Standing position cross sticks

[Capt. Augustus]

Being a somewhat stovein cowpoke, I find it impossible to sit or kneel on the ground.  Theyy haven't invented Catholic replacement knees yet.  So to stay in the local game of long range shooting I will be making a set of cross sticks long enough to stand up with.  My question is how to keep them upright while loading a lever action rifle or even a sigle shot  rifle.  One idea would be to tie them to my body to at least prevent them from falling over.

If anyone has seen them used in this way, please let me  know.

[Shotgun Franklin]

If it were me I'd tie a cord to the top end of one of the sticks and then put a loop at the free end of the cord and slip it over my wrist. Probably work best if the loop were on the wrist on the forend.

[Stillwater]

Being a somewhat stovein cowpoke, I find it impossible to sit or kneel on the ground.  They haven't invented Catholic replacement knees yet.  So to stay in the local game of long range shooting I will be making a set of cross sticks long enough to stand up with.  My question is how to keep them upright while loading a lever action rifle or even a sigle shot  rifle.  One idea would be to tie them to my body to at least prevent them from falling over.

If anyone has seen them used in this way, please let me  know.

Catholic replacement knees... What are those?

Bill

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

"They haven't invented Catholic replacement knees..."

Kneeling!

[Otter]

Make the stand-up tall sticks as you mentioned and put some extra long 3/16 or 1/4 inch spikes on the botom end to poke into the ground. Might not be allowed at a "sanctioned" match, but I'm not current on the rules. If you don't shoot sanctioned matches, it shouldn't matter.

My knees have been bad since I was this tall . . . When I was in college I woke up one morning and my knee was swelled up so much, I couldn't even get on a pair of jeans, so I hobbled over to student health in a set of gym shorts. Doc said I had "Nun's knee". I must have looked totally befuddled because then he said "You aren't Catholic, are you?"

[Stillwater]

"They haven't invented Catholic replacement knees..."

Kneeling!

That is why, back in the day, I wouldn't date catholic girls... 

Bikll