Don,

I'll echo what the others have said - I use and recommend the Bog-Pod tripod with PSR attachment and without. In addition, I keep a pair of sandbags in my hunting pack: both window-style bags, one from Outdoor Connection and the other a ledge-style bag from Dog-Gone-Good shooting bags. You'll find all kinds of ways to use them

And ditto on being "barked" and scorched by the gap blast - BTDT, both. There's a deer on the Bragging Board that I swore I had shot myself my upper shin hurt so bad. Revolver hunting, ain't it fun?!

As an aside, stay away from Ken and Glenn - they're bad influences and enablers of the highest degree.