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Post by makete on Dec 17, 2009 11:39:26 GMT -6
I would think laying prone would really affect the neck and upper back on long sets. It should say for us " more mellower with age" types.
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Post by tramperro on Dec 26, 2009 1:23:35 GMT -6
Going prone here does not work...unless you're after a nap. 3'--7' sage, bitter & other types of brush plus "rounded" hills makes me sit up & use cross sticks. Mine are home made out of yard sale ski poles, dowel inserts,bolted together,inner tube at the yoke. V. Howey makes & AP Calls sells a real good one. His yoke will twist when its loose. A taller harris bi pod probably would work for most people but not for me...can't fit the outfit into a rifle scabbard (which goes onto the mule)...same goes for them target turrets, & big belled scopes. On the forest I have made do with a single fir limb next to my knee & have made several 400+ yd shots....but that ain't the best set up. I use a surplus packsack to carry all my calling gear in that doubles as a seat as it has some foam padding in it. The cross sticks double as a crutch, snake killer/extractor, and dog/mule training aid.
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Post by lb on Dec 26, 2009 12:13:50 GMT -6
"snake killer/extractor, and dog/mule training aid".
You forgot Squaw.
Yeah, that six foot (plus) sage can be a real problem, can't it? And, you don't even realize how high it is, until you get down in it. Mule deer especially, love it. Day two of the season, all the orange is up on the mountain tops, driving the bucks down the hill, hiding in sage that's over their head.
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Post by tramperro on Dec 27, 2009 22:55:48 GMT -6
lb...I'm afraid if I used them on the squaw, she'd take them & use them on me....or as a supository. Either way it wouldn't be fun.
Cross sticks arn't perfect, but have used them on the job for 18 yrs now. It does help to have a 1--2" strip of inner tube tied or taped to the top of the sticks....loose like, to keep the rifle from sliding.....not tight . If I have to pivot on a incoming coyote, I try to do it when its going behind some brush or into a dip of sorts, move then stop him & shoot. There's been times when I've squeezed the sticks together , "in the heat of battle" on multiple coyotes, and used them as a monopod...with my thumb as the yoke....it is faster. I'm more accurate with the sticks spread, me on my butt....preferably with my back up against a rock & my arm locked on my knee with that hand gripped on the sticks & rifle.
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