shooting sticks or bipod?

[helzbelz888]

I'm thinking about purchasing either shooting sticks or a harris bipod.... i'll be hunting high buck and eastern washington  next year  for deer. i've been debating whether to try the sticks. they seem to be lighter, cheaper and i can use them on any rifle with ease. anyone have any preference and why?

[Dan-o]

I had shooting sticks forever, but they seemed to always get in the way- or I'd leave them in the truck because I thought they'd get in the way.   Bottom line:   I never killed game with them.

I added a Harris bi-pod to my rifle 5-6 years ago, and I love it!!!!    Makes steady shooting SO MUCH EASIER.   

I'd never go back.

There are my 2 cents.

[Dan-o]

P.S.   I have some nearly new shooting sticks for sale.......   

[Woodchuck]

I use a bi-pod and it will ransfer from one rifle to another easy enough, never tried sticks but I like to have at least one hand free all the time and can't if carryling sticks. 

[uplandhunter870]

i tried sticks for one season a few years ago and what i found with sticks is that both hands were always occupied, one on my rifle sling the other carrying the sticks. eventually i ended up sliding the sticks through one of my belt loops so i could have my off hand free for moving brush around and helping catch my fall when i slipped on a hillside, sticks in my belt loop were cumbersome and got hung up  on brush ended up losing the sticks somewhere in a deep canyon.

long story short bought a harris bipod and have never looked back. yeah it adds a touch of weight to the rifle but it doesnt fill your off hand and is always there and ready to go

[JackOfAllTrades]

Inside 200yds... No support required.  Outside 200yds, you should have ample time to use your day pack, rock, tree, sitting position or something else as support. Proper use of the sling to assist in stability will do wonders for most casual or veteran shooters. Sticks are something else to carry. Bipod is added weight on the high hunt.   Bipod for doggies/sage rats and such or Antelope.

 Bipod on a 50bmg. 

-Steve

[rtspring]

I try to always shoot prone over my day pack. Never used sticks or bipod....

[deerslyr]

I have a pair of the stoney point sticks that are like tent poles and break down but connected by a string. They fit in a pouch you can put on your hip so you never know their there. Id recommend them.  If your going on the high hunt your not gunna want a bi-pod I can tell you that much.

[CAMPMEAT]

Bog Pod. Kinda big, but steady. I've got bipods, shooting sticks and monopods. Just depends on how quickly you have to set them up.

[Bofire]

  I very much prefer sticks. I use them as a walking stick, infinitely adjustable, I hate hunting or shooting prone, use on any angle or slant, killed dozens and dozens of coyotes with them, any height in a second with no clamps screws or other crap. Sticks are the only way to go.
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Carl

[Alchase]

I prefer sticks, my son and I keep a set in each of our packs that we can grab quickly, easy to adjust when setting up on a draw or field. They weight next to nothing.

http://www.stoneypoint.com/products/bp_compact_polecat_bipods.html

[trippledigitss]

You know, I use both but I'd have to say I prefer a pair of bipod shooting sticks. I have a Harris (52cs?) "swiveling" bipod on my Howa Axiom and I am not really very impressed with it. It is not really stable, a pain to adjust, and it moves around on the rifle. And it rotates or rocks side to side, not swivel left to right like you'd think. My bipods adjust like a camera tripod with the lever lock things, they have a swivel head that swings right/left, and are light and collapse small and have a strap and the bottom of the legs to keep from spreading to far. I just put the strap over my shoulder or stuff them in my backpack and never notice them. I have a mono pod too but never use it. I think I wasted $100+ on the Harris bipod. 

[trophyhunt]

I have a bi pod, the type that you carry not the one's on your gun and I love it. It is sometimes a pain carrying them around but when you need a steady shot it's the cat's meow. If I would have had them with me on the elk I got sunday with my muzzleloader then it wouldn't have taken me 4 shots to get him.... Yes I left that out when I posted my pic and story.

[Wazukie]

I have a harris 6-9  & 9-13 and I also have 36" sticks that I built out of 2 arrow shafts and some 5/16 fuel line.  Of course, I've never hunted deer with them but I do use um for yotes.  for me the bi-pod seems to be more stable, love the sticks though.  I'd say try both and use what you like.

[trippledigitss]

I'd like to get one of the Primos Trigger Stick bipod or monopods and try them out. Them seem really easy with the trigger adjust but there's no way I'm paying $70-80 bucks for a plastic bipod!