What's the weirdest shooting positions you've ended up in?

[Paul at Fechan]

just thinking about some of the weird positions I've ended up in trying to get a sound shot in. Some that spring to mind are:

hanging off round the back of a high seat to against a branch to get a crack at a fox

couple of lefty shots and I'm a righty from vehicles

lying sideways in a wet reedy marsh to get a shot up the hill after a good long wet crawl

 

[gixer1]

Out with my dad one night sitting against a stone dyke, I noticed a roe deer to my right behind my dad, I asked him to scoot down a bit so I could put the muzzle above and just past his head.....I somewhat underestimated the sound level and shock wave that close to the muzzle! he was swearing and cursing me and I saw the hair on his head "waft" as I fired....

 

[perdix]

Backwards in a vehicle shooting one handed with a shotgun at a fox!
Result was a fox and a very bloody,broke nose

 

[glogin]

Off my dad's shoulder (he covered his ears....) not very stable too

 

[urx]

lying on my back feet off to the left with rifle making the right leg of the vee to get a bipod shot on a slope too steep to shoot normally...worked but not ideal

 

[User00030]

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[Bavarianbrit]

I was in an open high seat in Germany I got caught very short and could not make it to terra firma in time so I had to hang over the doorway with my kags down and do my business and then wow I saw a good buck undisturbed by the commotion/pong, so I got up and dropped him with my kags still around my ankles.
Naturist stalking?
Try to imagine it.
I am so fortunate that it was a very isolated high seat and I did not have the nerve to tell the host of the story.
Shooting position was normal just my sartorial condition at the time.
I guess that rules me out from any guided stalks eh?
Martin

 

[Muir]

Sitting on the ground behind the driver-side tire of a police car, shooting a revolver left handed, over my head, backwards, and over the hood of the car I was hiding behind while my right shoulder was dislocated. Had to reload with the gun barrel clamped between my knees. It was a little strange, but I was young.~Muir

 

[stratts]

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I should've tried that maybe I wouldn't have missed!!!

 

[paul walker]

I spent a while as a GPMG gunner years ago, and we practiced that position every now and then, the number two's hated it, nothing like hot brass on your neck.

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[Monkey Spanker]

I was in an open high seat in Germany I got caught very short and could not make it to terra firma in time so I had to hang over the doorway with my kags down and do my business and then wow I saw a good buck undisturbed by the commotion/pong, so I got up and dropped him with my kags still around my ankles.
Naturist stalking?
Try to imagine it.
I am so fortunate that it was a very isolated high seat and I did not have the nerve to tell the host of the story.
Shooting position was normal just my sartorial condition at the time.
I guess that rules me out from any guided stalks eh?
Martin

You should add that one to my 'Morning Constitutional' thread Martin!
http://www.thestalkingdirectory.co....nstitutional?highlight=morning+constitutional
MS

 

[jamross65]

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Is this one of those 'I have a mate...' scenarios Kris?

Just cos' we can't see your face...

 

[muddy42]

As a young teenager in the highlands, I once shot a red from an odd position. My experienced friend was in the lead with the rifle as we stalked around a steep craggy hillside. Very suddenly, the deer came into view. He loaded the rifle and sat / leant against the hill with the rifle resting on his bent knees. He gestered for me to appraoch and make the shot. Which I did, the amazing this was I hardly had to aim, he had it in the cross hairs already. Who needs a bipod.

 

[User00026]

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you see, that's one of the reasons you want to be shooter, not spotter! along with many others!

 

[6pointer]

I have made a shot halfway over a fence Ba@@,s Well and truly caught but still on sticks with the third support the Single strand of Barb

 

[the scudd]

had a lad out for a fallow buck one evening after a good stalk got in on 2 bucks, I told him to take the left one so he gets down on his bipod to take the shot but the grass was to long so I says I will lay down and lean on my back. never even thought about his muzzle being 4 inches above my ear. not a good idea an unmoderated 270. my ears was ringing for about 2 weeks

 

[Wingy]

Hanging in a leg lock over the headboard trying to get a good shot at "bat girl" after a lot of playing around I shot and scored, rolled over and went to sleep
Aaaahhhhhhh!

 

[User00001]

Shot a few deer from prone with my old GSP on my back with her nose I my ear, I swear she was trying to look through the scope.

 

[bewsher500]

I spent a while as a GPMG gunner years ago, and we practiced that position every now and then, the number two's hated it, nothing like hot brass on your neck.

I would be more concerned about the shooters balls in my face .....but maybe that is no longer a concern when you have been in the forces for a while!

 

[User00030]

yep thats not me dont think they trust enough with my 338 mate dont like the idea of any of our pl tucked between my legs either