The Stable Table, the $249 one, is a tripod. The way it works is that when you sit in the seat it locks it all up rigid. To swivel the top you loosen a wing nut under the table and turn it. Or, you can loosen the wing nut at the base and relieve your weight on the seat to rotate the whole thing. One of the tripod legs also has a wingnut on it that allows decent level adjustment. Again, it is surprisingly stable for a portable bench. And even at the regular price vs the cost of lumber and materials and gas money to go get it all, Amazon would probably deliver the thing to your door. In fact I just looked and saw it priced at $212.
One thing about it. The Caldwell Stinger feet are kinda slippery on the reinforced plastic table top and with each shot, even a .25 M-Rod, the rifle Stinger rest tends to walk backwards, so then I scooch back and pretty soon I did a somersault off the bench and my wife spit up her cocktail and choked
. So be warned, the seat has no back! I am probably going to get a piece of hardwood and make a .5X.5 strip and screw it to the top all the way aft to act as a stop. Shooting my several .45-70 Marlin 1895 rifles with Level 2 Marlin "Bear" loads, close to 3,500 fpe, I need some sort of stop to keep me from going flying. It is surprising how much my lightweight .25 M-Rod (aluminum tubes and other stuff) will walk back, there is recoil! Another possibility would be to pop rivet or screw a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet to the top surface to provide more traction.
I do agree that an Arca type head and a good tripod and a camp stool can be surprisingly good. Last year I bought one of those pop up tent blinds at Walmart on close out for like $50. I can get inside the blind with my tripod set up and stool and snipe away at pesky HOSPs, raccoons, whatnot, and they never figure out where I am or what is going on as their buddies explode.
Edit to add, I was reading through some of the reviews, most are five stars but a few complained, for example, one fellow with a bolt action rifle was removing the bolt to sight through the bore while standing. His complaint was that the table was not stable because then when he sat down on the seat, the bore axis was misaligned! Of course it was, the Stable Table, as I noted before, it is the human component that locks the table solid. There is no substitute for a concrete bench.
One thing about it. The Caldwell Stinger feet are kinda slippery on the reinforced plastic table top and with each shot, even a .25 M-Rod, the rifle Stinger rest tends to walk backwards, so then I scooch back and pretty soon I did a somersault off the bench and my wife spit up her cocktail and choked
. So be warned, the seat has no back! I am probably going to get a piece of hardwood and make a .5X.5 strip and screw it to the top all the way aft to act as a stop. Shooting my several .45-70 Marlin 1895 rifles with Level 2 Marlin "Bear" loads, close to 3,500 fpe, I need some sort of stop to keep me from going flying. It is surprising how much my lightweight .25 M-Rod (aluminum tubes and other stuff) will walk back, there is recoil! Another possibility would be to pop rivet or screw a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet to the top surface to provide more traction.I do agree that an Arca type head and a good tripod and a camp stool can be surprisingly good. Last year I bought one of those pop up tent blinds at Walmart on close out for like $50. I can get inside the blind with my tripod set up and stool and snipe away at pesky HOSPs, raccoons, whatnot, and they never figure out where I am or what is going on as their buddies explode.
Edit to add, I was reading through some of the reviews, most are five stars but a few complained, for example, one fellow with a bolt action rifle was removing the bolt to sight through the bore while standing. His complaint was that the table was not stable because then when he sat down on the seat, the bore axis was misaligned! Of course it was, the Stable Table, as I noted before, it is the human component that locks the table solid. There is no substitute for a concrete bench
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