Thread: Shooting without a bipod

It's interesting to watch the hunting rifle trends over the decades. Due to the power of advertising it seems many new hunters (and some experienced ones too) have convinced themselves that you have to have a Hubble type scope weighing half a kilo or more, a suppressor and a bipod plus numerous other pieces of superfluous kit. Whatever happened to the KISS principle?

Cause depends on the hunting you doing. No bipods bushstalking or huge scopes . Notice with some of the newbies even bush stalking they all want a rest of some sort. Tree to lend against, lie down and sort a rest with the back pack etc etc. Prob the best way to lose a animal in the bush. Often the deer have already seen you and shooting off hand is the only way to go keeping your movement as small as possible. More people have to practice off hand shooting more, esp close quarters stuff in the bush as looking at moving to the nearest tree is sure to end in no animal many times.

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

It's interesting to watch the hunting rifle trends over the decades. Due to the power of advertising...

A little sidenote.
For many, many years we shot thousands of thousands of moose with anemic 6,5x55 loads here.
After 30 years of "velocity" advertising it is hard to believe that these moose was actually killed by these slow bullets.

When I built a 6,5 Grendel bolt rifle (2400-2500 fps bullet) I did a survey with other Grendel users. What did you shoot? How far was it? How far did the game run? The result was basically an echo of theanemic 6,5x55 moose experience...