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<blockquote data-quote="muleystalker" data-source="post: 1261068" data-attributes="member: 79944"><p>There again depends on the situation. Trees wouldn't work for any of my oped thingies this Hunt I Colorado. Lists of oak brush but not tall enough or sturdy enough to use. Also this is a LRH site, do most people feel comfortable shooting a deer or elk at a 1000 yards standing against a tree. It was tuff in this area to get in a good position for long shots, but I just thought ahead a put myself in places that I could get prone and the glassed from there so when I got an opportunity I could capitalize. None of the positions were the best but they were doable. On my cow at 700+ I had to stack rocks about 12" high and put a big flat rock on top to place my bipod on, because I was lying down hill shooting across a canyon, I set that up ahead of time before I started glassing that morning, and it worked great. My bull at 968 yards I first spotted him and bedded him at 1400+, I watched for 3hours while I also scanned the are for a spot to get. Loser because the wind was owing to hard to shoot from there. I set my buddy to check a spot I saw , while I stayed on the bull. He said it might be doable so I made the move and about 11 hours after I spotted the bull I dropped him. Some tes you have to find you spots to work for the style shooting you are comfortable with so you can push the odds in your favor. I had other areas I could have hunted where more animals were being seen, but it was brushy quick glimpses and fast shooting. I purposely past those spots up and hunted the harder areas even though I knew we weren't seeing as many animals, I knew if I did see one i would be able to make a shot and anchor him. Needless to say 20 something guys went home without elk even though they saw a lot more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muleystalker, post: 1261068, member: 79944"] There again depends on the situation. Trees wouldn't work for any of my oped thingies this Hunt I Colorado. Lists of oak brush but not tall enough or sturdy enough to use. Also this is a LRH site, do most people feel comfortable shooting a deer or elk at a 1000 yards standing against a tree. It was tuff in this area to get in a good position for long shots, but I just thought ahead a put myself in places that I could get prone and the glassed from there so when I got an opportunity I could capitalize. None of the positions were the best but they were doable. On my cow at 700+ I had to stack rocks about 12" high and put a big flat rock on top to place my bipod on, because I was lying down hill shooting across a canyon, I set that up ahead of time before I started glassing that morning, and it worked great. My bull at 968 yards I first spotted him and bedded him at 1400+, I watched for 3hours while I also scanned the are for a spot to get. Loser because the wind was owing to hard to shoot from there. I set my buddy to check a spot I saw , while I stayed on the bull. He said it might be doable so I made the move and about 11 hours after I spotted the bull I dropped him. Some tes you have to find you spots to work for the style shooting you are comfortable with so you can push the odds in your favor. I had other areas I could have hunted where more animals were being seen, but it was brushy quick glimpses and fast shooting. I purposely past those spots up and hunted the harder areas even though I knew we weren't seeing as many animals, I knew if I did see one i would be able to make a shot and anchor him. Needless to say 20 something guys went home without elk even though they saw a lot more. [/QUOTE]
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