Blaser carbon shooting sticks

See my post #113 above - I have both aluminium (Styx Elite) and carbon (Styx Journey) Viperflex 5th legs. The Carbon 5th leg still has aluminium tube in it and having got the aluminium leg a perfect fit I haven’t fitted the Carbon one so the one in the photos is the Styx Elite single - there is actually only 25 gm difference.
Good to know, thanks :tiphat: . I already have one of them on my Mjoelner Fenris quad +1 (zeroing) sticks.

Guessing the weight shown is all packaged up, as 500gr of carbon must be more or less solid coal! Thanks again.
 
I bought the 4 Stable Stick Mountain Sticks, which are very similar. They're very light, silent, quick to set up with a little practice and very, very stable. The one thing I think they wouldn't be great for is close range stalking of muntjac in the undergrowth, which involves a lot of tracking while you wait for them to stop between two twigs for more than half a second. For that I'll probably keep using the twin sticks with a swivelling cradle. Hopefully use these in anger in April on roe.
Have you tried carrying a call or even coughing at the correct moment to stop them PM? Sounds like you don't and haven't. I use quad sticks exclusively and shoot a lot of munties. They're great because they're so stable that you can thread your bullet through very small gaps in the vegetation. You don't need to track them a lot at all. you simply set up your rifle so that you can intercept them in a suitable gap that they're heading towards. If there are no gaps it's doesn't matter what sticks you're using. If you're using twin sticks you're probably not stable enough to shoot through small gaps so miss lots of good opportunities. If you get out and practise you will see what I mean.
 
A neighbour here has just sold on his triggerstix and has bought the Jaekle 4 leg unit with the turning top bit, he reckons it is a far better solution as he stalks into boar a lot.
 
A neighbour here has just sold on his triggerstix and has bought the Jaekle 4 leg unit with the turning top bit, he reckons it is a far better solution as he stalks into boar a lot.

Surprised by that as I thought the tracking head on Blasers would be better on boar. Never shot them so that’s an ill-informed view but having stalked with a guy who uses a set of Z4s the only advantage they have is their rigidity - very useful in probing bogs! With the Z4 as with some other quads you have to learn to quickly lift a foot to pivot the sticks. Arguably, the Z4 are worse as the rifle is trapped in fixed yokes whereas with Viperflex, Seeland, Bushwear, etc you do have some panning width on the front rest. Just my thoughts - others are available. I machine the Blaser spigots to fit Spartan adapter and add a magnet that provides a quick positive engagement- again speed was essential for boar off sticks I thought.
 
A neighbour here has just sold on his triggerstix and has bought the Jaekle 4 leg unit with the turning top bit, he reckons it is a far better solution as he stalks into boar a lot.

I have a set of these sitting about. Very nice to carry as they are a single pole when closed instead of 4 poles in a bunch. Stupidly strong as well I have hung large fallow bucks up with them through the back legs. Wouldn’t be doing this with aluminium or carbon viper flex or Blaser sticks.

Downsides are although they have a pan it’s less than the Blaser ones but about the same as Viperflex. They are also a fair bit heavier than carbon sticks.
 
A neighbour here has just sold on his triggerstix and has bought the Jaekle 4 leg unit with the turning top bit, he reckons it is a far better solution as he stalks into boar a lot.

Could anyone explain to me why he is using stirrup on minute 4:49? As I understand, it is elastic to pull the stock to the stick, but what benefit does it give? Stock sits on sticks anyway, so should be stable and, since rifle is not too light, should not need an additional pull for stability from recoil
I’m missing something…
 
Could anyone explain to me why he is using stirrup on minute 4:49? As I understand, it is elastic to pull the stock to the stick, but what benefit does it give? Stock sits on sticks anyway, so should be stable and, since rifle is not too light, should not need an additional pull for stability from recoil
I’m missing something…
It’s to stop or reduce the “rock” backwards and forwards that can happen with sticks. Kind of like the 5th leg principle on Viperflex.
 
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