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Warwick Marflitt

Ok call me crazy but I find shooting tables feel unatural to use! I'd rather shoot liying down or standing with a decient rest at the correct height to shoot from like a trench or foxhole. Or a rest type shelf mounted to a tree trunk? I have got a 7rest I saw at RLS and thought its worth a try and if not its going to be good as a work bench gun rest . So has anyone gone away from the conventional table with a seat for range work. Maybe a concreate tank with an small window with a custom adjustable padded gun rest? The big plus being that a Braked Magnums Barrel would be outside the firing hole with concreate walls to Shut The F***** Thing Up!
I Have always used trees, fence posts, Logs, Mound of dirt, Whatever! as a rest to shoot off. If somethings there handy and practical to use I'll use it because I know I wont miss! Thats what I tell myself and 99% of the time Unless Opossum decides to pee on you! (We both missed with our first shots!!! LOL I saw it coming pinged and side stepped!!!! Furry F@#$er reload Phutt wopp! Fa...............ll . Geeze I used to love shooting money out of the trees in the late 1980s one dead unskined Urewera buck possum would fetch around $14 multiply that by 45 and it was bloody good money and fun ! Bloody 1080 has destroyed a good honest industry)
So back to the initial question. What have any of you used or tried? I find on a bench/table using bags that I cant get forehand grip how I like it to be? My Ham sandwich as Nathan called it! So have a good critical think about the options Ive asked about? My pick of the bunch is a 10ft Strainer post 4 foot into the ground and rammed in firmly or concreated into Mother earth with some thick wooden peggs with some pool snake foam over the peggs for padding? Im House sitting a farmhouse for a month and will be finishing my load development then stablising and bedding my 75 Sako 6.5x55 Swed. Ill be interested to hear your thoughts? Cheers Gents
Warwick