Orinally posted by Monkey Spanker:
I couldn’t bring myself to spend £85 of hard earned money on shooting sticks, so I made my own.
Below are some pictures of the finished article, they were simple to make and cost less than £5.
You will need,
Green Garden Canes 1800mm x 16mm, or 1700mm x 11mm.
Bungee Rope
O rings, Bike Inner Tube or Bridle Rope
Most of you will have seen Bipod stalking sticks using garden canes.
Simply make two sets of these,
By joining the sticks with either large o rings, inner tube or a bridle rubber you will be able to adjust he height to allow for sitting shots.
You may think this is not necessary as the support you get when using these is as good as when prone, but do you really want to stand for 2 hours waiting for the elusive buck to show up.
Join both sets together at the bottom using 3/8 bungee rope, go around the sticks 3 times this will make them sufficiently stiff to work as a bipod for quick shots.
I found I needed to shorten one of the 4 poles to make for a more comfortable shooting position.
The sticks work great as a normal bipod sticks and have the benefit of being ultra stable when fully deployed for those longer range shots.
You will need to practice the use of them to get the full benefit them, and some range time to assess your abilities with them.
I am 6” 5’ and found I needed to use 1800mm x 16mm Green garden canes to be able to use them as a bipod, if you are shorter you are lucky enough to be able to use 1700mm x 11mm which makes a lighter smaller set of sticks.
I have used single, bipod and tripod sticks over the years but these are by far the best I have used so far.