Recommendation for Shooting Sticks/Tripod

[Gemsbok Gangsta]

PH will have sticks. Just get a set of Cabelas tripod and practice at your local range. Now need to spend hundreds of dollars on an item you will not use very much outside of Africa.

Ill be darned if I did not use sticks this year at home on a deer hunt. Never thought I would use them but after my hunt with KMG last May/June I decided to carry and use them. 306 yards off sticks done....

 

[wesheltonj]

I have a pair of the Africa Sporting Creations wood sticks. I have used them in Africa and Elk hunting here in the states. That said, I would buy the carbon fiber sticks. Note: I also use a Boca Shield neoprene cover on my rifle to help prevent marring to my stock.

 

[Tom Leoni]

Thanks for the kind replies. I think a set of sticks makes sense anywhere where a stalking hunt is called for--that is, anywhere short of a stand. Anything that helps shot placement helps the hunt.

 

[Shootist43]

Tom, take a look online. You can make a very practical set of shooting sticks with three pieces of dowel rod and a vacuum cleaner belt. The next thing you need to know is that you do not have to do all of your "stick" practice with your 375. Some to be sure but only after you've mastered the use of the sticks. I used a 17 HRM, you can also use a 22. The main thing to learn is NOT to pull your hand or gun down hard into the "V". Just use the sticks to steady your hand, while griping the stock. Later on increase the caliber of your rifle to whatever you have like a 308 or a '0-6. Then a couple of weeks before you go get out your 375 and practice shooting off sticks. Once your rifles are4 zeroed, stay off the shooting bench, they just don't have any of them out in the bush.

 

[Royal27]

Sticks are very personal. I like sticks, bound together with rubber or rope, whatever. I have tried bog pog type sticks as well. I'm not as comfortable with them, personally.

So get some good general ideas here, but then see if you can't find some different ideas to try first. The best for me may not be the best for you.

 

[Cable68]

That's pretty much what I did except I used bamboo sticks. Five 6 ft bamboo poles, one package of 2 vacuum cleaner belts, less than $10.00 from Lowe's. I also wrapped the tops with tennis racquet grip tape to help prevent scratches of the stock.

 

[Royal27]

That's pretty much what I did except I used bamboo sticks. Five 6 ft bamboo poles, one package of 2 vacuum cleaner belts, less than $10.00 from Lowe's. I also wrapped the tops with tennis racquet grip tape to help prevent scratches of the stock.

I got the vacuum cleaner belts on Amazon and used electrical tape. Love the racquet tape idea! Much better than what I did.

 

[Buckdog]

I used Bean's 4 legged sticks last yr loved them so I made my own just bought 4 6ft dowel rds and you lash 2 together and then lash the 2 pairs together. this probably doesn't make sense but check out you tube there are videos on the 4 leggers. you just cant miss with those things whacked a bushbuck at 215 flop. primos has new 5 leggers called polecats tried out at shot show super steady too.

 

[Cable68]

When I said I bought 5 poles, I made both a bipod and a tripod.

 

[Husker-in-WA]

Tom, take a look online. You can make a very practical set of shooting sticks with three pieces of dowel rod and a vacuum cleaner belt.

Like Shootist43 says. I made a set of these, http://www.ropeworks.biz/reader/tripod.pdf, from bamboo poles found at the local garden center and some thin #18 three strand nylon cord. Wrapped a thin piece of inner tube in and around the "v" notch to cushion the rifle forend. Works as intended.

 

[neckdeep]

Viper-Flex, got to use them in Zim last fall, they support both ends of the gun which allows for rock solid rest, no horizontal sway. Much more effective than my trigger stix's that are now collecting dust in the corner. I ordered a pair of Viper-Flex Journey's, very light, partially carbon fiber. They break down for travel and will definitely be going on my next trip to Africa. I can't stress enough how well these work.

 

[Gemsbok Gangsta]

Viper-Flex, got to use them in Zim last fall, they support both ends of the gun which allows for rock solid rest, no horizontal sway. Much more effective than my trigger stix's that are now collecting dust in the corner. I ordered a pair of Viper-Flex Journey's, very light, partially carbon fiber. They break down for travel and will definitely be going on my next trip to Africa. I can't stress enough how well these work.

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Doing research now.....

 

[Buckdog]

@neckdeep your viper stick would be the 4 leggers that I made exactly save some money and just lash 4 dowel rods, bamboo, what ever together and you have a viper sick and I agree they are super steady, set up just as fast as tripod sitcks

 

[rookhawk]

I'm a really tall guy so I find big tripods too cumbersome. I really like a bipod as they set up a second or two faster and can be just as accurate if you hold them correctly.

YMMV

I have a fancy pair in the USA but the bamboo ones the boys made for me with inner tube wrapped top that is in Zim is an old friend. I know those sticks pretty well after 30-40 animals shot off them.

 

[ArmyGrunt]

Use your friends responsibly

 

[Brent in Az]

Use your friends responsibly
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With a rifle rest like that, I could see myself becoming a "Crack shot"

 

[ArmyGrunt]

 

[James Cook]

lots of choices. as noted, the important thing is buy/make a pair, go to the range, and figure out what works best for you - hand position, arm position, gun position, best height for you, etc. - and then practice some more.

 

[Rob404]

And they carry themselves!!!View attachment 173618

Sure Honey I don't mind taking you to Africa with Me, by the way whens the last time you tried standing on your Head

 

[Desert Dog]

Of the modern sticks bogpod is preferred in Africa. I have trigger sticks but some say sand gets in them. Get some traditional ones and see what you think.
Philip

Yep, those bog-pods are the most used sticks world wide; Canada, Alaska, Mexico, New Zealand, and everywhere here. On my first trip to Africa, I thought the PHs were going to have cool home-made sticks like you see in the hunting videos. But nope, they all used Bog-pod red-legged Devils, lol.