Sitting and Sticks

[Don McDowell]

There's a lot of problems associated with using a stool to sit on. If you go with a stool of some sort it's important to find one that combined with the stick height that will let you rest your elbows on your knees, just as tho you are shooting in the normal sitting position on the ground. That will give you the same solid support as shooting from prone. The problem with the sitting on a stool when shooting silhouette is you don't have the flexibility to change your position as you move down the bank of targets, forcing you to apply sideways pressure on the barrel of the gun to get a sight picture on the far ends of the bank of targets. Works fine for stationary things like target rifle and gong matches.