Target, Tactical, Bench Forearm??????

[David D.]

Wanted something different in a target forearm. Should cool the barrel a little quicker. Tell me what you think about it, good or bad!!!! Not the prettiest thing ever but should be functionable.

[wvjoetc]

I like your design, I have been shooting with a bipod but wanting something with a flatter forend to shoot off bags or a rest.  The bipod marks the wood, I'm gonning to PM you Dave.
Joe

[frankkj]

Looks good to me. I have been playing around with wider and flatter bottomed forends for a while now. Sure adds increased stability when used with a wide, flat bag.
Frank

[HHI-7420]

Looks good David. But, if you rest towards the front on the floating part, won't that put a lot of force on the single screw? You don't say what cal. it is. Would recoil impart more force also. Look to be a small cal. from the picture. Other than that one thought, it looks fine and should work the same-thumbs up.  Pat

[Ladobe]

Looks good David. But, if you rest towards the front on the floating part, won't that put a lot of force on the single screw? ...

Pat - IMO if Dave uses a hanger bar system it would be no different than a fully floated forend on a Bullberry like hanger bar, strength wise, and I never lost one of those even on the badest of the hard recoiling handcannons I had (416 Rigby, 375JDJ's, etc).     Besides, its long known the best place to support a TC forend is right under its mounting screw(s), not out on the front tip.

Dave, like the forends Don Bower offered for his Bower rest systems, looks functional but ugly as sin.    Just as functional but more pleasing to the eye IMO is cooling slots on a fully floated target forend.       

[David D.]

if you rest towards the front on the floating part, won't that put a lot of force on the single screw? You don't say what cal. it is. Would recoil impart more force also. Look to be a small cal. from the picture. Other than that one thought, it looks fine and should work the same-thumbs up.  Pat

Its a two screw Encore in 257JDJ. I never rest towards the front anyway. But if one did with recoil lifting the barrel up I couldn't see how that would be any different on this forearm than any other.

[KYODE]

fine lookin craftsmanship dave, but my opinion is like ladobes. not really my prefered style.

Just as functional but more pleasing to the eye IMO is cooling slots on a fully floated target forend.