Talk:Shooting sticks (weapon mount)

Shooting sticks should have its Wikipedia article like every other non-static weapon mount type. Since, according to Mr. Boddington, shooting sticks are probably not very well known in all countries the images of professional use will explain a lot to the general public. --Francis Flinch (talk) 18:15, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Shooting Stick is a type of cane

I think we need a disambiguator on this as a "Shooting Stick" is also a type of combination cane and chair. I believe this sense of "shooting stick" is more common than the one mentioned in this article. Is the firearms rest/mount always plural? The cane sense would be singular. Gbuchana (talk) 21:27, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to add information about the shooting stick variation you known to the article. An image of this variation will be helpful, since lots readers are not familiar with these kind of field shooting aids.--Francis Flinch (talk) 07:01, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Seconding Gbuchana's concerns. In 25+ years of hunting and shooting, I have never heard this term used except in the British sense of a combination walking stick and stool. This article is the first place I had seen the other sense. Googling it, I found several supportive uses but also a number of problems with this article:

1. The term seems imprecise, and always has to be qualified as a monopod, bipod, or tripod, which would suggest that it is not a professional term but colloquial slang or a genericized trade name that has only emerged in the last 10-15 years
2. The British sense of the term originated in the 17th century and first appears in print c. 1929, and is attested in four major dictionaries (Random House, Collins, Merriam-Webster, American Heritage), none of which recognize the non-British sense of the term (reinforcing the hypothesis that this newer usage is slang or commercial in origin)
3. Because both senses of the term can be used in the singular (the monopod form is referred to by its manufacturers as "a shooting stick", not as "shooting sticks"), the article title should be singular, not plural
4. After nearly five years, the article is still completely unsourced, suggesting that this was Francis Flinch's abandoned creation
5. The sole external source is a deadlink

I suggest that—if no reliable sources (i.e dictionaries or authoritative works about firearms shooting) can be found for the newer sense of the word—the article be rewritten to refer only to the British sense of the term. If sources can be found, then the British sense of the term should be moved to its own article titled "Shooting stick", this article be retitled "Shooting stick (firearm accessory)" or "Shooting stick (military)", and the two articles linked to each other via hatnotes. At any rate, two unrelated objects with similar names should not be sharing an article, as this is a violation of WP policy. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 00:35, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I suggest googleing "shooting sticks". I got lots of results and images of the American gun support sense of the term. Googleing "shooting stick" points to the British seat sense of the term. I think it is a good idea to start an article regarding the seat.--Francis Flinch (talk) 08:41, 10 March 2015 (UTC)