Thread: Steady Stix. An aid for old codgers.

Greetings All,
I was in at Chateau Jeremy's (less imaginative souls call it Rivers to Ranges) the other day and spotted a set of Steady Stix. After the normal period of procrastination I bought them. Steady Stix are a lightweight, collapsible version of the shooting sticks often used in Africa. Long term arthritis has left me with a lack of flexibility, especially in the lower back and neck, so for me a bi-pod is not an option. Dave Scovill, who was for a long time the Editor of Handloader and Rifle magazine used them extensively shooting his lever action rifles so the Stix looked like a good option.
Today I took them up the back with one of the .22's for a test. The Stix are intended to be used sitting and you adjust the height by walking the legs out or in and this worked better than I expected. The Stix also look a bit flimsy but a pretty steady aim was possible. After a few test shots at 50 metres I moved back to 100 metres for which is the rifles zero. Five shots went into about 65 mm from a not to comfortable sitting position on a slope. 65 mm may not sound all that flash at 100 metres but it is considerably better than I can do sitting without the Stix. We have a range day this Sunday so some testing with some of the centre fires will be on the menu. I just need to find some more old codger accessible likely spots for a bit of sit and watch.
Regards Grandpamac.