What are you putting it on. Also do you want to attach to barrel or stock? I have made many light weight ones that worked well but they were all different depending on rifle.

I see your username of sniper.22, I gather you long range shoot .22's. I love shooting my .22 at extended ranges, I can take a jack rabbit at 200 yards clean!

 

nice shootin.There are very few,if any,areas here to hunt with that kind of range. Good mix of woods,swamps and cornfields.

looking at a stock mount for a Marlin Glenfield 25. My e-mail is my user name @ yahoo.com if you want to send them there. Or post for all. Whichever.thanks

 

You might look on youtube. I prefer shooting sticks myself. For me, they are easier to get on target quicker with and work better if you need to change positions to track a moving target. A lot of guys just use a couple of fiberglass electric fence posts and connect them with those rubber castration bands for cattle. You can add a piece of rubber fuel hose across the top so that you can pick up your gun and move it without having to hang onto the shooting sticks.

Right now the ones I am using I made out of some old fiberglass tent poles. I put bolts in the ends of them so I can change "feet" on them depending on ground conditions. For hunting where it is muddy or when there is snow on the ground I screw on a couple of those plastic practice golf balls. They keep the sticks from sinking in, yet they don't slide out of position.

If you want them to be fairly short, like for prone or sitting right on your but you can use the hose over the top method and just pull them back under the gun and bungee cord in place for carry.

Some ideas here:
http://varmintal.com/abifu.htm

Here is an example of a pair with the hose over the top. You can make a pair like this using the fiberglass electric fence post and a piece of fuel line hose for about 7 or 8 bucks.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=529074&utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=free&utm_campaign=10611

I have a piece of 550 cord on mine for a sling and I just carry them over my shoulder when walking.

 

Go purchase two carbon fiber arrow shafts. Then underneath the front of your wood stock drill two holes one on each side at the angles you want. Cut the arrows down to length and take in and out as needed. You can screw field points or rubber blunts for the feet. This simple and very light weight, this is what I use for my 10/22 when shooting prone.

 

Learn to use a sling. A USGI sling not some UberTatical crap.

One less thing to carry and is your body position is correct almost as good and sometimes better.

 

Learn to use a sling. A USGI sling not some UberTatical crap.

I've found a USGI magpouch on a belt is a wonderful thing, but that may not work with short armed people.

 

thanks for all the tips. I know what I will be doing this week. I'll post up when I figure one out

 

We always used to just used the crossed stick method for seated/kneeling shots (two sticks about the same size crossed with the gun resting in the notch and your hand holding the sticks like the pic on this page http://sme-portalsoftime.com/photos.php ), or our packs for a rest for prone shots. Always worked well out to about 400 yards or so (not with a .22 though ) With the added benefit that you didn't have something else on your gun to weigh it down/get in the way.

Also, a hasty sling works pretty well for most people too.

 

Throw a heavy rubber band on a pair of dowels and you have effective shooting sticks

 

bipods for a 22 is overkill as the distances you will be shooting will be pretty close 100m or less usualy 50mand under

but i recomend sticks like some others have recomended or use your sling

 

Just buy the inexpensive Winchester one from Walmart for $40.

 

Sticks and slings and other things....

I have, for years, carried my emergency rations in a cloth sack, divided, half for beans and half for rice. When I need a rest, I use this under the firearm fore-end, just like you would use a sandbag. Means I don't need to carry a bunch of extra stuff.

 

my eyes aren't very good and I would prefer the steadiest aim possible when shooting squirrels and such. I'm not hunting to see how many critters I can wound. I wouldn't consider a bi-pod for a shotgun shooting at deer. I can regularly drop a deer at 100yds off hand with my scoped 12

 

If your eyes aren't very good you should get some glasses they will help your accuracy more than a bi-pod.

 

I got glasses. Accuracy comes from a steady aim

 

I have an adjustable, single pole shooting stick. I like it.

Packitup:, I had a thought for your stick/pole feet. You said you use plastic golf balls to keep the stick from sinking into the ground. What about using the end of a ski pole with the circular do-dad and the spike. The spike would still stick in and grip but the circular flange would prevent it from going further than a couple inches.
You don't have to use the ski pole ends but something similar would do the trick.

 

The point on mine sticks out about 1" past the ball so it won't slip on frozen ground. It is just about like the end of a ski pole except for the ball being round instead of flat. I have built several variations over the last 30 years or so. I like a set of sticks better for hunting and I do sometimes use just a single walking stick as a rest.

 

I like the idea of carbon fiber rods and holes drilled in stock wood or plastic then they be stored in a belt pouch or make a place to store them in the butt stock . I also thought of old tent pole with shock cord may make a nice set

 

well you can get hold of a very cheap small gauge socket ratchet wrench .. and cut a square hole the sixe of the socket in each side of the fore-stock with a chisel -

bend the wench heads using a vice so they are flush with the stock when folded up

and put 2 of the wrenches in the holes making a nice folding bipod ..

Use the locks to lock the direction of the wrenches so they fold up or down ..

simple and relatively elegant