Stand Survey

[FlipMarine]

This is for everyone using tripods. I am curious how many people sit and how many people stand when scanning and shooting. Please reply with either "sit" or "stand" and add comments if you want to explaining why.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

 

[Heymartay]

Sit on pad daytime, stool at night. Never stand, too old, can’t hold steady enough.

 

[jmeddy]

Ditto to Heymartay!!! Though some of my last shots say maybe I should be carrying a shooting bench with me

 

[AWS]

For me it really depends on the stand. There are places where the only way to call an area is to stand, for me a tripod mounted rifle is great, juggling a rifle and remote using tall cross stick is not very successful for me. Most of the time I shoot off a stool with cross sticks. They just give me more freedom of movement. I am experimenting with a tripod and stool to see if it is anymore accurate at longer ranges. We have very long strips of grass between waist high sage and greasewood that it might bee advantageous to use a tripod sitting.

 

[DoubleLungRage]

Sit day time because I am trying to blend in.

Stand night time because it's dark.

 

[bowhunter57]

Sit on a turkey hunting chair and my rifle is on a bi-pod, facing the general direction of the decoy/e-caller. Until a coyote shows up, I'm sitting still and scanning with my eyes. Daytime only hunts.

 

[Spurchaser]

Stand…otherwise I ain’t seeing anything.

 

[LONEHOWL]

Sit day stand or chair at night. Lot of guys say you cant use a tripod in the day because you cant maneuver well for side shot but you can.

 

[Rich1]

Sit. Normally on a hillside.

 

[hunt0168]

Always sit daytime. Night hunting I’m typically standing behind tripod but do have stands that allow me to sit on a stool behind tripod. Probably 75% standing to 25% seated shooting at night.

 

[spotstalkshoot]

Sit day light hunts, usually stand at night. I get cold faster at night and sitting makes it worse.

 

[shoots100]

Sit day and night.
Because I use a trigger stick I can easily stand up to shoot if necessary.
SJC

 

[K9TXS]

Sit.

Daytime hunter only. Small folding stool with back rest.
Bad knees will not allow me to stand for long periods of time. By sitting, this allows me to change locations easily since my knees were at rest.

 

[K22-hornet]

Sit on a foam pad, and use crossed sticks.

The sticks are tomato stakes from Home Depot, for about $1 per.

I sit to blend in better, as I hunt mostly sagebrush and grassy areas of Colorado.

 

[bohunr]

i hunt night time. i stand as we hunt open fields and they can come from basically almost any direction. standing is easier

 

[popper43]

Sit on the ATV at nite, use a trigger stick. Can't stand long or walk far.

 

[jmeddy]

Use what works for you, I just know that I am waaaay more accurate when my right elbow is on my knee.

 

[Don_P]

I sit. But then I'm in a small building shooting over the bottom half of an open dutch door.

 

[Bob the nailer]

Started out sitting at night then switched to standing as I have better mobility to take extreme right/left shots. Also when sitting scanning with night vision binos the fiery illumination of grass and twigs is awful.