Shooting from a tripod

[Elkangle]

So im really new to the "prs" world....saw some youtube videos and realized i could use some techniques and apply towards hunting situations..

Awhile back i purchased the spartan Sentinel Tripod thinking it would make a decent multi use item for mountain hunting, tripod for glassing, bipod, hiking sticks....and after messing around with it i really think its going to work well for that....but my problem is weather or not to drill a hole in my $700 stock and put a mounting bracket (basically a flush cup) infront of the action....this would allow me to mount the rifle to the tripod just like all the PRS guys do.... obviously they do this for a reason.

While standing is it a pretty dramatic difference between a tripod mounted in the middle vs the end of the stock ?? How about while sitting?? My accuracy was pretty poor while standing but sitting with the tripod arrange as a loaded bipod was pretty impressive...not problem holding under 1moa with my 8 pound rifle and backrest @ 711 yards.

If your not familiar with the spartan tripod heres a video that kinda shows what im working with.



Appreciate everyones thoughts

 

[TanktheFrank]

Does it for sure have the threaded bolt section coming up from a shoe or mounting plate? I found that a flush cup mount or piece of rail didn't give me the stability that I wanted and made a saddle type rig for mine. Too broke (college budget) to get a pig saddle for now. My application was specifically hunting. Used it to coyote, deer, and hog hung with success on 3 seperate rifles. 6.5, .308 and .300 winmag. Practice makes perfect, so practice the weird positions, because I have had more shots in the field from one of those than the normal sitting, standing or the like.

 

[TanktheFrank]

Setup in the middle was best for me

Please excuse the dorkyness from the last one, a client of mine asked me what my firearm kit was for extended pig hunt trips in south texas lol

 

[nexusfire]

They are the way to go for hunting IMHO. My 14 yr old shooting a Texas Dahl sheep.

 

[MarkCO]

The attachment has to be solid, stock to tripod, or you are wasting it. Most PRS guys are using an ARCA rail on the gun, clamp on the tripod. There are cheaper ways to go, but you can get into an ARCA clamp and rail section for about $70 that will work fine.

Apart from the solid mount, the stability comes from creating triangles, the more the better. A sling (arm or foot, or both) attached to the gun in addition to the tripod adds stability, the more you get, the more stable.

 

[Stpilot12]

Lowlight has a few really good videos on his channel about tripod technique..

Looky here

 

[strikeeagle1]

^^MarkCo - Point nicely made. The triangle application is quite relevant; the mastery of applying the strength of the triangulation setup to marksmanship, using the tripod, is a useful course of study.

https://techblog.ctgclean.com/2012/10/the-strength-and-mystery-of-triangles/

https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_trusses_lesson01

 

[Elkangle]

So from a pure accuracy stand point do you guys not like how the spartan design connects to the rifle ?? Its not perfect but idk how much it affects the accuracy on my hunting rifle....now if i had a 14 pound prs gun then maybe i could shoot the difference

 

[aam]

The triangle application.

 

[Mike 556]

The attachment has to be solid, stock to tripod, or you are wasting it. Most PRS guys are using an ARCA rail on the gun, clamp on the tripod. There are cheaper ways to go, but you can get into an ARCA clamp and rail section for about $70 that will work fine.

Apart from the solid mount, the stability comes from creating triangles, the more the better. A sling (arm or foot, or both) attached to the gun in addition to the tripod adds stability, the more you get, the more stable.

Recently started the venture into long range, now I'm searching for a tripod system. Mark, you've been extremely helpful and generous with your wealth of information.
Thank You,
Mike

 

[strikeeagle1]

There are more position stability triangles (isosceles, right angles) to be included, just not clever enough how to cleanly illustrate them. As mentioned the composite triangle builds, shooter(#3,#5,#7)and tripod(#1,#2,#4,#6), are connected at a single rifle attachment point emphasizing its importance in stability construct.