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#10MinuteTalk - Positional Shooting - The Most Versatile Rifle Rest May be on Your Back

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Don’t think of your backpack as a one-dimensional item-holding vessel. It’s also your ticket to solid holds and impacts downrange - if you use it right. Forend support, rear support, prone to sitting, instructor Justin from Vortex Edge® walks through the many positions and tricks to leverage the functionality of your backpack for increased accuracy. Might as well, you probably have it with you anyway.

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0:00.0

what is up everybody if you're watching on YouTube right now you might see our

0:06.4

surroundings have changed a little bit we're down at the edge facility we're on

0:10.9

the 100 yard range I've got Jim to my left this time Jim to my left and even

0:15.6

further left we've got Justin one of our just most excellent edge instructors

0:21.8

and today we're gonna talk most excellent most excellent you're gonna have to tell

0:24.7

you guys about that you're the mostest today we're gonna talk about in in my

0:31.0

opinion one of the most versatile and functional and practical rifle rest you

0:37.5

can have and that's your backpack so right now we've got we've got an example in

0:43.0

front of us I've got it stuffed with essentially just a puffy jacket a

0:47.4

couple other you know small ancillary items not a whole lot but definitely

0:51.3

enough to help give you a rifle rest I'm gonna speak to why you're gonna have

0:56.8

those things with you a little bit later Justin's gonna speak to a lot more

1:00.2

about hunting or using your pack as a rest but let's just dive in Justin

1:05.6

yeah absolutely yeah what how handy is a backpack as a rifle rest kind of like

1:11.1

you said it's a pretty versatile right so when it comes to like shooting

1:14.9

equipment a lot of people kind of view a particular item and take it almost

1:18.8

at face value so for example if they shoot see like a tripod they just see

1:23.3

three legs on the ground they see a backpack they're like again I'm just gonna

1:27.4

put items in it and throw it on my back in reality thinking outside the box a

1:31.3

lot of different applications for that backpack shooting rests support front

1:36.6

support rear support filling gaps and minimizing that wobble zone on target

1:41.0

gotcha gotcha and like we're kind of we're static right here at the end of

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