Hey folks, been looking around the web and have not found much, I'd like to build a knock down shooting bench. It has to be small enough to fit in my 2009 Toyota Corolla, and light enough to obviously carry to the shooting area by one person.

There a ton of stable solid shooting benches out there but they are big and bulky, and should be left in place after built.

Any idea or help is greatly appreciated. I'm sure if I sat down and drew one up, I could come up with something, but if someone already invented the wheel in this one, I'd like to see an example.

There are plenty on the market fabricated, but I don't like plastic and aluminum for what I am involved in.

Didn't @Ron Dudelston or @Gene Howe make one of these?

What do they look like?

Musta been Ron. I have to stand to shoot. Too hard to get back up. 

11 minutes ago, Gunny said:

What do they look like?

Ron has less hair. I'm older.

Edited July 24, 20205 yr by Gene Howe

12 minutes ago, Gunny said:

What do they look like?

Here's the basic concept. And actually a pretty good knock down can be made from this.

John,

Is what you are asking about for woodworking or gun shooting?... 

Sorry, duh! For gun shooting. That could have been interpreted as some kind of Hand Plane shooting bench right!

Had me scratching my head! 

But then lately I'm easily confused! 

I acquired a used Flintlock rifle sometime back, and my son and I finally got around to shooting it this past weekend, and we loved it, this may start a new hobby for my boy and I.

Here it tis.

A Lyman Great Plains .50 Cal Flintlock

 

Here's my boy shooting it, pretty cool eh!

 

..Pretty cool Yes!!!

Maybe you could use one of the fold up workbenches like a B&D Workmate?

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Maybe you could use one of the fold up workbenches like a B&D Workmate?

Now that's not a bad idea Larry. Thanks

A good friend of mine shoots at the NMLRA national matches in Friendship IN every year, and he's won several times. He has a knockdown down that he's used as log as I've known him (30 years). It's not far from your pic. The top is a little more robust (I think he has some kind of 2x stock) and he doesn't have the cutout, it's just a straight bench. The legs are (I think 1.5" galvanized pipe that he just screws into pipe flanges on the bottom of the bench. The flanges are mounted on angled blocks of wood to provide the splay. hen he shows up at the range it takes him  about 3 minutes to get the bench set up, though every thing else (putting the scope on the rifle, getting his loading materials in place, etc.) probably take another 20 minutes.

5 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I think 1.5" galvanized pipe that he just screws into pipe flanges on the bottom of the bench.

Yep, that'll do the job! I can see a bench forming in my head right now, thanks for the tips Fred!

Those flint locks got some SERIOUS KICK.  It will leave a bruise.

Moody says that it could have been DAB.

It was  @DAB 

 

John, I could have sworn that I saw Marshal Dillon coming over that little rise.  

2 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

John, I could have sworn that I saw Marshal Dillon coming over that little rise.  

Oh he's there somewhere!

Almost made me want to don a buffalo costume and run around LOL.