Making long shots absolutely requires a rock-solid shooting platform.
“No person is going to free-hand one and hit one, that’s for sure,” Joe Poole said. “I’ve never shot a deer free-hand past 250 yards and hit it, and that was when I was young.”
And his Remington Sendaro multiplies the problem because it weighs in at 12 pounds.
“You’re not going to hold this one up,” Poole said.
So one of his strategies is to use a Primos tri-pod Trigger Stick and a Stoney Point bi-pod shooting stick in tandem — the former tucked under the forearm of his rifle and the latter attached via a spring-loaded knob to the butt end of the gun.
When it’s set up, Poole can walk away from the rifle. And when he’s ready to shoot, he simply makes fine-tune adjustments and squeezes the trigger.
“It’s solid,” he said. “I can actually stand up behind the gun, and it’s not moving.”
But what he actually prefers is an MTM Shoulder Gard Rifle rest.
“I’m a big sandbag person, but that (MTM) rest is plastic so you can take it in a stand with you if you need to,” Poole said.
It’s also perfect for hunting out of his truck.
“I lay it on the hood of my truck,” he said of the MTM sight-in rest.
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