Many years ago we only offered one product; African Shooting Sticks. We set out to make the best ones available and the rest of the business developed from that first, initial product. As a result of the success of our original offering, we have expanded our shooting stick line to include two grades of African Shooting Sticks (Premium and Entry Level), the same two grades in bipods and the most beautiful monopod on the market, our Seasoned Hunter Staff. Every model is designed to fit into an airline approved gun case so you can practice with the same set you take with you during your travels.

The heart of our “Premium” Shooting Stick offering is our custom designed and patent pending connector which is milled from a solid block of aircraft aluminum that is virtually indestructible. This is the same mechanism that helped us win the highly coveted “Gray’s Best” award last year and we use it on all three of out Premium Grade Offerings. Our “Premium” Shooting Sticks are really in a class of their own from both a functional and aesthetic perspective, especially when you select our top of the line Platinum version with exotic wood shafts and exotic hide tops. Our “Premium” Shooting Sticks offer:

• A positive locking connector that will not unintentionally come loose in the field that is the strongest one to be found anywhere. On every other Shooting Stick the connector is one of the weaker parts and on ours it is the strongest part.
• Unmatched functionality, noise suppression and rigidity (due to the connector).
• Shafts hand-turned from a half dozen of the worlds’ most stunning exotic woods (Platinum), Brazilian Cherry (Gold) or hickory (Silver).
• In terms of tops to pad your fore end, you have the choice of leather and either Zebra or Cape buffalo tops with the Platinum version. Gold and Silver versions come with one set of leather tops.
• Platinum and Gold versions are offered in multiple lengths so everyone can get a pair that fits them just right.
• Platinum versions offer the option of engraving your name (or a lucky recipient’s) on the connector. To make sure the engraving (which goes down to the aluminum) really pops we spray them with two coats of primer and two coats of Black matte paint.

1. Our copper connector utilizes a very simple, yet strong, metal to metal friction-fit as opposed to a wood to metal “gravity fit” that is prone to dropping legs and for that reason is usually duct-taped in place.
2. When you get our version wet the metal to metal connector contains the swelling. On the other extreme, ours are not impacted by extremely dry environments which will cause wood to shrink ( like the gaps generated in the winter on your wood floors) which will make their “gravity type” connector more prone to dropping legs.
3. When you use our version from the sitting or kneeling position, it is much easier to post the pointed metal connector into the ground than it is to do it with their non-pointed piece of wood. If it is muddy, our pointed copper bottom is also much easier to wipe clean.
4. On our version we recess the copper connector on the top and bottom portion so it is flush with the shafts.
5. On our version we put noise suppression bumpers where you need them most, on the connector, to keep them from rattling.

Our last offering, the Seasoned Hunter Staff (monopod) is a thing of beauty and one of the nicest products we make. It is designed to help those with bad knees or a bunch of seasons behind them navigate the toughest terrain with additional support and offers too many custom touches to list. More customers call us after they get theirs to comment on how nicely they are made than almost any other product we offer.

Our customers have used our Shooting Sticks to take all manner of game in dozens of different countries. Whether they were going after moose in the wet swamps of Canada or Gemsbok in the featureless Kalahari, they have performed flawlessly. If you watch “Under Wild Skies” you have seen Tony Makris use them in Africa. If it is SCI’s “Expedition Safari” with Mike Rogers, they traveled with him since 2007 to dozens of far flung hunting grounds. As seen in our ads, they have become a regular part of Craig and Donna Boddingtons’ gear.

No product like them has received such critical acclaim from the Gun Press. Be sure to go to the Product Reviews to read what some of the best known writers in the industry had to say about them and many of our other products. Jim Carmichel, the Shooting Editor of Outdoor Life and a veteran of over 40 African Safaris had this to say about our “Premium” offerring, “They are the best I have ever seen or used.”

In the hunting estates of Europe, Stalking Staffs were meticulously crafted by hand and passed down from one generation to another in very much the same way a favorite rifle still is today…..as a way to carry on the hunting tradition and provide a link to those who experienced the same thrill of the hunt previously. Our pieces carry on that same tradition. Every one is made by hand and built to last several lifetimes. Get yours today and start building memories for tomorrow.

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"I am a firm believer in "African style shooting sticks" and have been using sticks from Sporting Wood Creations for several seasons. This year Sporting Wood Creations; screw-in tripod has become a permanent part of my gear. I took them to Pakistan in January where I used them "short" to take a Sind Ibex and "long" to take a Himalayan Ibex at long range in deep snow. Right now I am in Argentina--and you can bet my sticks are here with me!"