When shooting bags won't work

[Bob Wright]

Take heart, the saguaro is probably older than you, and hates it when older gentlemen lean up against it.

I've never had to take a long shot at game, though I practice for them.
For years I would practice in the Tillamook forest, shooting across a canyon where I hung gongs at 300, 400 & 500, and another where I could shoot 800. I would use boulders or pin my rifle up against a tree.
I had bipods on my favorite rifles, and never once used them, and took them off.
A friend gave me a monopod shooting stick but that was only a little more stable than offhand.
I use shooting sticks now where I'm crouched on a knee and the stick are canted toward me. I don't know the brand, they were a gift from my brother. They took me some getting used to as far as ergonomics.

I have the Polecat adjustable shooting sticks that are solid when I sit, kneel or get back support of a tree, boulder or the occasional Saguaro.

 

[The Oregonian]

Hold a trekking pole in your off hand and use as a rear rest either your index finger which is creating a shelf or extend your thumb away from the pole and create a V with it where the rifle ca rest. Same thing this guy is doing except he is using a tripod. You can use that while kneeling or sitting. You can also use a tripod but in the field I use the tripod and an arca rail for the rifle.

There are other methods but this is one I really like.

 

[Jakeweb09]

Hold a trekking pole in your off hand and use as a rear rest either your index finger which is creating a shelf or extend your thumb away from the pole and create a V with it where the rifle ca rest. Same thing this guy is doing except he is using a tripod. You can use that while kneeling or sitting. You can also use a tripod but in the field I use the tripod and an arca rail for the rifle.

There are other methods but this is one I really like.


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Exact same method I meant but you described it much better. I do this but clipped in up front

 

[Rflshootr]

Hold a trekking pole in your off hand and use as a rear rest either your index finger which is creating a shelf or extend your thumb away from the pole and create a V with it where the rifle ca rest. Same thing this guy is doing except he is using a tripod. You can use that while kneeling or sitting. You can also use a tripod but in the field I use the tripod and an arca rail for the rifle.

There are other methods but this is one I really like.


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Notice his rifle is supported in the center, near the balance point which helps keep it from being either too front or too rear heavy.