Recommendation for Freeland Offhand Stand.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:18 pm
Not that its probably a secret but I wanted to throw out a recommendation for the Freeland offhand stand. I just got it today from Champion's Shooter Supply and am very pleased with the construction. I decided to spend the extra $40 or so over the Champions Choice aluminum stand since I figured this stand would darn near outlast me and I'm glad I did. Working for a US manufacturer myself its nice to see a high quality piece made fully in the US at a reasonable (not cheap) price. I'm a sucker for steel and lots of it and this stand delivers, tons of cast iron and heavy duty steel rod. Even the oak bullet tray has a nice cast iron frame. If I could point out a negative there are some areas I could see you could strip some threads if you put some Hulk strength into it. The platform on top is made from 3/4" thick black HDPE plastic that is threaded to accept the steel rod, I know this material is high quality (and expensive) as we use some at work but if they wanted to really go all out they could have made a cast iron platform with metal threads and some type of wood or hdpe platform atop that. Looking forward to giving her a go.