Bipods are great, they can be a bit heavy walking around for long periods of time, but that’s not what they are designed for. They are for holing up someone and taking long range pot shots a quarry that has no idea you’re there, as a steady platform for pellet placement, taking the wobbly forearm out of the equation, or for posey gun photo’s  

Here we are going to fit a Harris Bipod to my Daystate X2. The rifle is going to be used for HFT and you’re not allowed to compete with a bipod on, it’s cheating and that’s how good they are at steadying the gun.  So it’s only going on there for a short while as I want to use it to zero my rifle (another great reason to have one) and as soon as it’s done.  It will be coming off again.

So as is the case with quite a few bipods, first thing is make sure you have a front swivel. This is how they attach to the gun. Some out there will wrap themselves around barrels stocks or just be a u shaped in order to rest on. However with the Harris we have to connect to a swivel.

If you don’t have any front swivels they are simple enough to fit and usually just a case of self tapping as you screw them into a stock.

First off let’s work our way around the bipod. It consists of two legs that are mounted to springs and a plate which goes against the stock. The legs fold up and down to the plate as you will see over the course of the pictures. With this one as well the legs are extendable. But I won’t go into that right now. (There’s a serious risk that it could all go a bit Carry on here)  Sticking out the plate at the top are two flanges with nipples on them. (ok fnarr fnarr snicker snicker, well I don’t know how else to describe it)

Anyway underneath the plate is a screw (ok ok calm down) now unscrewing that give the flanges more space and UNDERNEATH THE PLATE you can pinch them together to open them up Now you can put them onto the swivel and those nipples will fit in the eye of the swivel. Screw the retaining bolt back in to tighten up the flanges so they bite harder on the swivel and make it a solid platform. Once it’s all tightened up your all ready to go.

I prefer to have it so that the legs fold up forward, but I don’t think it matters which way round you have them. And that’s it you should now have got a bipod installed, And are ready to zero in your gun, take steady shots for precise pellet placement. OR take posey pictures. . .