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<blockquote data-quote="rossmallick" data-source="post: 770701" data-attributes="member: 65410"><p>Yes, stability is not "bench rest" despite what the ads say. If you are sighting in or doing long range target practice I would still go for a prone or bench rest position. However it is better than your regular tripod. Not quite as quick however or as mobile. It really depends on what the location for your shooting is going to be and how you get there. If you can drive a vehicle to the shooting spot I would take a portable bench rest. For short range hiking the fieldPod is portable enough to be carried there and for stalking to a position where you can shoot from a sitting position it is an improvement on a regular tripod. However to my mind I would not want to carry or backpack it if I were hunting on foot all day. In that case I would take the usual collapsible tri or bipod. For my hunting I would use my FieldPod that has been modified to use a standing tripod for stalking game I had spotted that was out of range. If it required running to close the distance I would not take it as it is too bulky. I modified my DeadShot because last year I spotted elk and took my DeadShot to within range but then found I had to search for an opening in the vegetation to make a sitting shot. Under pressure the DeadShot was an improvement in stability over my bog pod tripod, put in this case not critically so. The elk disappeared into the bush before I could get a shot, but it did indicate the shortcoming of a sitting only Pod. In short it really depends on the circumstances and locations where someone hunts. Ross</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rossmallick, post: 770701, member: 65410"] Yes, stability is not "bench rest" despite what the ads say. If you are sighting in or doing long range target practice I would still go for a prone or bench rest position. However it is better than your regular tripod. Not quite as quick however or as mobile. It really depends on what the location for your shooting is going to be and how you get there. If you can drive a vehicle to the shooting spot I would take a portable bench rest. For short range hiking the fieldPod is portable enough to be carried there and for stalking to a position where you can shoot from a sitting position it is an improvement on a regular tripod. However to my mind I would not want to carry or backpack it if I were hunting on foot all day. In that case I would take the usual collapsible tri or bipod. For my hunting I would use my FieldPod that has been modified to use a standing tripod for stalking game I had spotted that was out of range. If it required running to close the distance I would not take it as it is too bulky. I modified my DeadShot because last year I spotted elk and took my DeadShot to within range but then found I had to search for an opening in the vegetation to make a sitting shot. Under pressure the DeadShot was an improvement in stability over my bog pod tripod, put in this case not critically so. The elk disappeared into the bush before I could get a shot, but it did indicate the shortcoming of a sitting only Pod. In short it really depends on the circumstances and locations where someone hunts. Ross [/QUOTE]
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