1260engineer
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Bipods are really a simple thing you would think . Just a couple of legs and bolts on to your rifle .
they come in all shapes and sizes both pretty and expensive and very simple and cheap .
Now heres where either one can. Either .. Screw up your accuracy or Improve it .
Forget how wide or narrow it is or how much it cost . coz that has F all to do with Accuracy.
WHY ???
Well most folks i know just bolt on a bipod with no thought what so ever (I know ive seen the pictures
)
When fitting a Bipod some thought needs to go into it .
Breathing and Heart beat and trigger operation as we know are very important.
These 3 can be assisted by your bipod believe it or not .
So how can Accuracy be better achieved. Well by looking at lever points .
Take my Rapid Special. look at where the bipod is .
To be honest though the rifle is very very accurate. but I never got round to sorting out the rifles target handling.
The Bipod is to far back on the rifle . this makes the rifle float on the bipod . the rifle becomes neutral instead of being positive and planted .
Now look at this my Titan 1 . By far my most accurate rifle . look at where the bipod is .
Its a long way forward compared to the Rapids .
With the bipod being towards the middle of the rifle on the Rapid everything i do is transmitted basically one to one .
By which i mean . take any of the 3 Breathing/Heart /Trigger.
Any one of the above will move the muzzel of your rifle .
So how can you cut this movement down .
This is where lever points come in .
A easy diagram shows it easily .
on the right .No1. for a say 5mm input at the butt the muzzel moves 6.5mm ish with the bipod just behind the middle line .
Now look at No2 on the left . the same 5mm input . look how far the muzzel moves .
So if you can't quite get your breathing right or even your trigger pull right you can minimize the affects by positioning your bipod to help you .
hence the now much longer rail on my Rapid
just for fun
here are the last 5 red targets as i got use to the weight change.
View attachment 719836
Hope this helps
they come in all shapes and sizes both pretty and expensive and very simple and cheap .
Now heres where either one can. Either .. Screw up your accuracy or Improve it .
Forget how wide or narrow it is or how much it cost . coz that has F all to do with Accuracy.
WHY ???
Well most folks i know just bolt on a bipod with no thought what so ever (I know ive seen the pictures
)When fitting a Bipod some thought needs to go into it .
Breathing and Heart beat and trigger operation as we know are very important.
These 3 can be assisted by your bipod believe it or not .
So how can Accuracy be better achieved. Well by looking at lever points .
Take my Rapid Special. look at where the bipod is .
To be honest though the rifle is very very accurate. but I never got round to sorting out the rifles target handling.
The Bipod is to far back on the rifle . this makes the rifle float on the bipod . the rifle becomes neutral instead of being positive and planted .
Now look at this my Titan 1 . By far my most accurate rifle . look at where the bipod is .
Its a long way forward compared to the Rapids .
With the bipod being towards the middle of the rifle on the Rapid everything i do is transmitted basically one to one .
By which i mean . take any of the 3 Breathing/Heart /Trigger.
Any one of the above will move the muzzel of your rifle .
So how can you cut this movement down .
This is where lever points come in .
A easy diagram shows it easily .
on the right .No1. for a say 5mm input at the butt the muzzel moves 6.5mm ish with the bipod just behind the middle line .
Now look at No2 on the left . the same 5mm input . look how far the muzzel moves .
So if you can't quite get your breathing right or even your trigger pull right you can minimize the affects by positioning your bipod to help you .
hence the now much longer rail on my Rapid
just for fun
here are the last 5 red targets as i got use to the weight change.
View attachment 719836
Hope this helps
. Also when shooting i usually have the bipod as low as possible as well .
