Kneeling Position
A kneeling firing position that trades some stability for a faster setup and a higher line of sight over intervening cover.
In the kneeling position the shooter drops onto the firing-side knee and supports the rifle by resting the support-side elbow on the raised support-side knee, with the body weight settling back onto the heel. It is one of the standard positional-shooting stances and sits between sitting and standing in steadiness, useful when terrain or vegetation forces a higher line of sight than prone or sitting would allow.
Because only a single point of bone contact braces the rifle, kneeling is less stable than the sitting position but considerably steadier and faster to assume than offhand. Adding a sling looped to the support arm tightens the connection between rifle and body, removing much of the wobble that otherwise makes the kneeling hold difficult to hold steady at distance.