Patent ID: 7500328

Claim:
A shooting stick for use with a firearm having a barrel, the shooting stick comprising: an elongated member having a barrel attachment end and an opposing end; a barrel-engaging member hingeably connected to the barrel attachment end of the elongated member and being configured to fit at least partially around the barrel of the firearm; a shooting stick storage retention clip being a single piece of resilient matter and having a barrel-engaging portion adapted to fit only partially around the barrel of the firearm and a stick-engaging portion adapted to retain the elongated member; wherein the firearm is a shotgun having a longitudinal viewing surface on the top of the barrel; said barrel-engaging portion having a semi-circular void therein which is sized to match a predetermined barrel, so that said barrel-engaging portion engages with more than half, but less than all of a circumference of the barrel of the firearm and leaving a top portion of the barrel of the gun free of any matter extending above the longitudinal viewing surface; and wherein the elongated member pivots between a shooting position with the elongated member extending away from the barrel of the firearm and a storage position with the opposing end of the elongated member in close proximity to the barrel so that the elongated member is substantially parallel to the barrel.