Thread: using rear guns bags in the field ?

Since my earlier post on the folding rest I have had a chance to test the idea and also to realise that I made a typo and put 10mm ply when I meant 7mm in the earlier entry.
Anyway I tested some books out and found that with the book shoved to the left it didn't interfere with the right arm and provided a surprisingly steady and easily variable height rest when combined with the bipod.
To keep with Rossi's expectation for good taste in such matters, I first tested using a limited edition of Robinson Crusoe, this proved to be sturdy but lacking height. I then tried with 'The Definitive works of Rudyard Kipling' this time with high expectations. Although Kipling had a good spine he also proved to be a touch short as a rest. Finally I moved to a home grown edition, 'A Southern Gentry' by Steven Eldred Grigg. This book at 187 mm wide performed the test faultlessly and proved the concept of a lightweight folding rear rest. In Fact Grigg proved to be such a solid bracing rest, although albeit a sometimes 'dry' author I will be making a prototype folding rear rest myself.