Master senseis of the world, how do you build stable seated positions in the field when hunting? It’s very rare to get a prone shot where I seem to hunt. Just a couple days ago I took two shots at a buck from seated positions that were less than ideal. Missed him the first time (although that was more due to a ranging error) and then found him again 2 days later and killed him. In both cases I was in tall sagebrush on steep hillsides. Prone was out of the question.
I tried everything but of course time was of the essence. It was the rear rest I struggled with most. Hatch bipod fully extended out front, and then I tried my tripod (ultralight CF little guy) a small bag for a rear rest, but it got in the way of my right leg when seated. Tried hugging my backpack in front of me and using that for rear support, but couldn’t get the height right, horizontal too low and vertical too high. In the end, I wound up putting the backpack behind me and leaning hard into it against a big sage bush, and just using my left hand as rear support with my elbow anchored on my leg. The kill shot was only 387 so I made that work, but it was less than ideal and if much longer I wouldn’t have taken it.
I’d love to see a pictorial on seated shooting positions and proper form. Way too much focus is placed on prone shooting and imo, that’s often just unrealistic in the field.
I tried everything but of course time was of the essence. It was the rear rest I struggled with most. Hatch bipod fully extended out front, and then I tried my tripod (ultralight CF little guy) a small bag for a rear rest, but it got in the way of my right leg when seated. Tried hugging my backpack in front of me and using that for rear support, but couldn’t get the height right, horizontal too low and vertical too high. In the end, I wound up putting the backpack behind me and leaning hard into it against a big sage bush, and just using my left hand as rear support with my elbow anchored on my leg. The kill shot was only 387 so I made that work, but it was less than ideal and if much longer I wouldn’t have taken it.
I’d love to see a pictorial on seated shooting positions and proper form. Way too much focus is placed on prone shooting and imo, that’s often just unrealistic in the field.
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