Bipods 2018 - which type is best and how to set up. Atlas, Fortmeier, Accu-Tac, Harris etc

so to recap the bipod is a crucial system part of the system for giving you on target and keeping you there through the recoil it has to have enough adjustment that you can be comfortable behind it do the height range that you need and if you go really really stable you're going to be paying a bit in bulk and weight so bear that in mind you need to have the right attachment for your rifle arm balance most people who come on my training days and and realize that they need some some help some progress try the Fort Myer and that there they're happy it is a fit and forget bipod you put it on that easily available sling start - spigot spike adapter and that's it I can't see it wearing out there's nothing really to go wrong in it the way you adjust the feet is so simple I'd prefer it to be motorized such as hetra but for now you set it high and then you press those nice big buttons and down the leg slide it's it's pretty cool so that for most people is my recommendation it's called the Phoenix tactical in the UK but I won't bore you or the details but essentially it's also known as their as a fort myer my favorite for the big rifle for lots of adjustability so I can get the right the rifle coming dead straight back at me and keep those crosshairs in a straight line doodles of adjustment range doodles of stability is the Atlas 5h general purpose rifles you really aren't going to go wrong with an Atlas but make sure you get the modern one which has these stops on it these rubber stops that keep the ball joint centered and upright which trust me is a great improvement of the original Atlas it really is the Atlas 2.0 that bipod and it's the only version that I recommend people who have them that they're good to go you know so that's cool and then the acute axe particularly this F class one I like it a lot big steady there's a couple of tweaks I've suggested to them but essentially these guys are at the races and I must say I'm quite impressed by the amount of variation in their range you know lightweight ones short ones taller ones QR ones you know all everything's covered of different feet so yeah that they're not messing about a cute AK but Atlas are the people to beat really and Fort Myer old design that's been tweaked and is really all by pods to all men frankly it's also not completely huge so it it's super stable but it's not so big that people just laugh at it when they see it so you know it suits most people this thing don't discount an F glass bipod because I tell you what they are mighty steady and they recoil sweet anything that the target boys condone there's a reason you know these guys are seriously accurate all day what they're not doing is moving around the hill different angles different inclinations that are you know so their priorities are slightly different but with regard to achievable accuracy that is that's the standard to beat from bipods that's a Tier one always beautiful quality and that's about it guys as I say if you have an old bipod and you're used to it bear in mind that it may well be holding you back and the way to work that out is if you find yourself not just in it you should be adjusting your bipod every shot really and if your or certainly every move every movement and if you're not because the things such a pain in the ass to live with that probably means that you're cutting corners at the rear end of the rifle that is where the recourse shakes out and if that isn't in order you're going to have troubles when you start reaching out on my training days I find that people can get away with murder even on half minute Gong's out to five five and a half hundred yards when we get out to my 750 gong and start moving around the hill from there going on out I find that suddenly people struggle with vertical it's partly extreme spread in their load coach coming through but it's also partly that any bodging going on at the rear bag starts to punish you and really show up and that immediately shows the problem in the front end as I've been saying furthermore it is so frustrating for people to find the gun or the rabbit or whatever you're on and then look down to their rangefinder thereby knows they're to compare notes on the ballistics the wind with their shooting partner look back at the gun and they're pointing at a different part of the mountain that gets old real quick guys so money spent on the bipod that enables you to nestle gently and perfectly in the middle of the rear bag bipod nice is stable gun on target it is such a step forward just with regard to ease of use should we call it and that's before you get into the recall pulse which needs to come back straight and clean and sweet and if it isn't again you're back to your problem that all of your work to try and hit you half minute target it ain't gonna work because you're not shooting a system that controls the recoil accurately and by everybody Richard from sharpshooting UK here what I have got here is the culmination of ages of research by pods so many different choices these days so first off let's talk about how important the bipod is on my ballistics training days that are due in the UK once we've got the ballistics in order shall we say and we're shooting all around the hill different angles different size count what people actually struggle with the most interestingly is finding the target in the binoculars putting the rifle on it adjusting their apps and getting sorted so in other words not entirely always looking down the scope other jobs are at hand for example picking up the rangefinder and and lighting it then you go back to your rifle and it's not on the target and you've got to find it again this is what people struggle with and one of the primary issues is the bipod I must say are not looking to rail on the Harris but it is a problem for a lot of folks they get used to its functionality or lack of it and then work around it and they end up with errors in their system for example the old one the old Harris that's so hard to adjust at the front you have to reach forward and wait the rifle undo a little screw on the front of the leg move the rifle to where you think it needs to be do up the little screw get back to your point of aim check do the other leg up it's basically so hard and I know there are newer versions right but it's so hard to do that people don't do it that means that they botch things at the rear and if you aren't in the middle of your bag sweetens can be at the back you are in trouble yes you can make a minute shot fine but when push comes to shove it will let you down very quickly and you'll wonder why generally it manifests as vertical but you know there are other problems not least natural point of aim keeping the thing on the target etc etcetera anyway so if you can't adjust the front properly which is where you most of your course adjustment should be done each shot as you move around the hill looking a different target you can't get on at the front you tend to dodge the back you wedge up against the rear right up against the back or you put it up against the pistol grip or you pinched it or you put your hand under it or any manner of messing about and this is death it's death for accuracy vertical it's absolute death for natural point of aim where your gun stays on target not only because it's easy when it stays on target to get on with your life but also natural part of aim is crucial to recoil straight recoil and therefore accuracy so if the front of the system is an A okay you've got a real problem and people gets so used to it that they don't realize it's one of the main things that people tend to go home from my training days thinking that they must buy is a decent bipod the Harris you can't wear them out they were a great product but things have moved on a whole hell of a lot to help the modern marksman so I'm going to discuss a few ways that things have progressed and talk about your options in choosing the right bipod for your usage because it is a fundamental piece of kit but first things first get some coffee on the go [Applause] okay so back in the day I never liked the Harris so I used versa pod what I liked about the versa pod was there was a little bit of ball joint action going on here so what you had is this little bit of swivel and tilt and pan here and there was another model with another nuts on it that you could do up so you could tension the Bulge I mean and it would enable you to get the rifle recoiling straight and then you could nip it up a bit and it would stay on target the bipod folded away quickly by doing that and then folding up conduit Vaughn had but I much preferred the versa pod but there wasn't a lot of adjustment range they were quite sloppy and they were quite unstable a lot of distance here and low spread here low stability and they they were better at the time than the alternatives in my opinion I liked having a ball joint but you know nothing great then the Atlas came along and really changed the game because what you then had was proper QR clamp here that fitted on a Picatinny this is an ADM clamp so it's really top-quality locking really really nice piece of kit then you had some adjustability of tension like the old versa pod but you know rather rather better done and the ball joint in here enabled pan which is this and bitter tail bit of everything and that meant that you could follow targets on the hill without losing your sight picture and they had a great deal of adjustment range adjustable feet you could add leg extensions in so all of a sudden you could really upgrade the performance of the front end of your rifle with the Atlas because it's done it really tight that example let me undo it okay so you want to plan your rifle you could do that with the leg stuck in the ground and that's a lot of pan there there's none in a Harris at all okay so this is more useful and it means that you can dig the feet in because they don't have to move now a system with out ball joint that's fixed here like the fort myer to get pattern you need the feet to skid on the ground which is why they have got ski feet I note in the new versions that they've been upgraded the quality the Atlas is outstanding it's such a lovely product but this now looking back feels like a gen one and things have moved forward which is which is the nature of things then you won the PRS or the PSR whatever it's called has got this bar at the front and the back and it stopped the bull joint moving to its extreme and that means that you have well there's various things that it does but essentially it keeps you more upright in the sweet spot of the adjustability and that bipod without a doubt is what I recommend for most people wanting an all-purpose do-it-all strong but lightweight not too bulky but stable bipod if they've got a Picatinny rail look at the evolution of the species here you've got the old verse pod here which looks very tippy then on to the original Atlas which was a real game-changer and then look at the 5 H look how big and stable that is with the the different saddle at the top much more stable much tougher and more adjustment range as well also the bipod manufacturers seem to have wised up that frankly most people do not need to be 6 inches off the ground I will say to my training day clients if you lie on the ground put your arm in front of you most gentlemen these days they're not six inches off the ground they're more like a foot off the ground big big chest big strong people these days you know there is no point pricking your neck trying to get down onto a six seven inch bipod you need to be higher up and these these modern bipods really are higher basically the higher and they're more stable they're more like sort of eight inches to a foot if you see what I mean and that's much better for most modern modern people who have large chests and they lie on the ground as I say there they are not they're not six inches off the ground the original Harris sir six to nine really is designed for the bench which is a you know you could get a bit lower there but trying to see some you know 50-inch chested man use one of those bipods to engage targets up at mountain slope it's you know their their Nexus or after minutes and we've got ten hours of shooting to do you know comfort is crucial behind the rifle its fundamental to natural point of aim which is fundamental to accuracy you've got to be able to find the targets in the scope and you can't do that if you're uncomfortable the bipod is a fundamental part of this equation guys if you've got a bipod that you're not comfortable enough to have a dose behind when you're on the rifle and when you look away and adjust your whatever and then come back and your guns not pointing at the same place then you've got a problem with your system natural point of aim you should be able to be on the target you should be able to leave the rifle alone break your shoulder contact and everything roll over look at your ballistics or whatever come back to the rifle and the crosshair should not be more than a meter away from that target if you don't have that I'll bet you the problem is with the front end now obviously that's leaving the rifle in a bag and I'm aware that carrying three different height bags that's my tall one that's my medium one and I've got a little skinny one as well having three different sets of bags for different height requirements is a real pain in the arse but it is what's needed for long-range accuracy you can use a monopod and I love monopods because it stops people cheating found thee on the rear you know pinching the bag using their hands you know wedging the thing sideways all sorts of things that people do to try and get the height because there's so much height in a monopod it is a very very very useful and lightweight thing to have on a rifle on a foxing stalking rifle sub 500 yards or say one minute of accuracy and above they are brilliant I have them on all of my smaller rifles but when you're talking long range half minute targets you have got to have the gun behaving like a benchrest gun in the field and that means that the relationship the bipod and the rear bag has got to be really sweet and if that means carrying three various sized bags about then I'm afraid at the moment that's where it's at this is how easy the former which I'm machiner goes on don't one-handed while holding a camera and in that is a little bit of tilt you see which is quite useful okay let's put that one down I'll explain this one is a Norwegian bipod that uses the spigot system as well so that's one way of doing it QR Picatinny is another Harris do the sling start there we have it so looking at the spigot system moving on from versa pods which are a bit sloppy and you know there are newer better options these days this is the Fort Myer on what this is is a very simple bipod for me it's like Harris for the 21st century let's get back to the problems with the Harris the Harris does not slide back under recoil it bounces so that's a bit of a problem it's very tough and you know I'm not bashing on it but it's well known for hopping not sliding on recoil it has no pan that's the biggest problem with the Harris you can get ones that will allow you to level your candy which is useful but if you try and follow a target running right-to-left what will happen is the legs will get tension in them and then when you fire the shot that unloads and you get this lateral flick which is real trouble now the known wisdom for getting rid of that is to lift the rifle and that will detention the legs of course that's fine but immediately you've not you've lost your point of aim and you've got a reset so the Harrises is flawed there and it doesn't have pan now if you add a ball joint which is the way atlas did it the way that the versa pods did it then you solve that problem in that you've got all this lovely pan but that does complicate things slightly in that you might want that pan to be really tight you might want it to be really sloppy so then you have to have an adjustment wheel and then a lot of people who don't want to mess about are dissatisfied there are people who like to twiddle with their bipods every single shop that includes me and then there are people and I think this is most people who want to get height right and get shooting I want to mess about with anything else so this Fort Myer I think is absolutely brilliant for most folks in the clunk clicks onto the Versa pod spigots which are really easy and available and they will of course go on a sling stud not a Picatinny rail nice and simple so clunk click nice and quick and then there are essentially no moving parts the can't is taken care of by the spigot there is panning it in that your legs are on tsuki feet so if you want to pan this let me demonstrate if you want to pan this without any moving parts of ball joints you just do that and the feet move nice and easy you see so I think it's very clever that the fort myer has these big ski feet this big ski feet you see if they also level they work on most surfaces although they will scratch things that are sensitive like bonnets a little covers would be a good idea for people foxing and suchlike off their bonnets but be that as it may very simple bipod that does what you need in that with big recoiling guns they skid back which is the way to do it rather than to hop they ride the back well because they skid back you can pan because they slip on the ground rather than digging in you can load it without the thing sliding forwards there's just enough flex in the system that you can load it if you're a loader you've got you can't sort it in the spigot you can use them on multiple rifles because all you have to do is put one of these spigot adapters on all of your rifles it is a very very nice modern bipod and this is the one that I recommend to most people for most jobs their finer points of a bipod believe it or not how easy it is to adjust the height and some of them are really rather complicated let me show you how you adjust this one okay so we're behind the rifle you start with the bipod high to make it higher when the weight of the rifle is on it think what I said earlier about the old fashioned Harris you had to reach forward and bear in mind this is right at the extent of your arm you've broken a shoulder contact this is this is not good we want to minimize the amount of time that we're having to do this because we're off the target we're not looking down the scope you know we're having to get out of our position this is a bit of a headache having to adjust the bipod personally I'd like to have a little button on the stock and a little solenoid that made the thing go up and down I mean how hard could that be but at the moment we have to do it ourselves so if it is very difficult complicated to do I will not like that bipod if it's nice and easy to do event Tallyho so let's have a look here okay so I'm setting myself up I get the bag nice and comfortable in the middle of the stock not wedged up against my hand or the butt I then have to just press this and it can come down a notch do the other one with my thumb this is the hardest one and we'll talk about positioning the bipod in a minute just at the edge of my hand not too much of a stretch click down and down we come a notch at a time this is really pretty cool now getting the bipod longer is of course more trouble it's not too bad with this system all I have to do is reach push with my thumb and I've won a slot ideally you want to be coming down not going up but that is not the end of the world okay and then push that come down an inch pretty cool pretty straightforward and then I'm ready to go riding the middle of the bag gun recalls nice and cleanly so I'm quite impressed by the Fort Meyer because as I say goes on a sling stud with the converters readily available from from the versed pod system which has been around forever and there are various other converters available let me show you one of these that for example goes on a Picatinny rail and goes then to a spigot so that enables me to say run this on me on PR or you know whatever so various adapters available so yeah clunk click easy to put on very few moving parts because there's no ball joint but he doesn't like pan till any of that good adjustment range very stable and wide course with the Fort Meyer that's the system that overhangs the barrel and goes on the top so if you look at a black rifle here imagine there was a clamp on the top of the fore end there and then of the gun was suspended below it so that's another thing the format us so I run the Fortner and I like it a great deal on my long range rig I run an Atlas 5 H which is here and I'm going to explain to you now the difference between the fort myer and the 5 H so there it is on the rifle what I'm going to do is I'm going to take it off the shirt to you in my hand because there's some really interesting features with the 5 agent it's the one that I choose but it's probably less suitable for most people certainly my experience of training base the bipod that makes most people happy is to Fort Meyer because most people are coming from Harris if they already have an atlas they don't need to upgrade no problems here unless they want something bigger and more stable which is what the 5 H is over the existing atlas let me show you this one here that is the original atlas and it is nowhere near as big and burly as there is the new one on a normal rifle this is more than enough a great all-rounder but the 5 H is a big bipod for big guns and lots of stability obviously at the price the price paid is is bulk bulk weight size etc anyway let me take this off and I'll show it to you in more detail and show you why I like it right now this is the evolution of the ball-joint species what we have in here is a different way of giving the shooter a lot of adjustment okay all right about this clamp this isn't standard that's a long story but basically there's a QR picked any fit on there right so we do our Kent by sliding along these metal bars that's fine then we have a certain amount of tilt so pan in the ball joint and the feet aren't ski feed so they will dig in a bit they're kind of halfway these rubber feet they will move should you need them to on a hard surface without them kind of spiking into the ground but they don't run back like Suki feet do on balance I'd prefer ski feet but these are sort of good all rounders um anyway we've got lots of adjustment in here but again how do you give the customer what they want they might want to truly sloppy they might want it you know almost not to move so what outlets have done is they've given you a fine tuner for tension on this camp and then they put a QR here and that will start to tighten there that's getting really tight now at that point nothing really moves you see now if you wanted it a little less tight you could either undo that a little bit or you can undo this a bit so you've got essentially from really very sloppy to almost locked out and then there's a center point here which tensions this ball joint in here and there's a centre detent in it and if you put that in the middle and do that up then it really is locked for Kant as well so what and of course it's really wide it's really really thick compared to the original I mean this is a big old piece of kit but hardly something you want on your foxing rifle so horses for courses on big rifles this is noticeably more stable the other thing that they've done is in here all of these sliding parts the ball joint that grips on here all of these internal cups and cones are such like everything's metal and it is for me quite a significantly more long lasting proposition I think than the original Atlas as for the coatings well they're just absolutely incredible I've never seen anywhere on any legs really really nice pieces of kit obviously you've got your multi-angle stuff which interests me not a bit but a lot of people like it and because it means that the thing will fold so can you put on your rifle like that you see so that's that's useful so what this bipod feels like is a complete mess which is why it's not for everyone until you learn how to get it going it's a headache for example you might find that as soon as you put it on the rifle you're right over here and your legs are all twisted and you're in a mess and what you need to do is get it in the middle so that you're hanging nice and central and you can't sort it and your legs are even then you might want to nip this up actually we'll get to that you might want to adjust this do this up to the tension that you want so that it's not you know too sloppy your recalls coming straight back all of this adjustment isn't for everyone I absolutely love it having come up through versa pods and the early Atmos and I faked the recall of my shots every time so I'll get the crosshairs on the target and I will pull the gun back as if they were recoiling and I will look to make sure the crosshair comes straight up a little flick up if it goes off to the side then I will straighten the legs I'll adjust things obviously you have to get your level bubble right which means that I'll be playing with this adjustment here which levels the rifle so I love taking the time to get the rifle sliding straight back to me riding the bag at the rear perfectly we are essentially trying to emulate in the field what the target boys are doing on their sea breasts you know coming straight back as if the guns on Rails and having an adjustability at the front for me is absolutely worth the time to get it get it dead right I must say in my experience and that's pretty large of all sorts of different shooters with all sorts of different priorities I would say 8 out of 10 people want to go from a straightforward system like a Harris which has various failings say notably their lack of panel insertion to a system that's just a simple with just a few sort of moving parts to adjust but that has the increased functionality and stability and for me were not for me for them you know 7 8 out of 10 people that I see on my training days the Fort Myer system represents that easy step up without adding a load of complication but for me personally I love the 5 H on the on the larger rifles to get the recoil adjusted so that it's just coming dead straight and you could do that in half a dozen ways on this rifle a little aside the way out let's describe it okay is that this Locker should be at the front it's got a little tassel on it right and it should be at the front of the gun sort of out of reach and basically not used unless you want to lock the things solid what I do as I do not lock it in the center detent and have it completely locked up that is not what I use this this thing for what I do is I use it as a slight tensioner for the ball joint in that if you just nip it just like that it will take quite a lot of the slop out of the system in addition to this cam here so I use it all the time as just another adjustment tool and that gets me that gets me sorted so I don't run it that way I run it that way I don't use this as a lock-up I use it as a slight tensioner particularly on the can't here but lots of adjustability and toughness and stability in the Atlas 5 H it's it's definitely my favorite a word on bipod placement on a rail guys you do not put the bipod at the end of the rail you put the bipod at the furthest point forward that you can reach with your arms now if you've got longer inner arms put it at the front great but there is no point it being right at the front there if you've got short arms and you can't reach it you've got to be able to adjust it from prone so me unfortunately short arms so it has to go a bit further back on the rail and this of course is an advantage of the Picatinny systems in that you have got more adjustability as to where it goes so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to show you how the 5r adjusts the legs because they are slightly different to the other system that I showed you on the fort myer okay so you always start high when you're standing you can put the rifle roughly in the direction of the target you can line up the target that you can see with your binoculars these line the barrel up so that you're in the ballpark then put the legs high then you lie down put the bag in the sweet spot in the middle of the adjustment range of the rear and start to adjust the front down so I'll show you how that's relatively easy to do on these atlases all I have to do here you see how I can only just reach that now if that was right up at the front of the rifle I wouldn't be able to reach it so I can just tap that and it rocks down an inch in time you see using the weight of the rifle to lower it obviously the one on the left is easier to get to get the Kantian order start to tighten it up start to take the playout adjust it to where I want etcetera etc much more complicated than the former but bags of adjustment range to stabilize the ground and even straight recoil so these legs pretty good now to go higher is harder because I have to unwrap the rifle then what I tend to do is putting my finger on the side here you know the sort of safe position twist the rifle up with my hand and unweighted and then you can do that but it is a lot harder going up and down so better to start with the rifle high and lower it to your needs and you must be able to reach it right now let's have a look at some other options and hopefully this will start to inform you as to perhaps which way you would like to go in in your choices okay let's talk about these ooh tax I'm going to show you an atlas here so here's a map list let's see look at the size of that that used to be considered very burly now here's an AK you tack now it's wider lovely construction picatinny fit there's a q QR version and a normal version this whole thing tilts so you've got your your can't sorted there with an adjuster at the bottom here the feet fought the legs do the multi-angle thing if i can do it there we go 45-degree legs so the acute acts are giving atlas some competition because they're beautifully made different feet and available in lots of different sizes and lots of different weights with by that I mean this is the thin one and then there's a really burly one down here which is just sort of twice as thick different attachments quite quite interesting addition to the market objects warehouse of 70s for a few thank you and I'm quite taken by him I mean it'll take a bit for the Atlas to be beaten and I think there's a couple of areas where these acute acts can be tweaked but they're certainly going to be on people's lists so again the way that we've solved the panning situation on this is by having feet that don't stick into the ground too much although I'd prefer ski feet on these but these will sort of roll around a bit that because there's no ball joint in here it's essentially fixed but there is tilt here but these are the things you've got to consider when you're buying your bipod do I want it simple do I want it to be super adjustable so I can get perfect recoil but that's going to mean I have to twiddle it essentially every time I line the gun up do I want it to have pan-tilt etc etc you know what sort of feet do I want I know spikes look cool but if you put spiked feet in the ground you've then lost your pen haven't you unless you've got a ball joint so these things need borne in mind as I say most people just say when I start on all this and put the fort myer on and live happily ever after because this does ever think this thing and as I say most people seem to like it now this f-class version from a cute AK is really interesting you know how i've just mentioned that they don't have any pan in them which basically means you've got to skip the feet along the ground but the look at the size of this one this is the F class one I'll take it off here in a minute so this one's interesting in that it has a bow joint there that does pan now there's no can't in it but of course you can adjust each leg independently let me zoom in on this and I'll show you how it works it's very very wide and stable okay I'm going to show you the panning with the ball joint now on that bull jointing but there's no flex in it in any other plane which I rather like it's very wide very steady I think that might suit a lot of people and of course there's no side to side but you can adjust that to make sure your bubble is level by adjusting the feet independently a click at a time to get height so it's not the end of the world I'd rather have pan than can't actually because pan is so important for keeping you on target if your target is moving right let me show you this one in more detail okay so we've got a QR here which reminds me of a mountain bike whip and then it comes off the Picatinny rail like that let's have a look at this now look at that that's big and stable and this is the way these things are going really nice construction 45-degree angle if you need it that which also means they fold flat of course all right and then this one has got a ball joint here that enables pan really smooth pan so that's not a sloppy our ball joint like the old versa pod let me just show you that ten years ago to get anything you had to have this sort of globally sloppy head on here and then that would if you wanted to tilt it would go up and down and and then when you let go it would go back to the middle you see how things have improved what you've got on this new a cute AK here you could see above the five age is a damped uni directional panning ball joint with no other slop in it so you know this is a whole hell of a lot better than your old Harris if you see what I mean and look at the height and stability of that thing so there we have it there's different adjustments some of which you may or may not need there's different sizes and stabilities so you know you've got things like you do it all atlas look how skinny that is compared to some of these bigger ones but of course that's not going to I mean you can't even put these bipods on the rifle in the back where's your atlas you fold the legs up and you go you know so as I say make your choice on size then you've got to think about your feet do you need a ball joint if you don't have a ball joint you need to fit the feet to skid along the ground what about the attachment remember I was talking about the versa pod well one of the great things about the versa pod system as it came of these things called Universal spigot adapters they're only about thirty pounds and they come with a bipod to be combined separately and what that did was it enabled you to put this little tool over the existing sling stud which every rifle has and turn it to a spigot that would fit the versa pod and this was really the first system that moved properly away from the sling stud attachment that Harris uses and enabled the vers pod system to be really clunk click I mean you could slide it on and off in the flick of a wrist just like you can the way atlas went with the ADM QR clamp onto the Picatinny rail but a lot more people have got sling studs than Picatinny rail so ver spot did well here while we're talking about accu-check this is a really nice little thing they brought out recently it is a remember we were talking about the adapter from verse pod that would take you from a sling stud to a spigot well this is a sling stud to Picatinny rail converter that they've just brought out really nice quality and it's got two slots well you know two double slots of Picatinny there so that is it's a straightforward thing but I'm disproportionately excited about it because I've been really looking for a quality adapter for ages because having a Picatinny rail put on your rifle is kind of gunsmith territory whereas a converter high quality converter like that very useful that means that you can run ballasts by pods and etc etc anything that runs a Picatinny so well done aku tak that is a nice little piece of kit that and of course you see you retain the sling start there for your sling now these f-class bipods are are pretty cool actually they're very stable they will ski back on large recoil which is useful they will pen in the same way the fort myer does by the feet simply moving on the ground and they have can't in the spigot system that you'd stole them with they have that single capstan in the middle to adjust the height good adjustment range they go very low and they go quite high they're really quite a good way of solving the problem but of course non foldable look at the bulk but if you've got the room they rather good and certainly certainly an option I think more versatile would be something like a 5h Atlas but certainly you can achieve peak accuracy with one of these if you have got the room for it just a quick word about bag riders these tactical stocks are great in that they're really adjustable and you can get them to fit people which is important but they tend to write the bag real bad if you look at that slope on that rifle as you move the bag back and forwards you get elevation in the system which is useful but you know it writes the bag nice and clean especially if you take the rear sling stud out now on a tactical rifle yes you could put a monopod on and I love monopods for closest stuff and portability but for real long-range precision sub half-minute stuff they aren't quite as good so you're left riding the bag with a flat jagged piece of Picatinny rail which is just death so what people who want to shoot long-range precision with chassis style rifles tend to do is have a bag rider made now this one is from the shooting shed in the UK they make all sorts of lovely bespoke stuff notably AOL gauges and all sorts of nice stuff but what do you call those things bore bore guides you know for your cleaning rods etc etc but my favorite product they make is definitely this they make one for the AI and they now make one for the RP r it goes just behind the butt plate there down you go it's removable as well if you wish you can just take that off put your monopod back on just on doing that one nut anyway there's the tube you put that between the ears and you've got this lovely bag riding at the rear what a difference that makes to your long-range vertical so you know it's all about getting that natural point of aim it's all about straight recoil it's all about accuracy and you know everything adds bulk but getting your bipod in order and getting the rear riding the bag clean and straight through the recored pulse that's where it's at you

Channel: Richard Utting

Views: 68,431

Rating: 4.7931032 out of 5

Keywords: sharpshootinguk, review, accuracy, sniping, marksmanship, long range, rifle ballistics training, bipod review, Atlas bipod, F class bipod, bipod mounting, www.sharpshootinguk.com, Phoenix Tactical, Fortmeier bipod, Atlas 5H, sharpshootinguk facebook group, long range rifle ballistics, firearms training in uk, long range rifle accuracy, Accu-Tac bipods

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Length: 49min 42sec (2982 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 05 2018