The Sight-Bloc from Range Systems is offered as an alternative to sandbags for use as support while shooting. It’s made from recycled rubber meaning it won’t deteriorate, freeze or become water-logged. Additionally, this solid rifle rest offers repeatability, shot after shot. The three cutouts are at 4″, 7″, or 9″. Made in the USA.
www.range-systems.com/product/sight-bloc
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$49.99- Holy Crap. They bought those for Fort Carson, I didn’t realize that was the MSRP.
That’s what you have to do, invent some small thing that the Army will buy a ton of. Fortune made.
This is a fantastic product. I shelled out the coin and am extremely pleased with mine. Works great and SO much better than bean bags or sand bags or lugging some stupid-clunky metal “sled” thing.
Curious about the weight of the item?
‘Weight 15 lbs’
About 5 lbs give or take a little. Most people zeroing m4s use the highest cut out like in the picture or flip it 180 degrees to get a little more height out of it when proned out.
I’ve used one of these at the CMP range at Talladega and was impressed. They worked both off the bench and in the prone and seemed nigh on indestructable. I can’t see myself buying one to throw in the car, but I think these are the best implementation I’ve yet seen of the “range-provided block for your gun.”
Our qualification scores have greatly increased ever since we took these off all our zero ranges at FTIG.
I have seen these on a lot of the qualification ranges over the past few years. Though they are nicer than disintegration sandbags, they arent a catch all in my book. I have a hard time getting comfortable behind them and some of my “vertically challenged” soldiers cant find a good middle ground. Any SSDers out there have any operator error suggestions?
Yes I recommend not using them as they can apply upward pressure on the underside of your non free floated barrel. I would recommend you teach your soldier to zero off your magazine as this is the first 30 shots on your qualification… i.e. prone supported/unsupported.
Something you can try is have a soldier shoot off one of these block with the rail making contact and apply force downward on the rifle. now fire another group off your magazine and see if there is a POA/POI shift between the two and think about the impact difference beyond 200 meters.