Thread: Ultralight bipod

Originally Posted by R93

He will be in bed I'd say.
We will hopefully get more info off him tonight.
He could also be out instructing at the driving range

Shouldn't that be getting instructed at the driving range

Originally Posted by R93

FFS! Thomas you missed your calling mate.
I pissed myself at the durability testing

I strongly suspect golf is not one of my hidden skills. You might want to see a doctor about that other thing...

Originally Posted by Toby

Is there a way to attach it or does it just slip on/off?

It clips on and off. You have to press the lever to get it off.

Originally Posted by ebf

yeah Thomas, don't give up your day job for that cricket career mate

Cricket? That is the evildoers that slaughtered all those people in Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

Originally Posted by gimp

Looks good to me. I'm a big fan of the versapod/parker hale/bren gun style bipods.

It handles just like my Versapod. Without the weight and less friction in the material, so the response is a lot quicker.

Originally Posted by Dreamer

Shouldn't that be getting instructed at the driving range

I'll entirely stay away from golf methinks...

Multi-quote was fun!

I don't have that much info guys.
My contact is with the manufacturer, and with the money poured into their development I think it is reasonable to assume it will be sold "everywhere".
I also assume they let me publish my testing as I think it is both well protected with the patents and outside the technical capacity of most companies - the material really is high tech. I have been told the bipod would be available before Christmas. Price? I have no idea, I have nothing to do with the money side of that company.

My only gripe so far is that it doesn't attach to a standard Versapod pin. Their bipod pin works fine, it will come in a zillion variations, but I can't use my present pin which annoys me. Considering how solidly embedded the bipod pin is on my Blaser, it will have to prove itself on the CZ before I can be bothered to install/ integrate this adapter on the Blaser. Mind you, even my S&B PMII MTC/LT 3-20x50 spent a year in transition from range rifles before it ended up on a hunting barrel. My hunting is so valuable to me, it is just no way I'm losing hunting days to equipment failure - a lesson I have learned the hard way.

Hence the bat. The bipod looks flimsy, I was expecting the bipod to break when I loaded it. It didn't and the engineers says it's not weak. I don't trust engineers and their theory, I don't have all that much time available and had to speed testing up a little with a good whack. The owner spends a lot of money on this and don't entirely trust engineers either, so I was encouraged to find flaws and wear it down. I really like the bipod, it handles as a good bipod should but there is still some time before I fully trust it.

Good skill with the multiple reply Norway. @R93 would never go to a doctor just because he pissed himself. There are two occasions when good kiwi blokes can do that and not worry. The first is when we are having a good laugh as in this instance at your golf swing with a fencing baton and the second is when we get so mulleted (drunk) at our 21st birthday that we just don't care. Ha ha ha ha

The attachment system looks far superior to the traditional sling-stud clusterfuck.

Originally Posted by Norway

My only gripe so far is that it doesn't attach to a standard Versapod pin.

That's dumb.

Originally Posted by chalkeye

The attachment system looks far superior to the traditional sling-stud clusterfuck.

Better than the standard Versapod gigantic lump that takes 20 minutes to remove and weighs a pound, too.

Originally Posted by chalkeye

The attachment system looks far superior to the traditional sling-stud clusterfuck.

It is actually quite smart. A small threaded case is put over your ordinary sling stud. A steel bolt goes through the case and the eye of your sling stud. The adapter is put over both. Basically the construction makes it impossible for stuff to fall off, you need material breakage. It comes with a small tool, making it easy to tighten/ compress the rubber shim protecting the stock and thus stopping sideways movement as well.

I lile the embedded pins best, but this was a smart solution to using the sling studs.

Hi Norway, Ive found a tripod called a Neopod on google. Do you think it is the same as your one.

Originally Posted by Titanium

Hi Norway, Ive found a tripod called a Neopod on google. Do you think it is the same as your one.

There's a few companies doing carbon bipods mate just be prepared over $500 Nz for them

Originally Posted by BRADS

There's a few companies doing carbon bipods mate just be prepared over $500 Nz for them

That's pretty steep. But if they are as robust as they look might be worth it in the long run. I can easily and have spent 500 hundy, on more useless shit. Diesel kms for example

Originally Posted by R93

That's pretty steep. But if they are as robust as they look might be worth it in the long run. I can easily and have spent 500 hundy on more useless shit. Diesel kms for example

500 hundys, shit that's a lot of diesel kms...

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Originally Posted by The Claw

500 hundys, shit that's a lot of diesel kms...

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Only 7000ish now Sam!!!! Its truly f@#ked

Originally Posted by R93

Only 7000ish now Sam!!!! Its truly f@#ked

Na mate, read it again... 500 x hundy = 50,000

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But yeah, I make sure I have my track pants on with elasticised waist when I get km's for the truck. That way its easy for me to pull my pants down when its time to pay for 10,000km...

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Originally Posted by The Claw

But yeah, I make sure I have my track pants on with elasticised waist when I get km's for the truck. That way its easy for me to pull my pants down when its time to pay for 10,000km...

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Bwaaahaaahaa!!!

Yeah I just seen what I done. Ha Ha im not that sharp lately. Yup a lot of kms there.