Anyone use a Lead Sled?

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jheitertusa

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I was looking for a good shooting rest for my 12 gauge slug gun and my muzzleloader.

I was wondering if anyone had experience with the Lead Sled, pros/cons?

Was it durable?
 
A buddy of mine has one. But he uses it on the smaller rifle calibers such as 223, 22-250, and 243. He let me try it...a VERY steady rest that is easy to adjust for both windage and elevation. I'm thinking of getting one for load development though I have seen write-ups that claim, in effect, a given load may group differently shot from the rest as opposed to shooting from a bag because the rest may affect recoil. But I don't know. Just my $0.02.
 
Yeah they are a great rest, my folks got me one for christmas last year and now i don't even think about going to the range without it. they are even better if you add about 40 pounds to it, my buddies 300 win. mag doesn't even make it twitch.
for sure spend the money on one...
 
I borrowed one from a friend to sight in my .300 WM. It really reduced recoil, I sighted in my gun and thought since I had it I might as well sight in my .338 WM. This was after last years hunting season. At the start of this year I checked zero and both my guns shot to the left by three inches. I find it kinda odd that they both were out by the same amount. With the lead sled I was spot on.

I'm not sure why it worked out the way it did or what I did wrong. I was shooting at 100 yards from a spot level with the target.

The one I used seem to be built good. The up/down adjustment screw was weak, I'm not sure how much abuse the sled had seen but that seemed to be the weak part, which would be an easy fix.


Indy.
 
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the lead sleds work well, but you do not want to use them continuously with your firearms. The recoil of your gun is meant to travel through the stock and be dispersed into you the shooter. if your stock/gun is forced to absord the recoil continuously then things like cracks in the stock will develop. also the issue with your scope being off is related to you the shooter and how you flinch. each person shoots differently and when you zero a scope for one person it may not be zero for another even though it is on the same gun shooting the same loads.

your lead sled just takes the shooter out of the equation.

I have one of the origianl models and love it for load work up on my ultra mags and my 416 rigby. only problem I had was when I tried to put my surgeon in .338 lapua in the rig it would not fit, but this was due to the design of the buttstock being too wide. my rem 700 in .338 lapua with a mcmillan a5 stock fits fine as do all my other guns.

JOE
 
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