pistol rest

[cbourbeau32]

When shooting from a rest with your pistol be it a rest at the range, shooting sticks or a tree limb while on stand. Where do you rest your pistol on the rest?  I know with rifles you need to be careful how you rest them? Thanks for any responses. Charlie

[StrawHat]

I rest my wrists on the rest.  I am sure others do different but it works for me.

What works for you?

Good luck.

[Graybeard]

Depends on what I'm shooting really.

For revolvers that don't kick too terribly much I prefer to put front of frame on the padded rest and hold the grip in my hands with bottom of hands resting on a soft sand filled bag. If the revolver is a heavy kicker you DO NOT want to hold that way tho. Then I get my wrists and lower fore arm on the bags and make darn sure to keep my hands on the grip away from anything that might get my hands pinched during recoil.

For most all TCs I rest fore arm on a soft sand filled bag and the grip also on a very soft sand filled bag and keep my hands high enough on the grip to avoid getting them pinched in recoil. The closer you get the bag to the point the frame and barrel meet the better.

[kennisondan]

that is what I have found comfortable as well for revolvers and TC; consistency is important too, so next time at the range I try to do the exact same thing.
In revolver hunting I am usually using a hard rest unless my ruck sack is available, etc. Then I use the forearms and let the wrists be out in front of the rest, whether a vertical or a horizontal rest.  for the TC I sometimes use a horizontal rest and try to pad it with whatever is available, for a vertical rest I have found myself modifying my hold and pinning the pistol against the vertical rest with my weak hand and absorbing the recoil with the strong hand..it works for me.  If I am squirrel hunting and grabbing a rest off a tree, I use the weak hand pinning it aganst the tree method and blister the little tree rats with the scoped 22 mag. barrel held in place fairly tightly, as there is little recoil and no noticeable problem with that over the years.
JM2cents.   
dk

[cbourbeau32]

Thanks for the replies. I have shot rifles all my adult life for accuracy but haven't shot pistols for accuracy until just recently. Charlie

[coop2564]

I have a 41mag 6"  and like graybeard said I sighted in with frame on rest and when I shot at 25yds freehand I was 6" low. So I sighted in using wrist on rest and I was also on freehand. I also found using the frame on the rest that my grip pressure was a lot more touchy than when I shot with my wrist on the rest.

[rickyp]

I do the same thing I have several  loose  filled shot bags filled with sand. I rest the forend on the sand bag as close to the frame as i can get and I rest my wrest on the other sandbag I do not let the butt of the grip touch anything it can make the shots string high. when hunting from a stand I use the front bar as a rest I use my wrest for support  no part of the gun touches the rail

[Lloyd Smale]

I dont like to rest any part of the gun on anything. I put one bag on the bench to rest my grip hand on and thats it. I find that if you rest any part of a handgun on anything it will shoot to a different point of aim then it will off hand and if you have a good trigger and good trigger control you will shoot just as well on a bench without a rest anyway.

[corbanzo]

A lot of the time if I'm out in the woods shooting, I will lean my shoulder up against a tree to balance myself (handguns only of course).  I dont ever put parts of a handgun down, only rest on my hands.