Shooting Sticks … Make your Own !!
Instead of using a bipod for my squirrel hunting efforts I have settled on shooting sticks … they have worked so well that I wanted to show everyone else how to make your own at home.
Advantages are several … for instance you don’t have to “attach” it to your rifle. You can carry them along or leave them behind such as in a stalking situation. You can get more shooting height out of these for those high angled shots on game way upstairs in the big trees. You can make them to any length that suits you … and finally they make a great walking stick in the woods.
Materials needed :
1 – 1×2 Pine 8 feet long
1 – 1/4 inch bolt 2 inches long
3 – flat washers
1 – wing nut
2 – nails
Camo Paint
Epoxy Glue – 30 minute
Rubber or Leather 1/8ths inch thick
These shooting sticks are designed to be used by sitting on the ground behind them. As for length a set that will be used for horizontal shooting or into the lower limbs of trees just make the sticks half of your own height is a good rule. So if you’re 5’10” or 70″ tall make the sticks 35″ long and they’ll be custom fit to you.
But if you want to shoot WAY upstairs into the tops of large hardwood trees a set made 42″ long is what you need. In this Tutorial I am making a set 42″ long for my squirrel hunting adventures.
First cut the 1×2 into 2 pieces 42 inches long.
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Great idea ! Also you can wrap a rubber band around the sticks to keep them quiet while walking.
Thanks for the input !! 😀
Looks good man. Thanks for the write up. One thing I might add is a string of proper length below the swivel point to keep the sticks from falling all the way open if the nails don’t get a dig.
I’ve been using Shooting Sticks for about a month now … I live in the boonies and have a nice airgun range set up on our 1.25 acres.
My .177 Talon will shoot 1/4 inch groups at 40 yards when I do my part. CPH’s are it’s favorite pellet and at a launch speed of 972 fps they are deadly pills.
Usually I use a Caldwell Fire Control rifle rest shooting from inside of my shed out onto the airgun range. The real test for me with the Shooting Sticks was to see if I could sit on the ground next to the shed and still make one of those tiny little groups appear.
By sitting under a tree and resting my back up against it .. the very first evening of trying I produced one of those 1/4 inch groups at 40 yards … I was impressed !!
With a little practice on your new shooting sticks you’ll get the hang of shooting across them … and then every target out there is in serious peril 😆
The best part is that you can take that solid shooting position with you any where you go 🙂
Thanks Steve
Thanks Adam ! 😀
Great post. I will make it a sticky in a few days.
Thanks Steve
Harris Bi-pods kinda get a bit heavy, well just added weight.
Nice job 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
SAW
😆 😆 I just saw that you snuck that in on me 😆
With 42 inch sticks you are ready to go way upstairs on those bushy tails 😀
crafty some bitch you are 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
SAW
Assemble … don’t forget to put the washers on … I paint the 2 that go on the outside .. but not the one that goes in between the 2 sticks.
Admire your handi-work 😀
Trim off the excess rubber and tape for touching up the paint.
Next up is to make the padding for the rifle to rest on … I am using an 1/8ths inch thick rubber that my local hardware store carries in the plumbing department.
Just as good or maybe better would be a sheet of leather for this purpose. Sand the paint off where the padding goes and cut the rubber into 3/4’s of an inch wide strips at least 6 inches long.
Glue them on with 30 minute epoxy and add some weight till cured.
Sticks with camo pattern to help break up the outline …
Great in detail post there Palu, looks good, and by the way you posted any body could pull it off 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Harris Bi-pods kinda get a bit heavy, well just added weight.
Nice job 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
SAW
I use 2 different back ground colors on my sticks .. brown on one side for dark areas that I might shoot from and an OD green back ground on the other side in lighter conditions .. like a sunny day and I am sitting under a shade tree.
Sticks with no camo just back ground color.
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That sure seems like a lot of work.