inch barrel beyond the edge of the front of the bench – a rule requirement. So, the leg can be placed to the rear. With 1000 yard guns (or F Class rifles) with maybe a 30 inch barrel, this wouldn’t be a problem and you will have the leg to the front.
The other great advantage over the Mk 1 is vertical adjustment. The NEO has at least twice the adjustment of the Mk1 – not so important in
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Amazingly, it was fine. In fact, when I slammed the rifle back into battery after pulling the trigger, the crosshair was really close to my aim-point – I was well impressed! I won’t get the chance to try a 22lb rifle for sometime as my F Open gun only weighs about 18lbs. so again, no problem. I love my NEO!
So, what other features do we have on the latest NEO? For a start, we have proper hardened steel points on the legs – not for F Class but essential for hammering into the concrete bench-top to prevent the rest sliding about. For F Class, Seb can supply a set of large ‘feet’ which work better on a grassy firing- point.
Put the leg to the front if you have a long-barrelled rifle
benchrest but with massive variation in grass firing- points on outdoor ranges. It is a very useful feature all the more so as it is very easy to wind up and down, with an adjuster on each side – use either, which ever one is more convenient.
The tension is now simplicity itself to adjust – two thumb-screws with locking-rings. Tension can now easily be adjusted on range, though in fairness, I never needed to do it on range with my Mk 1 but, it was so fiddly, I wouldn’t have attempted it anyway.
So, if we want to run the NEO ‘loose’ do we need a counter-balance weight? Seb has addressed this – by incorporating a spring which provides a certain amount of ‘up-lift’ to counteract the weight of the rifle. My rest will be used with three gun weights – 10.5lb. for Light Varmint benchrest, 17lb. for Light Gun in 1000 yard benchrest and 22lb. for F Class shooting. I doubt that the spring uplift will cope with this variation but, when I tried the rest with my 10.5lb. short-range benchgun it was absolutely fine. Mike Ratigan did say that he had removed the ‘uplift’ spring and replaced it with a counterbalance weight but honestly it worked very well for me. But how would it work with my 17lb 1000 yard Light Gun?
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Now, let’s have a look at the front bag – or bags to be accurate. This three-piece front bag was always a bit controversial on the original NEO and, in
some respects, I’m surprised that Seb retained it. It does allow the rest to cope with different rifle fore- end widths but is this necessary? For short range benchrest and F Class, three-inches is the maximum permitted fore-end width but, in 1000 yard benchrest, rifles may use a wider fore-end and I think this is maybe what Seb had in mind.
Tension is now adjusted with these two thumb-screws
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