Don't know where I heard it, but I was once told "if you have a hard, sand-filled bag in front, you need a soft bag in the rear..................or the other way around, but never two hard or two soft bags to shoot from". Is there anything to that?
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So how do guys shoot with a bi-pod up front and a mono-pod in the rear? Or how do guys shoot from just a bunched up backpack and jackets?
If you have proper recoil management skills then you have nothing to worry about in my opinion. It may be wrong, but I don't think so.
Sorry, I didn't mention it. At present, I'm shooting off a bench rest with a hard sand-filled leather owl bag. My rear bag used to have plastic beads in it, but I got rid of them and filled it with sand. I like the arrangement, but I'm wondering if the two sand bags are a no-no.
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I use a bipod in the front and I put a bag under my monopod in the rear. If the bipod is on the grass it is more forgiving than if it is on concrete. Same with the monopod. I use a rear bag under the monopod because it is more forgiving. If either or both are on a hard surface it becomes difficult to keep the rifle from stringing vertically...but not impossible.
I use bipod or 2x4 carpet covered rest provided by my range near home and sand filled bags for the rear. If I am a little over dead center of the target, I can squeeze the sand bags at the back to bring the rifle in-line with the target. I have tried the sand bags at both ends and it gets a little too "mushy" to try to get on target. So I prefer hard up front, soft in the back.
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