Re: Shooting rests, versus bags. Need a better setup.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mark5pt56</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks nifty!,, my eyes are tired, where do you get that? </div></div>
You can email Joe at
[email protected] or
[email protected] His rest runs about $200 to $250 with shipping and is 100% made in the USA buy guys learning to be machinists.
Joe Cowan is a shop teacher at the Greater Altoona Career & Technology Center in Altoona, PA. He's a benchrest shooter and has his students make them as projects in the class - under his supervision of course. From what I understand almost the entire rest is machined by the kids in his class. and every year THEY decide where the money goes. Usually to a known charity but one year it was to a local kid with cancer and big bills and one other time I believe it went to a family that had a bad car accident. I think they only make 70 or 80 of these a year and only sell through word of mouth. There is ALWAYS a waiting list and they are pre-sold months in advance. I waited several months for mine. They pop up in classifieds on a few gun forums from time to time but the go FAST.
<span style="font-weight: bold">DEFINEATLY</span> worth the money AND the wait.
Here's an example of the good that comes from the proceeds of these rests..... Posted by Joe on another forum
http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?6063...1b8994d120cbe81 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<span style="font-weight: bold">Cowan Rest....Tragedy Hits Home</span>
It is with great sadness that I post this message.
Last night, a senior student here at our school and enrolled in the Electronics program was shot and killed.
Scott Garlick was working at a local subway when a gunman entered through the back door in an apparant attempted robbery. He shot and killed Scott, injured another worker, and shot and killed killed an elderly gentleman as he was fleeing the neighborhood. The elderly man was simply at the curbside getting his mail. Scott was the nephew of one of our Food Service instructors.
Grief counselors are available today for our population of 1,100 students and staff to help deal with this senseless tragedy.
Scott was by all accounts an outstanding young man who
was active in SkillsUSA as afternoon vice-president and a recent SkillsUSA competitor at the state level.
Scott was also the Senior of the Year award winner in the Electronics program for the school year 2008-2009.
Why am I telling you?
The students of the Precision Machining program have already stepped up and offered any amount of money needed, with a minimum of $1,000.00 to help the family with final expenses for Scott. If there is no monitary need for the family, we will be organizing at the very least a scholorship in Scotts' name here at the school for higher education.
This type of help from my students would not be possible without you and your continued support of the benchrest project here at the G.A.C.T.C. and the Precision Machining program. You are teaching young people something that is all but gone in todays' youth, and most precious,.......selflessness.
Thank You
Joe Cowan
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Here's a link with some great pics of someone else's rest.
http://www.firearmschat.com/index.php?/topic/1189-unboxing-porn-cowan-front-rest/ ...
