Prone pad

[9146gt]

How do I determine how tall to make a prone pad for my 5906? Make one the same height as the magwell or taller?

Tom

[Action Pistolero]

Can you go prone at 25 and still get low enough to see the sights with the mag well? If not, then it needs to be taller.

Ideally, it should be tall enough to go prone at 20 on the Plates. You can easily drop a ton of points on the plates. I would set my gun up more for them than the Prac.

[Allan H]

The scientific way is to look at your profile in the mirror and measure the horizontal distance between your eyes and your waste....

Ok, just go prone at the closest distance and keep raising the gun until you can comfortably see the sights without squinting or having your eyes water. From personal experience this changes by a 1/4 inch each year.

Just remember the higher the base pad the less advantage you are getting by going prone, as once your hands are off the ground it become difficult to control the recoil, so the lower the better. Also the higher the grip, the more crap you get off your mates, and this is probably the most important thing to remember when building a base pad !!!!!

In NZ they have high base pads so they dont drown!!!

[Action Pistolero]

The scientific way is to look at your profile in the mirror and measure the horizontal distance between your eyes and your waste....

Ok, just go prone at the closest distance and keep raising the gun until you can comfortably see the sights without squinting or having your eyes water. From personal experience this changes by a 1/4 inch each year.

Just remember the higher the base pad the less advantage you are getting by going prone, as once your hands are off the ground it become difficult to control the recoil, so the lower the better. Also the higher the grip, the more crap you get off your mates, and this is probably the most important thing to remember when building a base pad !!!!!

In NZ they have high base pads so they dont drown!!!

LMAO

All very true.

[gm iprod]

One of the highest base pads every seen was one used by an Australian, one Oscar Carnicelli I believe. It looks suspiciously like the venturi off the second stage of an Atlas5 rocket. Only a little bigger.

We use mats to stop us from drowning, the prone pad is to keep the mat from floating away.