Hello shooting enthusiasts,
This post is going to be "short and sweet" because I don't know how many other people would have a need for a benchrest target frame that is adjustable for angle so it can be mounted squarely on a hill. I had to pay for this pallet because it was under a bunch of retaining wall blocks that I bought for my shooting bench, so I figured that I should put it to good use and blow the heck out of it. Obviously, I don't care if I hit it.
Here is the pallet before I started:
Here is the design in CAD:
That is the bottom-Front view
Here is the top-back view
Here are the boards after I got all of the nails out:
Here is the first part of the frame coming together:
Sandwiching the bottom part between the two bigger boards to give big support:
Adding the last two thicker boards to be the adjustable supports. These are held into place with a 5" lag bolt going into the back large support board:
Adding the last two 1x4 boards to the supports to give it some rigidity and a place to add some weight to keep the stand from tipping over in the wind:
This shows the angling feature of this target frame:
This shows how the lag bolt is acting as the pivot, and there is another deck screw in there to put in the last inch to hold the angle in place once it is leveled to the hill:
Once put solidly in place, level the target frame:
Tighten the deck screw down to hold it in place:
I put a big log behind the target, and then added a nice little AR500 teardrop target onto it to give me something to shoot at when I don't have a target up:
Finally, here is the target frame with one of my "Print your own" targets that I will post in the targets section in a minute. I also added a distance and angle marker to it as well as a wind flag.
I hope that this helps someone out there. Happy shooting!!
This post is going to be "short and sweet" because I don't know how many other people would have a need for a benchrest target frame that is adjustable for angle so it can be mounted squarely on a hill. I had to pay for this pallet because it was under a bunch of retaining wall blocks that I bought for my shooting bench, so I figured that I should put it to good use and blow the heck out of it. Obviously, I don't care if I hit it.
Here is the pallet before I started:
Here is the design in CAD:
That is the bottom-Front view
Here is the top-back view
Here are the boards after I got all of the nails out:
Here is the first part of the frame coming together:
Sandwiching the bottom part between the two bigger boards to give big support:
Adding the last two thicker boards to be the adjustable supports. These are held into place with a 5" lag bolt going into the back large support board:
Adding the last two 1x4 boards to the supports to give it some rigidity and a place to add some weight to keep the stand from tipping over in the wind:
This shows the angling feature of this target frame:
This shows how the lag bolt is acting as the pivot, and there is another deck screw in there to put in the last inch to hold the angle in place once it is leveled to the hill:
Once put solidly in place, level the target frame:
Tighten the deck screw down to hold it in place:
I put a big log behind the target, and then added a nice little AR500 teardrop target onto it to give me something to shoot at when I don't have a target up:
Finally, here is the target frame with one of my "Print your own" targets that I will post in the targets section in a minute. I also added a distance and angle marker to it as well as a wind flag.
I hope that this helps someone out there. Happy shooting!!
