shooting sticks 4a handgun

[usajon]

anyone use them?

hunting?
target ?

[kings6]

Used them last year of my antelope hunt and they worked great. Sixshot, Dick Thompson uses them all the time as well.

[whitworth]

Yeah, I've used them on a number of hunts to include moose in Maine. I have a set of Stoney Point sticks.

[sixshot]

Mine are home made from I think 5/8's wooden dowels. I cut them 36" long & glued a rubber bottom on them that you can buy at any hardware store. Then I took some good leather shoe lacing & tied them pretty tight with the lacing about 6" down from the top. Now you just spread them & place your gun in the fork & lean them slightly back toward you & you're pretty darn steady. I used them in Africa & all over the west. You can place them inside your feet to keep them from spreading farther, helps quite a bit sometimes.

Easy to carry, I just poke them in my little back pack & if I need them I just reach over my shoulder & pull them out. I always have at least 2 different kinds of a rest with me depending on the terrain. You never know what kind of shot is going to present itself & you want to be ready. I'll take an off hand shot & have done so many, many times but I want a rest if I can get it.

Many times its the difference in getting a shot or going home empty. I never would have got my Wildebeest in Africa without my home made shooting sticks. They just fit in my gun box.

Also my full length walking stick has been useful many times, when I shot my cow elk at 168 yds I used it & was rock solid, I knew she was dead before I ever pulled the trigger because I was so steady. It has a little leather thong through the top part, I run my left wrist through that & lay the stick across my left thigh at an angle. This is only useful in certain situations, thats why I like 2 different rests. You put it at an angle, left hand through the leather sling & then grip the gun with both hands. Now its just like shooting from the bench. My buddy was shooting her with the range finder. When she stopped broadside at 168 yds I knew where to hold, dropped the hammer, took out both lungs with the 260 gr Keith from an OM 7 1/2" Ruger 45 Brassie & there was blood everywhere, she went maybe 20 yds downhill & dead. Without the rest I had no shot & wouldn't have taken it.

Dick

[zeus]

I have Stoney point, home made versions and a Bogpod with the PSR top. I think that's the letters. Can't remember. Works great!

[ter548]

 I took my shooting sticks and modified with a flat piece of wood on top. Rest the butt of the handgun on the flat piece of wood. Move the sticks forward or back to get the elevation. This works great for me. It's a very steady shooting position. Much better than resting the barrel or frame on the sticks, for me anyhow. Use this mostly with my scoped SBH hunter in 44 mag.  Shot some groundhogs like this and long range targets.  Targets out to 300 yards.

[sixshot]

I also use one of the Trigger Stix, the short one but I use it different than you would think, I rest my left elbow on it. If I'm sitting on a waterhole or when I'm in Montana hunting white tails & I'm sitting in a funnel area where I won't be moving I take a little aluminum folding stool, weighs about 1 lb. I sit on it, drop the Trigger Stix out to full length & rest my left elbow on it. Makes for a really steady rest, I've taken 4-5 white tails using it.

Dick

[usajon]

any one have a photo of Stixxx in use on a hunt ?

[sixshot]

I need to back up just a bit on my home made sticks, I don't use them much because they are only good on flat ground like when I'm hunting in Montana or when I used them in Africa so I made a mistake. They have 3 legs, not 2, sorry. So you have to be on pretty flat ground to make them work but when you spread out those 3 legs its rock solid. I couldn't find a photo right now but did find one of my Trigger Stix, they are made by Primos Brothers.
This is just after I had shot a white tail doe across the little creek you see in front of me. You can see my left elbow on the Trigger Stix & its very steady. I think the gun was either my Ruger 7 1/2" flat top 44 special or my OM 7 1/2" 44 maggie, can't remember. Two of my buddies daughters wanted to be in the second photo. The shot was about 45-50 yds using the classic Keith 250 gr. slug.

I was brushed up in a little wood pile when 2 doe's run up on the far side of the creek & started looking back, my buddy had spooked them my way. I got another one the next day with, I think my 41 maggie.
I always shoot 2 every year up there.

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Yes I did have to wade the creek & when you do that you don't gut them, you float them across & then gut them on the other side. If you gut them first then they won't float!

This was a different year using my Ruger flat top 44 special, I didn't use the Trigger Stix, I just put it there for the photo. The buck was running, I shot him twice with the Keith bullet & 7.5 grs. of Unique at about 35 & 50 yds I think, he was running pretty good. Both shots were fatal, just took him 5 seconds to figure it out.


I have a lot more photo's just can't find them tonight.

My buddy Brent used my Harton 480 to take this fine bull moose using a set of my shooting sticks, not sure which set, I'll have to find the photo. He shot this bull about 5 minutes earlier, he was very interested in a cow that was making some very weird noises.





Dick

[Markbo]

Dick you are going to have to post pics of those sticks. For the life of me I dont know how you can keep them between your feet and lean them back and use them if they are only 36" long.

[whitworth]

My Stoney Point sticks...

[bulasteve]

I've an ultra-light photo=type tripod already camoed from my packing/climbing days I'll have to give a try. I did try just your basic walking stick, something that I can find within a 100ft in our woodland type habitat. The single shaft thing didn't work for me. More effort needs to be applied I guess.

[sixshot]

Markbo, I made a mistake at first & said there were 2 sticks, haven't used them in a while because they are pretty much for flat ground & there's not a lot of flat ground in Idaho. They actually have 3 legs like those posted by Whitworth & I do put 2 of the legs inside my feet or legs so they don't move but I don't lean them back. I'll see if I can find a photo for you, they work really good out of a blind or when I'm in Montana. Worked wonderful in Africa.
Here's a photo of Brent the week before he shot his moose, I had him & his son on a different water hole. You can't see the rubber caps on the sticks but they really help so they don't slide around. Because of the angle to the water hole he had them outside his legs, no problem.



This is the cow moose that was just ahead of Brent's bull, I could see him coming down the meadow, 10 seconds later Brent shot him dead center with my 480. One of my son's bow killed a moose here & Callshot killed his moose here with his Ruger 41 maggie. I have no idea how many elk we've bow killed on this water hole.




Dick

[jdoc]

Mar 30, 2016 7:52:22 GMT -5 whitworth said:

My Stoney Point sticks...

Looks like Lee's hands. Front sight looks like one of Lee's, too.

[whitworth]

Yes, it was a photo we shot for one of my books -- the shooting sticks are mine even though the hands and revolver aren't! Good eye!