Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Any way you word it. You're using a rest and it's not offhand. If offhand is the goal.
If someone isn't good at offhand shooting. They should try shooting from a knee. It's only a second of two slower than offhand and doesn't depend on any sort of rest being handy.
Exactly right. It's not. But it's better than shooting from a knee in waist high grass and briars and combined with the use of a hasty sling or even better the full use of a sling demonstrated in the links I've provide twice in this thread it can extend your range enough to elicit a "wow" from most people. If you have time to use a shooting stick to then you are pretty competitive with a bench position.
Proper use of a shooting sling alone will probably double just toughing it out mountain man style and it will let you stand there with a rifle on target 10 minutes or more waiting on a deer to take one more step, AND hold the rifle there ON TARGET the whole time. I've done it many times waiting on a beaver to "just come back out of that hole" one more time, just using the hasty sling.