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Offline Yel95

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ENCORES AND TREESTANDS
« on: June 19, 2006, 01:43:57 AM »
Took my 270 encore to the hunting club this weekend to practice shooting from my climber stand.  Do you guys have a techique to help hold steady on targets?  I shot freehand and did really good but not as accurate as I want to be.  What do you suggest?
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2006, 07:54:32 AM »
Put a shooting rail on the tree stand or use a shooting stick. I put shooting rails on all my tree stands.  :D
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« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2006, 03:49:53 PM »
I use a summit climbing stand and it has a padded bar in front. I keep my seat low enough so I can use the rail as a shooting rest. do not rest the barrel it's self on the bar.
You can get an old ski pole and make it into a shooting stick, you will need the large round foot on the ski pole to keeep it from slipping between the slots on the stand.

I also use a ez hanger that I screw into the tree close to me and I use a very heavy duty wire tie ran trough the rear sling swivel to go over the ez hanger hook. this keeps the handgun very handy and I can move it around if needed.
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2006, 11:56:03 AM »
A rest is absolutely necessary for me when shooting an Encore pistol. Encores are just a little large for me. I like to  rig an Uncle Bud's Bull Bag to shoot from. I was able to take a 225 yard deer with my Encore .308 pistol from the bag and it was not a difficult shot to make because of the stability of the set up. I know, this is more like being a deer sniper than a deer hunter and I agree. But it was a clean kill---bang-flop. No lost or wounded game. My most rewarding kills have been still hunting while sneaking through the woods. But I usually hunt public land and a guy might just get shot doing that in Wisconsin. (I never worried about that in South Carolina.) My G2 and Contenders get an improvised rest or shooting sticks. Gene
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Re: ENCORES AND TREESTANDS
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2006, 12:00:26 PM »
I used a stick I cut that is forked on one end and about 5' long in 2005. I could rest one end on the toe of my boot where my foot was resting on a step of my ladder stand and put the pistol in the fork. You can usually rest your elbows on your knee or on the side rail of a stand to steady the shot. I'm too cheap to buy one of those shooting sticks when I can just cut one and besides I leave them laying places when hunting on the ground and then can't find them.
I made a 225yd shot and a 140yd shot with my 6.5 Rem Mag Encore last year on two whitetails. Very steady to shoot from. I even used the stick one day while walking. I just knelt down and put my hand around the stick and rested the barrel on my hand, against the stick and made a shot on a coyote. The Stoney Point single shooting stick is great. I tried one of my buddies and it worked just like my hickory stick. I have two or three now banging around in the back of my truck.
If you have a rail on your stand that is good also.
Good luck on your hunting.

Mike
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