Anyone using shooting sticks or monopod out of a tree stand? The place I get invited to has some older home made leaning stands that have no shooting rail. Just seeing what is out there or what maybe someone smarter than me has come up with to get a more stable shot.
Sounds like sitting and brace your elbows on your knees would be about the easiest thing. Fumbling around with sticks or mono-pods seems like a really good way to screw up a shot. With sticks or mono-pods if you have a shot that is off to the side where you couldn't use them there they are in the way.
I would simulate the stand your going to be in and practice from it. I practice with sticks, stools and chairs all the time in prep for hunting.
Get up there pre season and build yourself a rail ? Fuuck carrying shooting sticks. If I had to carry all the shyt some of these guys take into the woods I'd give up hunting. If it won't fit in my jacket pockets it stays home.
I don't know if they are still made but I had a ladder stand, no rail and was able to buy just a flip up wrap around shooting rail. It was about $30 10 years ago or so. You could also practice shooting using your sling.
That's the one I had. This and my stand was stolen a couple weeks after putting it up on private land, thieves don't care where it is. The rail also gives yo a sense of security from falling out.
On my climber stands and lock on's, I try to wear a pair of rubber knee boots and slip the mono pod all the way down the boot beside my ankle. Gives you a suprising amount of stability. I hunt some open ground on the marsh and it has helped alot when nothing else is available.
I’ve made some hell of a shots off tree limbs or my knee
This.
I've also used the top section of a monopod rested on my knee. It has a rubber "over the barrel" band that I put on the sling so I don't drop it. Works very well and it's light/short.
I've used a trekking pole as well. No quite as steady as I brace it off the stand and inside of a leg and use my hand to grip it and the rifle forend.
Limb, side of tree, knee, monopod, trekking pole......if the target is past the end of my barrel, I try to use a rest of some sort.
That's the one I had. This and my stand was stolen a couple weeks after putting it up on private land, thieves don't care where it is. The rail also gives yo a sense of security from falling out.
Yes, you do feel more secure in the stand with the rail around you.
That sucks, to have something stolen in the deer woods. I hunt on a private lease. I just had someone mess up a new pop up blind. They also turned off my trail cam and erased the card. This was set up 150yds on my side of the property line, marked with a 3 wire strand fence.
If hunting over a large field I bring a telescopic monopod shooting stick to the tree stand. I have affixed a tennis ball to the end to keep the stick from passing thru the grate platform. I grasp the shaft and the stand rail with my forehand. If I can find a rest for my trigger elbow, its practically bench rest shooting at that point.
Not the least bit ashamed of the setup.......and haven't missed on, or lost a deer yet since I've been using it.
If hunting over a large field I bring a telescopic monopod shooting stick to the tree stand. I have affixed a tennis ball to the end to keep the stick from passing thru the grate platform. I grasp the shaft and the stand rail with my forehand. If I can find a rest for my trigger elbow, its practically bench rest shooting at that point.
Not the least bit ashamed of the setup.......and haven't missed on, or lost a deer yet since I've been using it.
That is my thinking. I am aware that some guys have Rambo skills and shoot off one leg standing on a 2X4 behind there back and all. But I'm not that guy. The place I get invited to is exceptional whitetail hunting for our area. It's private, and the owner and his family have been managing the herd for almost 20 years. The last thing I want is to be the schmuck that wounds a deer and then can't find it.
On my climber stands and lock on's, I try to wear a pair of rubber knee boots and slip the mono pod all the way down the boot beside my ankle. Gives you a suprising amount of stability. I hunt some open ground on the marsh and it has helped alot when nothing else is available.
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