Thread: An oxymoron?

Sitting/kneeling height shooting sticks are 100% my recommendation for that style of shooting. (Just spent the evening splatting bunnies in country just like you describe, shooting sticks used for all shots bar a few particularly close ones which were freehand standing)

Far more flexible than a bipod, in that you can immediately widen or narrow the spacing of the feet to drop or raise your shooting angle for uphill, downhill, cross-gully. Can shoot along even a sketchy steep hillside by having one stick vertical and the other wedged into the hillside horizontally - angles well beyond where a bipod would allow you to swivel.

Made some shots tonight where even I was having fun trying to stay stable on the hillside, but the sticks allowed me to rapidly turn that into a nice steady shooting position.

Takes a while to get the hang of them, but key points I have found are to have the sticks angled as far forward on the stock as possible, and try to keep the weight of the rifle pushing back towards your shoulder, rather than pulling away from you.