what's the most stable way to shoot a rifle while standing? do you guys use the 'arm through sling' thing to take standing shots?
what's the most stable way to shoot a rifle while standing?
what's the most stable way to shoot a rifle while standing? do you guys use the 'arm through sling' thing to take standing shots?
Arm through sling. It gives you the most stable position.
For my Savage axis with wraith 4k, I do the Olympic target stance. My twig arms can't support it otherwise.
>do you guys use the 'arm through sling'
If I have to take a standing shot, yes. Though I try and avoid that if at all possible, it's always more accurate to shoot from a sitting or prone position, to use a support like a tree, fencepost, shooting sticks, etc.
>assume your hand-to-hand fighting stance
>make sure you have stable footing and good balance
>pick up the rifle
It's that easy
Shooting sticks. It doesn't work for me as a squirrel hunter (yet, need to practice) but you could easily shoot deer, probably down to coyote and even fox at 50-100yds which is pretty realistic for my state. Or groundhogs up to maybe 50-75yds. Could go fancy and use a shooting stick set that has three legs or even go for those weird-ass shooting stick sets that support the front and rear of the rifle (too much bullshit for me to deal with on fast game, too much shit to drag around).
I personally kneel or sit and use the shooting sticks. Just always been my preferred shooting position since I started hunting even before I had the sticks.
Based fellow squirrel hunter. Just brace the 'ole 10/22 against the nearest oak tree and headshot the tree rats. Pic very rel
Working on that; we have way too many trees and too much brush to be able to get a good shot often. I prefer my shooting sticks while sitting. Working on standing and then working on trying to brace it. Used to brace my gun against trees a lot but now where I hunt, there's a lot of trails meaning no trees to brace on unless you can find a gap through the treeline you'd be using to get a tree to brace your gun on (near impossible). I tend to sit and wait anymore. Could use a tree to help with standing shooting with sticks though.
How much meat is even on these?
We have pretty big fox squirrels up where I am. After skinning& gutting there's about 1.5-2 pounds of meat, which is a lot for a squirrel. When I hunt down South with buddies it's mostly grey squirrels and you'll only get about half that amount of meat per squirrel.
I normally cut off the hind legs to make breaded "squirrel wings" out of and then save the body for stew.
Gotta adapt to the area you hunt& it sounds like you've got a pretty good method. I wish you happy hunting my small-game slaying friend
Those sound pretty large. Where I am it's Eastern Greys and Reds. Fox are rare unless you find a pocket of them.
PS: Back to hunting methods, a single post spike seat is a godsend. Basically Y shaped with a piece of fabric stretched across it. Mine folds the seat flat and the post can unscrew to stow it away or add a little extra length. It does eventually wear out the hole the spike makes in the ground so it isn't totally rigid but I'm trying to figure that out. Maybe I can put a huge dog leash tie out screw where the spike attaches and get a sturdier seat; dunno. It does allow you to get a little extra height off the ground which can be nice considering all the uneven ground here.
Seems interesting, would definitely beat the hell out of sitting on the ground waiting for arboreal rodents to poke their heads out. I just got a squirrel dog so i havet been doing much sit-hunting recently, but it's not out of the question
And yeah the fox squirrels are really big and really common in this Northern half of the state, but you go 1.5 hours South of here and it's all greys (which still taste good). Never shot a red though, not too common here& they're just so small
Yeah, I use the seat with its teeny tiny pole (not the ~18" one or both together) to get myself maybe 16" off the ground. It's mostly for keeping the ticks off my ass as they hide in the leaves. Had to temporarily stop hunting an area I used to frequent due to a massive increase in them to the point I'd be brushing off multiple every couple minutes. The seat helped but not much. IIRC also helps in winter to keep the frozen ground off you so you can stay a little warm, especially when there's snow as well.
>massive increase in them to the point I'd be brushing off multiple every couple minutes
man fuck that
Yep I totally wrote that section of woods off for 3/4 of last hunting season. The funny thing is it's literally a ~60' square section of woods which goes downhill in a bit of a "crease"; I hesitate to even call it a small valley as it really isn't. I have no clue why they were so numerous in that area and not the surrounding woods. Pissed me off too since that area is where I got the closest I've ever gotten to a fox...only to lose it by looking down for THREE SECONDS and not noticing it until it was heading downhill. Walked literally right by me. The other squirrel hunting spot I had also had a ton of ticks last season but nothing like that. They really didn't multiply like crazy there, though; it was mostly when I sat in the leaves for an extended period. I think I ended up staying near the borders of that area and they really didn't bug me much. They hid in the leaves in both areas. Brushing the leaves away before sitting had a negligible effect. The second area is probably 250yds x 150yds max, wooded downhill with trenches water seems to flow down and create 5-6' tall eroded "creases" in the hill. Only those two areas. Other than that I got some in grassy areas when I cut through treelines which was to be expected since they were really overgrown and I don't think any other hunter is crazy enough to crawl through that shit. And that was in early spring anyways IIRC?
I'm pretty sure they're more common in lower, wetter areas where rainwater runs down, but they're anywhere and everywhere
i was sitting out on this rocky area for a while, and after like 15 minutes sitting there i glanced down and there was a tick making a beeline for me. those little fuckers can detect you exhaling and there's nothing you can do about it
I want to get one of those thermacells. Maybe it'll keep them away. If not at least the gnats and the mosquitos.
That's brutal. When I hunt with family in the state to the South, myself and my dog always end up absolutely covere in those itty bitty little seed ticks. So small they look like freckles until you see 'em move, and they seem to hang out in clusters. Hate those little bastards like you wouldn't believe. I pretty much avoid the woods entirely in that area until mid-November simply because of the ticks
Should clarify, in the first sentence I mean that it's hard to get a shot from a tree brace position because often other trees or brush will block you from the closest trees you can get to without spooking game. The sticks just allow you to shoot from anywhere unless hills or random cover get in the way when you kneel.
They're ~2lbs with guts IIRC. So probably 1-1.5lbs of meat. The rear legs have the most meat followed by the front, then you can get backstraps, shoulders, etc.
Fighting stance, hold tight pull into shoulder a bit, use sling retention methods. You really only should be using adjustable 2 point slings the rest are memes.
>there actually dumb naggers out there spending their time on hunting and cooking and eating squirrels
you can’t make this shit up
Not everyone has diverse wildlife in their area. Squirrels are everywhere and can make for interesting targets if you have a population that know when a human is about, one of them is going to die, so they leg it and hide. That and they are pests in a lot of places so its productive to go about turning them into meat piñatas
>knocking chicken of the tree
Fucking queer-o sexual homosexual is what you are
>captcha: G44Y 2k
Fag detected. There is no greater joy than headshotting a squirrel with a .22 and seeing it plummet to the forest floor. Squirrel stew is delicious, and you neither hunt nor own guns.
Use a shooting stick.
>do you guys use the 'arm through sling' thing to take standing shots?
Yeah, feels the most comfortable to me.
I combine this position as well as using the sling, pretty stable when I'm shooting my 10lbs 1886.
not op but maybe i should try that. how stable can you get/what group size?