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Its hunting season. Unfortunately this sport can be an expensive hobby, but there are some tricks out there for saving a few bucks. Here’s a great tip for making your own effective and cheap shooting sticks.

“Shooting sticks can be a hunter’s best friend when that monster deer walks into your shooting lane and your blood gets pumping and the gun gets shaking. I couldn’t see paying $30+ dollars for a pair of sticks so I decided to make my own.

Materials:

• 2 3/4 inch dowel rods
• 1 roll black electrical tape
• Bike inner tube

1. Cut the 2 3/4 inch doll rods to 39 inches
2. Cover them in the black electrical tape.
3. Cut a section of inner tube about 12 inches long.
4. Cross the sticks at one end so that above where they cross you have about 4-6 inches. Wrap the inner tube piece around and around the sticks and tie it off real tight.

You now have a shooting stick that will steady your shot. Best of all they are light weight and will only cost you $5-$8.”

Tip from mongoandtard.com.

The problem with most survival kits is they are huge. You simply don’t have room in your hunting jacket for a foot long box of survival gear. Field and Stream has an excellent pictorial showing how to assemble a pocket size survival kit in an Altoids tin. The kit includes all of the essentials (besides shelter) and somehow they manage to fit it all into the small container. You can definitely tell they did their homework when designing this kit. The article is worth the read if you frequently venture into the middle of nowhere.

Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin