Originally Posted By: SalemDawgerWhy don't you like shooting sticks? When I first started out coyote hunting I had the long Harris bipods on my two calling guns. They often hurt me as much as they helped
There are three reasons bipods are not as good as shooting stick IMHO.
1. When the coyote come into the side of you on uneven ground, the bipod gets in your way making it hard to get on the coyote. Maybe this would not be as big of a problem in MO because it is flatter than Utah where I hunt.
2. When the coyote comes close and you have to stand up for the shot and you need to swing on the coyote, they get in the way with brush. With bipods you just leave them on the ground.
3. They are far less adjustable than shooting sticks and are slow to adjust. I like the speed of bipods.
What bipods have you used?
+1 on the trigger stick
keep in mind they are hunting totally different terrain than we are, we are hunting normally off the side of a slight hill or rise, typically in sage brush, a bipod will get hung up on this and not be able to adjust for elevation or to one side or the other very well at all, however if the ground was fairly flat and there wasn't sage brush a harris bi pod might be better. for me the stoney point pole cat works great, its got fatter feet at the bottom so it doesn't sink in soft dirt or mud. just a slip of my fingers under it will lift the rifle and adjust to about any angle a coyote can come in from.