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Shooting sticks on the cheap.

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#1 ·
How about a nice pair of shooting sticks that cost near nothing to build?

Stuff you need:

Two 36 inch half inch dowels

1 10 to 12 inch piece of 1/2 inch inside diameter tubing.
Radiator hose, automotive water or fuel line or clear tubing at the hardware store works.

Two 2 inch deck screws.

Two 3/4 inch nails

Two 1/2 inch nails

Two cans of inexpensive spray paint, colors to your choice.

Here's the dowels and tubing. I found this re-inforced clear tubing at the local Tru-Value hardware store along with everything else on the list above. You can see where I marked the tubing to be cut. The reason for four dowels and two pieces of tubing is I made a pair for the Grand daughters.



Cut a notch out of the tubing in the middle about 2-2 1//2 inches long. Leave about half the thickness of the tubing in the middle.



Drill a small hole an inch deep in one end of each dowel for the deck screws.



Put the deck screws in so they have around an inch or so protruding. I left the heads on the deck screws, but you can cut them off and grind them to a point if you want. Leaving the heads on holds as well as a point and if you've got youngsters it won't stick them.



Slip the dowels into the tubing like this.



A couple of brads in the tubing keeps it from slipping. I put a 3/4 inch piece on the bottom with a couple of short brads just cause it looked neat.



Spray paint with a light base color then daubs of a darker on top and your done. There's no need for a pivot point on these and just adjusting the leg width on the ground you can adjust the hight. Great sitdown shooting sticks for just a few bucks.

 
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#30 ·
I tend to use just one stick when standing and kneeling but I do have a stick which covers both single and bipod for sitting. I found two old golf clubs with wooden shafts(hickory) I cut the heads off, removed the leather handle wrappings and then epoxied the joints from a drain rod on the thick end. I then cut a short length of leather about 7 inches by 1 1/2 inches, punched a half inch hole at each end which I then slid up each shaft. One side I fixed and the other is loose but stopped from sliding down by two rubber sealer rings this allows the sticks to be screwed together.
I can therefore use the stick as one piece which is what I prefer; acts like a third leg when stalking, but quickly unscrew and form into a bipod if I am able to sit down.
 

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#33 ·
What I really need is a tripod. Problem is i have no one to carry it for me. My son is grown and my wife refuses. I have not been satisfied with a mono-pod. I bought a commercial bi-pod a number of years ago. it is better than a mono-pod, but not much for a walking stick. I am trying to figure out how to make a standup height tripod that collapses into one unit to use as a walking stick. I have to have a stick as my back is busted up and my legs don't work real well any more. I am considering making a tripod with a sheath of some kind that would slip over the three legs at the bottom. This would have a single surface in contact with the ground when walking, but could be slipped off quickly so the legs could be spread when one needed to shoot. Every idea i come up with seems bulky and and hard to manage.
 
#35 ·
Been using that design for about 9 years, works great for gophers and PDs.

Only changes are:
I use a round vaccum cleaner belt to hold them together.
Mine are stained gunstock walnut.
AND
I have a third dowel, 2 inches shorter than the other two; makes it a tripod..very very stable.

One 12 inch piece of copper mending pipe is cut to make 3 furrels. So it comes apart and fits in my airplane guncase right beside my rifle. Over the years the plastic tubing has gotten hard and I've replaced it with deer hide.
 
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