Shooting Sticks - Walking Poles part 1

[Scythe13]

Today I got back from shooting to find 2 parcels in the porch! One was a new waterproof jacket and the other was a set of walking poles.

I have had a bit of a play with the walking poles by crossing the mylon hand straps amd using the cradle created as a shooting stick style rig.

To my surprise, they proved to be most effective. Shooting out at 28 meters and 9/10 shots being clean impacts on my spinner target. The 1/10 that missed, I either know why (e.g. I pulled the shot or too heavy on the trigger) or it was literally a few mm off the target.

A quick note, if you're using a spinner, have a sheet of paper behind the target so you can see how much you missed by and where the shot ended up.

So, my initial view on the use of walking poles as shooting sticks, definitely viable!

The increased stability and how easy they are to set up....very happy!

I'm going to camo them up, for use in the field, and will give a second review then. Maybe some pics too.