I am shooting from a 4'X4' with a roof shooting house stand on a logging road between two cut overs. The road is only wide enough for a full size pick up truck to get down it with out scrapping tree limbs. On one side of the stand I can see 130 yards max before the road curves. The other direction I can see 200 yards where the road tees into another road and my property lease ends. I set up my Contender on the 130 yard side of the stand. I screwed a piece of plywood about 1 foot wide and 1 1/2 feet long to the 2X4 that makes the window seal to make a platform to place two sandbags to support the forearm and a small sand bag to rest the butt of the grip on. I just set the Contender up on the bags with the Weaver 2.5-8X28 scope set on 2.5 aiming straight down the road to where a crossing is that I have placed some ear corn that will stop most deer so I can get a shot at them. My average shot is at or around this crossing between 80 and 120 yards. The closest shot that I can remember taking was last year at 45 yards. For some reason some deer started crossing there last year. I took two a buck and a doe there last year. I have lost track at how many deer I have taken from this stand with different contender barrels over the past 10 or so years. I have taken deer with a 14" wildcat caliber 6mm-225 Winchester, a 10" 357 mag but my favorite barrel is the 14" 30-30AI. The long 200 yards side of the stand I use a rifle that is resting on a 2X6 with some carpet placed on it placed on the window seal. I could use my Contender there but you have to shoot really quickly some times and do not have time to do much moving things around.
