| Spring |
| (.300 member) |
| 23/05/08 05:16 AM |
Re: Lead sled and stocks
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The reason the LS is not good for use with a side by side double rifle is the rifle is not allowed to recoil UP, and to the SIDE, because the butt is jammed down into the fixture being held bottom, and both sides!
You can rest the rifle on a sand bag up front, but your hand needs to be between the rifle, and the sand bag, and gripping the for barrels. Standing or sitting at a bench is OK, but the rifle should be held in the hands, and touching only the face, and shoulder, however the back of the forehand, and the elbows can be rested on the bench. It makes no difference if the bench is a standing, or sitting, as long as the rifle doesn't touch anything other that the shooters hands, face, and shoulder! I fail to see what is so hard to understand about that!
I appreciate your thoughts, but when I see my gun shoot just the same whether on the Sled or on the sticks, I guess that's why I don't buy into all the criticism of the thing.
Possibly the reason that it's not the culprit some logic suggests is that you said a double rifle needs to be able to “recoil UP, and to the SIDE." Well, with my Lead Sled it does all of that just fine. The gun is not constrained onto the Sled in any way; it recoils upward when firing, and can flex as needed since the forend is resting in my hand when in the Sled. The Sled is simply heavier than a conventional gun rest--it just reduces (not eliminates) the gun's ability to slam back the rest as easily as it might a lighter one. Just as a larger man might have more body weight to handle recoil as compared to a child, the Sled does not stop recoil or constrain the gun's natural movement; it just handles it with greater ease.
Your thoughts on constricting barrel movement when it’s being fired certainly make sense, but knowing that the Lead Sled doesn’t do that, I’m thinking the condemnation might be a bit overblown.