK with the windage rest?
 
You are right. It is difficult to reach the windage knob on most front rests. Most of the shooters that used front rests at the Arizona Long Range shoot last weekend used either bipods or joy stick type rests. I am very new at F-class and struggled with the front frst because it is hard to reach. Need to try a bipod or joystick next. Don
 
I shoot quite a bit of F-Class, at least two matches a month, I have yet to see more than one or two Joystick rests on the line ever. To shoot a Bipod when a rest is allowed in like F open would be a handicap I feel. Your string for record shots are shot pretty quickly, I shoot my sighters and shots for score in right around 5 Minutes. In doing that you need a rifle that tracks well and you are not always messing around with windage or elevation changes. This only causes or "CAN" cause mistakes that you just cannot afford and be competitive.

Bob Pastor built my F-Class rest. One of the most important things you need on any F-Class rest is a stable footing. Bob's F-Class feet are a must to give you a solid foundation on the uneven ground we shoot F-Class off of. I also prefer a heavy rest as I do not wanting it moving around.

Set your rest up correctly and get your rear bag position correct and don't worry about gadgets. Bipods are for F/TR and using one in F-Open would be a mistake I think.

Roland
 

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say Don I know you and you should

1. buy the rempel bipod and use it for a year and then decide, trust me I have helped you before


do a search as he is in Calagary Alberta and can ship to the USA it will be about 500 beans including shipping for you to your door


later Jeff
 
Hombre0321 said:
I shoot quite a bit of F-Class, at least two matches a month, I have yet to see more than one or two Joystick rests on the line ever. To shoot a Bipod when a rest is allowed in like F open would be a handicap I feel. Your string for record shots are shot pretty quickly, I shoot my sighters and shots for score in right around 5 Minutes. In doing that you need a rifle that tracks well and you are not always messing around with windage or elevation changes. This only causes or "CAN" cause mistakes that you just cannot afford and be competitive.

Bob Pastor built my F-Class rest. One of the most important things you need on any F-Class rest is a stable footing. Bob's F-Class feet are a must to give you a solid foundation on the uneven ground we shoot F-Class off of. I also prefer a heavy rest as I do not wanting it moving around.

Set your rest up correctly and get your rear bag position correct and don'e worry about gadgets. Bipods are for F/TR and using one in F-Open would be a mistake I think.

Roland
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Bob has the TRIPOD RESTS AS PICTURED on order but they will be 3-4 months before they are in stock as I just ordered one last week from him, the other types he makes should be available Jeff
 
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one would need to know

1. the length of stock (it makes a difference of about 4 inches on some longer stocks)

2. the type of rest he will be using (3-4 inch difference)

3. the length of his arms (gee who would have thought)

so he better have a good look at what he is getting into and lay on the floor or ground before finalizing his purchase is he is cash strapped

Jefferson
 
Looks like you want a panned and simple answer. There is no need at all for a windage rest in F-Class, but if he thinks that the only way he can shoot is with one, or if he just likes gadgets, then he should get it.

Your question however is "Help me out here guys, is my bud going to have trouble turning knobs on that windage rest or no? "

The answer is yes he will have some trouble with it. In the least he will "Probably" need to break his shooting position to reach the knobs "Probably". When this happens he will then need to rebuild that position before he breaks the shot, forget the fact that while he doing all of this squirming around the wind is going to be doing it's thing, so he may then need to squirm back up there to make that correction. You see the problems with this scenero?

Roland
 
You're pretty smart hombre. Most FClass shooters have short arms. They need to get out of firing position to adjust their rests. Joking of course. 99% of shooters have arms that are too short to adjust their rest without getting out of their firing position.
 
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I have a Shadetree joystick rest on a very good "no-name" base. I like it a lot for F-class and bench rest both. I also use a Protektor Doctor bag with a handle and have a hole cut in my mat for that. I use that bag for bench rest too. I have a windage top for the same rest but I quickly gravitated to using that only on the bench. I leave the joystick top with a Edgewood bag set up for 3 inch forends and have my other bags on velcro for the windage top which I use with anything with a smaller forend.
 
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My advice is to get the highest quality you can afford. After three different rests, I'm now using a Sinclair Competition front rest. The quality is outstanding, the windge adjustments are easy to get to. I really like it.
 
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