I Need Help Making/Painting Home-Made Shooting Sticks

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YoungBuck

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i am 5'6 and i am going to attempt to make shooting sticks for something to do.I will need them for when i am sitting down. I read the varmint al page, and i think i will make those, unless someone else has a better idea. What height do i need to cut the sticks to?
Also, i need help on painting camo on them, i will probably make 2 pairs. One for snow, and one with just regular camo.
If anyone knows where i can get like camo stencils online, or something along those lines please tell me. Also, feel free to post pictures so i can see Your homemade shooting sticks.Feel free to also give me any tips that you have for me.
Thanks
 
As far as height, sit down how you would when calling. Use a double checked to be unloaded rifle to aim "uphill,and downhill" use a solid yardstick as a shooting stick as a brace. This will give you an idea for height.

For camo, I doubt you will gain anything from stencils. The small diameter of the stick will be useless to print a usefull pattern on. Just use some flat spay paint to break up the outline if you want.

I use the metal sticks so no point in posting pic's. The Varmint Al Fur Sticks are a good plan If you want to save money, they should work just as well.
 
I use a metal bipod that has adjustble legs. Before I found this one I made a set to Varmit Al's plans and they worked well and were easy to carry.

Stencels work well on rifles and even scopes, but with the small diameter of shooting sticks it's harder to paint. use a ceder branch with about half picked off or just multi-color it with two or three different paints. Mine are black and my gun is black and wood. I wear minimal camo and it doesn't seem to matter to the yotes. Movement is more of a problem than lots of camo for me anyway.
 
If you re-read the Varmint Al's site, I think he gave the measurements based on your height.

As far a painting them, I bought the cheapest camo paint I could find at the local farm store and dusted about three different colors, using three light overlapping coats. I had some old leather lying around and made the rifle rests out of strips of it and attached it with glue and nails....

I'd go take pics, except they are packed to leave for Globe in the morning...
 
I used 5/8" dowel, # 10 machine screw w/ nylox nut. but I also put another piece of dowel about a 1 1/2" long in between the main shooting sticks because I wanted to put more padding on the part that my gun rests on . for wrap on the sticks I just used some scrap camo that I had from some old camo clothing.
 
Go to your nearest farm supply store and buy 2 fiberglass electric fence posts they are about 1/4 inch to 5/8 in. in diameter cut to about 36in. also buy a bag of casteration rubber bands they are heavy green bands slide several of them down on the sticks to a point where you have enough area for your rifle to rest on with the sticks spread out. sharpen one end of the posts and camo paint to your liking total cost less than ten bucks and they work great
 
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These sticks are homemade, I bought 2 golf clubs from the Good Will store (Woods 1 & 3, $2 each)...cut the heads off to leave the shafts the same length, then drilled a hole, and ran a machine bolt through and then 2 nuts to lcok them into place...pain the lower half flat black, and there you have it...

Leather grips provide safe and slip free surface for the rifle, and I have killed 2 coyotes and a dozen crows off these.
 
I cut the legs off of a folding lawn chair (the part that intersects and spray painted them flat hunter green. Then went over it with brown and black spots. They work great!
 


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