The Precision Stack Link: Bringing Benchrest Accuracy Anywhere

The Problem with Window and Field Shooting

If you're controlling pest populations — sparrows, rodents, or other small targets — you need precision. And precision at the bench is easy. But take that same shot from a window or field position, and something breaks down: your rear support is adjustable, but not precisely adjustable.

The typical setup uses a window sill or table as a front rest and a tripod at the rear. The front is fixed and stable. The rear is where things fall apart. Tripods and ball heads give you gross adjustment, but dialing in fine elevation changes without introducing horizontal drift is nearly impossible with a standard head. Rotate the top of a ball head that isn't perfectly centered and you get lateral movement — the last thing you want when you're trying to repeat a zero.

How the Precision Stack Link Works

The Precision Stack Link fits into the stack between your tripod and your rifle rest, and solves this problem through a few specific design choices.

The top and bottom interfaces support both Picatinny and Arca, so it integrates with existing equipment without adapters. The core mechanism is a threaded adjuster — a direct relative of our Pocket Benchrest — that raises or lowers elevation by rotating the knurled top. Precise, repeatable, and tactile.

The catch: if the top rotates, so does everything attached to it. That's a problem for most rests and tripod heads. To solve it, the Precision Stack Link incorporates dual tapered thrust bearings in its core. The top rail clamp rotates freely relative to the rest of the stack. You get vertical adjustment without spinning either rail section.

The Result

Benchrest-grade precision elevation control, deployable anywhere you can set a tripod. For shooters who need a rear rest to fit a rifle stock, we also offer that as a free download.

Eyeshine Targets: Built for Night Shooting, Tested by Neglect

A Target Designed for the Dark

Most targets assume you're shooting in daylight. Eyeshine Targets were designed around the opposite condition: night shooting under night vision or thermal optics. They serve two specific needs that standard targets don't — visibility in low-light conditions and quiet target impact that won't disturb neighbors or the surrounding environment.

Two variants are available: one with photoluminescent eyes for use under night vision, and one loaded with thermal compound to enhance contrast with a thermal imager.

The UV Durability Test

We left one outside. Not for a weekend — since 2023. Blistering summer sun, freezing winters, rounds from airguns, handguns, centerfire rifles, and even hollowpoints. The polymer body took cosmetic damage. The eyes still glow. It still stops shots.

The yellow string visible in some product photos was holding up a separate target nearby. Rifle splatter destroyed that one. The Eyeshine Target is still standing.

What We Learned About Color

UV exposure revealed a practical finding: lighter pigments degrade in direct sun more visibly than darker ones. Performance is unaffected, but the discoloration looks bad. As a result, future production runs will be black only. Non-black inventory remains available while supplies last.

The Cobra Carrier: Getting Knipex Cobras Into Your Pocket

The Case for Cobra Pliers

Knipex Cobra pliers are a benchmark tool. Induction-hardened teeth rated to 61 Rockwell, an adjustable jaw that locks under load, and a slim profile relative to their grip strength. Ounce for ounce, they're hard to beat.

The problem is getting them out of the toolbox. Cobra pliers don't clip. They don't carry. And if you drop them loose in a pocket with keys or a knife, those induction-hardened teeth will do exactly what they were designed to do — except to your other gear.

What the Cobra Carrier Does

The Cobra Carrier is a purpose-built holster and pocket clip for Knipex Cobras. It keeps the pliers at the corner of your pocket, accessible but contained. The near-zero-bulk design doesn't add meaningful thickness to the carry.

Critically, it also protects everything else in your pocket from the jaws. A set of keys repeatedly contacting hardened steel teeth at 61 Rockwell doesn't end well for the keys.

Simple, compact, rugged, reliable — the right profile for a discrete everyday carry toolkit.