Concrete Shooting Bench

Front view of the finished concrete shooting bench, it weighs over 500 lbs and is very stable.  The base is poured as one piece using 5000 psi concrete and 1/2 rebar, the mold for the base was the hardest part to build.  The top was poured using sand mix, fiber reinforced concrete and 3/8" rebar.

View from the rear of the bench showing the cutouts for right or left handed shooters.

Picture of the bench top, still in the mold, after pouring the first layer of concrete and laying the rebar.  The first layer is sand mix, the second layer will be fiber reinforced concrete.  The top will be flipped over so the sand mix will be on the top, the sand mix makes the table top smoother.

Here's the plywood form I built to pour the concrete shooting bench base. The picture was taken after the concrete was poured.  Building this form was the hardest part of building the shooting bench.  It's made from 3/8" plywwod and 2x4 wall studs then screwed together with drywall screws so it would be easier to take apart.

Here's the concrete shooting bench base after removing it from the form. The outside was a little rougher that I wanted but not to bad for my first try, the table top was much smoother.

 Here's my concrete shooting bench ready to use on my 200 yard firing range.

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