| Preparing
for the Test:
If you are doing pistol tests and you
need to remove the human element from the equation, you need to use a Ransom
Rest. The trouble with that requirement is that I am most
decidedly not independently wealthy, and at $346.50 + inserts and
freight, a new Ransom Rest was a tough pill to swallow. Fortunately for
me, I stumbled across a used rest for sale and snapped it up ($250.00
shipped including a set of T/C Contender inserts... Thanks Jack!  ).
I ordered the Glock 22 inserts ($53.27 shipped) from Ransom directly.
When both the rest and inserts arrived, I
made a trip to Orchard Supply Hardware to pick up the materials for the
Ransom Rest mounting base ($74.85). It took most of a day to construct
the base, but it is very solid, heavy, and a custom fit for the shooting
bench at my range (requiring a special trip for dimensions).
Here are a couple of pictures I made to
document the construction.
The base is constructed of double
thickness 3/4" MDF laminated with wood glue and clamps on edges and
300 pounds in the center section. On the front and rear edges,
1"x2" red oak strips were added in I-beam fashion to decrease
the bearing surface of the base to bench mount (to compensate for
possible imperfections in the bench top).
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The rest ships with 11 brass wood screws
to secure the rest to the base. I wanted something more substantial, so I
chose #10 x 24 tpi x 1-1/2" machine screws, 3/16" washers, lock washers,
and hex nuts. It required a lot of pre-drilling, but the result was worth the effort.
See below:
The rest is definitely not going
anywhere! Equally well-secured are the end strips which are secured to the base
panels with stainless steel deck screws and glue.
And
then?
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