Primos 2-point gun-rest - any good?

[Gunner223]

Easy really, but im lucky i have a workshop here, pm me your details and you can have a look at what ive done, as your oxon we might not be to far from each other.

 

[pazmino]

PM sent.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

Tim 243, I too love my quad sticks, but I'm starting to find that I'm losing shooting opportunities (particularly when out foxing) if I have to turn around quickly. I often set the rifle up on the sticks in long grass at the edge of the field – if something emerges to one side I find lifting the sticks plus rifle clear of the grass and setting up again makes quite a disturbance. That's why I like the idea of having something of the stability of the quad sticks, even if not quite so good in that respect, while being able to silently swivel 180 degrees.

How tall is the grass we are talking about? I use quadsticks and there is a technique to lifting and spinning around that works very well.

 

[pazmino]

How tall is the grass we are talking about? I use quadsticks and there is a technique to lifting and spinning around that works very well.

Not too tall at the moment, about a foot or so I suppose - just typical uncut field margins. But I find the grass often catches in the legs as I'm lifting the sticks - I have the sticks made using plastic-coated garden canes that MonkeySpanker off this site posted instructions for. And in order to turn them, I have to lift them high up, clear of the grass, and with rifle on them it's all a bit of a palaver, and certainly not the quietest of operations!

 

[Ranger22]

Not too tall at the moment, about a foot or so I suppose - just typical uncut field margins. But I find the grass often catches in the legs as I'm lifting the sticks - I have the sticks made using plastic-coated garden canes that MonkeySpanker off this site posted instructions for. And in order to turn them, I have to lift them high up, clear of the grass, and with rifle on them it's all a bit of a palaver, and certainly not the quietest of operations!

I just pivot on one side of the quad sticks and swing the other side round to where I want it. Most times it works, only time I struggle to swing it is on a restock site where the hag and brash are deep and heavy

 

[The Singing Stalker]

I just pivot on one side of the quad sticks and swing the other side round to where I want it. Most times it works, only time I struggle to swing it is on a restock site where the hag and brash are deep and heavy

What I was going to say...

 

[Alantoo]

Tim 243, I too love my quad sticks, but I'm starting to find that I'm losing shooting opportunities (particularly when out foxing) if I have to turn around quickly. I often set the rifle up on the sticks in long grass at the edge of the field – if something emerges to one side I find lifting the sticks plus rifle clear of the grass and setting up again makes quite a disturbance. That's why I like the idea of having something of the stability of the quad sticks, even if not quite so good in that respect, while being able to silently swivel 180 degrees.

If you are setting up and waiting, would it not be worth treading down the grass in the area so that if and when something does appear to one side, you can easily swing one leg of the quadsticks? Do a couple of trial swings over your safe field of fire to ensure both your feet and the stick's feet are unimpeded

I have also wondered about a two point support from a tripod. I concluded that the reason quad sticks are so stable is that the arc the gun is travelling through, to alter the elevation, has such a long radius. The fulcrum is at ground level, and a couple of millimetres of body wobble only translates as a few minutes of rifle arc.

If you raise the fulcrum to the top of a tripod the arc radius is 95% less and therefore the adverse effect of any body wobble is consequently 95% greater.

With the tripod, what you gain in "swing ability" you lose in the steady transverse hold and the slow change elevation / micro controllable height adjustment of the quad sticks.

If the range is short and you are confident with the stability afforded by tripod system, then as others have said, that swing ability may take priority. But it can only ever be less stable.

Alan