Zeroing off tripod?
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Trouble is, the mice have eaten my bench bag rests. Serves me right for filling them up with chicken food I guess
I used the tripod with the rifle clamped in place to hold everything steady while I fitted new mounts and scope, and for boresighting, and it seemed pretty solid, but I have yet to shoot off it.
OK for Minute of Deer at 100yds on Red deer broadside on.
Or a couple of bags of rice? Beats a tripod.Whats wrong with a bipod...ooh wait...you took all the useful bits off your rifle
Use a bag of feed instead
Nonsense......Tim lives in North Wales...not sure you can buy rice
With the amount of rain we get, I could probably grow my own!Nonsense......Tim lives in North Wales...not sure you can buy rice
There is another consideration:Whats wrong with a bipod...ooh wait...you took all the useful bits off your rifle
Use a bag of feed instead
I can use the tripod standing up.
Prone options would involve first spending time cutting down all the vegetation that's sprung up between my firing point and my target.
Quite, as firm as a rest as you can get, then the wheels can fall off in the field conditions.
It boils down to what is exceptiable for the end result as the most popular field rest these days are quad sticks which have changed the way people shoot. The devil is in the detail! I remember boarding a barn and pulling a string line for the nails, the bloke helping me said why are you bothering with that "Jane is a fussy mare" and will walk past these every day and will notice any out of place. So you do the ones on the ground and I will do these. Jane came around the corner with our tea looked at Peter and said "Tim is right I am a fussy mare" I see her sometimes and we have a laugh about that, but the line is spot on lol
Use a tightly rolled sheep skin for thr front rest, and a pair of dried & stuffed testicles from an old tup for the rear.
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Can't get to my little range area with a vehicle, really.
I have an old picnic table there, and usually I use bags and shoot off that.
But I was quite impressed with how stable the tripod is, which got me thinking about using it for zeroing. Particularly as, with the rifle clamped, it would be very easy to adjust the reticle to the point of impact without inadvertently moving the rifle.
It is a really wet place. We call that field "the marsh". Even in a dry summer you'd sink up to your knees in places. In winter it's mostly inaccessible.The vegetation may be be too high, it's a really wet place
Or the roof?
The vegetation is about chest height.
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