Thread: How to zero a rifle for dummies*

Originally Posted by Jhon

A few moons ago I went down the bipod rabbit hole. No expert but learned a few things about what worked for me.

1. A bipod sucks in the bush. Catches everything
2. A bipod sucks in tall grass, weeds or rushes. Have to take a scythe to clear a view path
3. A bipod sucks on a synthetic stock with a free floated barrel and a flexible fore-end, if the fore-end touches the barrel under the pressure of your hold bearing down on a bipod mount your shot is buggered.
4. A bipod sucks if you need to snap a shot, just cant deploy it so it's a useless encumbrance underneath the front of the rifle.
5. cheap bipods, ex GC, really suck. Bits break and fall off.
6. Bipods that rattle as you move or zing when bumped really suck
7. A bipod is good when you want to put your gun down but keep the metal off the ground, like when you want a midday snooze and yer pack is yer pillow.
8..bipods make you look seriously cool, or something...

PS, bipods add weight....

PPS if you only have a short window to take the shot, but more than a snap shot, setting up on a bipod is still too slow. Best offhand, off a tree trunk or quicker prone resting on dropped pack.

Pretty much my thoughts also.

I did buy one a while back and tried it at the range. Take it on trips sometimes but yet to use it on game.

DIY folding shooting stixs made out of carbon arrows. Light as a feather. Use them heaps. Never leave home without them.