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Bags for shooting coyotes off of truck hoods.

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I hunt on private property where a person might just have to stop the truck and jump out to take a quick shot off of a hood of a pickup truck. For the height of myself in relationship to my truck hood, I usually shoot the rifle with the bipod legs folded up, laying the across the hood at said predator.
Does anyone use a small bag under the bipod for such a condition? Im looking at some of the small rear bags that are used in PRS competition. There are a lot to choose from. Like holsters for pistols, a person could spend a small fortune, trying to figure which one to buy. I currently use a large crown royal bag (Half gallon Size, filled with oil dry) for rear support (I swear I found this bag on the side of the road!) and I could just use a fifth size bag for the front (If I get real lucky and find that size on the side of the road too!). Thanks in advance.
 
Yes. i have been on Tab gears site, along with armageddon's. I also have watched the 6.5 guys on youtube on their bags. I think the tab that straps on the bipod could be the one. But man, there's a lot to choose from that are very similar in size. I guess Ill just have to take the bullet and start collecting them. My shots are usually a tracking event. Following the moving coyote until he stops and offers a shot. I need something that will slide along with the bipod.
 
I run a game changer from Armegedon gear and a small rear bag from Short Action Precision. The game changer can be used alone and just about anywhere. Works great out the window, off a fence post or brace post, tailgate, etc.

For hood shooting I'd run the game changer upfront and the small bag under the buttstock.

Chris
 
In some states it is illegal to shoot from, or use a vehicle as a rest in any way either from or off the road. Check the laws carefully. JME. WD
 
Cheep but effective. Take a small book bag or back pack place a couple of those foam ball filled hot seat cushions in it. Light quick to pop on the hood or rock, ground and easy to adjust height by just bunching it up or standing it up etc. Works like a bull bag.
 
I took a pillow off the couch and have used it for yrs. In N.D. if your not on a state or federal highway you can stick your rifle out the window and shoot. You can have a shell in the chamber if your actively hunting Fox and Coyotes and its not Deer season.

Thats the law
 
Bags?? Ha! I shoot off the hood all the time. a bi-pod works just fine. I use a short one.. And it pivots so no adjusting. If it is really hot I keep a throw rug with me and plop that down first.. Faster than messin with bags.. Learn to place your fist under the stock to steady..
 
Ok, so how many guys will admit at one time or another they shot their hood or fender ?

Its ok to start the story with: "I know a guy that", [wink] we will forgive "that guy"
 
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This is what I use. Its from Short Action Precision and weighs only a couple ounces. It is perfect. I have flush cups at the rear and forearm of my rifles so I can clip this on either end. I use it as a rear bag with the bipod or as a front off of a barricade (or hood).

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FeMan said:
This is what I use. Its from Short Action Precision and weighs only a couple ounces. It is perfect. I have flush cups at the rear and forearm of my rifles so I can clip this on either end. I use it as a rear bag with the bipod or as a front off of a barricade (or hood).

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Man that’s a great idea about the flush cup swivels. The Holland bag I was talking about is just about like yours. I can add that easily. Thanks!
 
rr2030 said:
Ok, so how many guys will admit at one time or another they shot their hood or fender ?

Its ok to start the story with: "I know a guy that", [wink] we will forgive "that guy"
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IME it ain't about SHOOTNG the hood of fender it's about burning it/denting it etc........ I know personally of two pickup hoods with permanent wrinkles from muzzle blast, at least 6 with charred/blistered/blackened/flaked paint, two busted lights and one busted windshield.

And off the other end, two blown out taillights..... again, not from hitting them but from concussion.
 
When I was a teen one of my cousins who had an almost new Cadillac car with a vinyl top decides to rest his rifle on the roof of the car and shoot his very well sported out 98 Mauser in 8x57 rifle. The car was on a little angle making the far side of the roof just a might higher than the side he was shooting off of. From about the middle of the roof he put a nice slice across the vinyl top that looked like you had taken a cigarette and burned it.

Then there was a fellow in my neighborhood that deer hunted with a group of men that all went to VA every year to deer hunt. He was a big fat man that could not walk very far so they sent him down to a cross road on a dirt road on the farm they hunted in his brand new truck so he did not have to walk much. They were running dogs and he could shoot down this dirt path of a road. When he got out of his truck he placed his Remington 742 semi auto 30-06 down on the bench seat of the truck with the muzzle facing the other side of the truck. He pops the magazine in the rifle and when he hits the bolt release to chamber a round the safety was off and he had his big old fat finger in the trigger guard and that little jolt forward of the rifle chambering a round cause him to pull the trigger and with that shot and recoil and him trying to jerk his big fat finger out of the trigger guard he proceeded to fire every shot in the magazine. He blew one side of the seat support away and put three holes through the floor board and two in the center of the off side door. They never let him go hunting with them again and kidded him until the day he died asking if he ever got that truck field dressed.
 
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