The Best Bipod For Hw100 Suggestions Please

[woodcote1 88]

Mine cost nothing, weighs nothing, doesn't affect the balance of the rifle and is silent to deploy.

[PaulEamonn 37]

Just undo a zip and get little Woody out, do you?

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

lol good one ! :laugh:

[scissorman 13]

Cant advise on best bipod but I just bought a pre owned HW100. First thing I did was remove the stock to give everything a good clean. I was shocked to see the bipod stud was straight through the stock. I quick search on e**y and I found a stud that replaces the front stock fixing stud and does the job of both and should be better for the integrity of the stock. Hope this is use-full?

[PaulEamonn 37]

Scissorman - yeah, I use that sort of stud to attach my bipod. The only thing that concerns me is that, when I first started using it, I had to really tighten it up to get the stud properly aligned so as the bipod fitted correctly. Now, after a bit of use, I don't have to tighten it up so much as the barrel band has made an indentation into the inside of the stock.

 

I'm now wondering how long it will be before the stud/barrel band/bipod will all be loose because I can't tighten the stud up sufficiently to hold it all together.

[splitcane 5]

Not a question of "money or sense" but of on what one wants from a bipod. For more decades than I care to mention, I have had a list. For a start, it had to be able to detach from, and reattach to, a gun instantly, unobtrusively, and absolutely reliably, without tools or fuss, so that I could go from hedgerow stalking without having to carry a pound odd of unnecessary steel under the muzzle to long range staking of (some bloody shy, very gun-educated) warrens without a pause. Secondly, all the adaptations/variations/modifications for all the terrains, uses and circumstances I'm likely to find, certainly during any single outing in any given permission, but preferably all of them from fen meadow to half way up some pretty respectable hills, had to fit into a pocket and weigh ounces not pounds. Those two requirements in themselves instantly ruled out the Harris.

 

In addition, it also had to capable of canting and panning when aiming but be rock steady in the panned/canted position when firing, without further adjustment or fiddling between the two. Given the purposes and places for which I wanted it, it had to be instantly adjustable for any angle or direction of slope and for any variation of terrain, including height, surface, angle or slope, both legs together or between right and left leg independently. It had to be unfailingly and predictably silent in all operations. It had to be unobtrusive, reasonably elegant well enough engineered not to disgrace the gun on which it was being used.

 

If I were going to have a bipod at all, it had to tick all the boxes on that list. If it didn't, then I'd do without a bipod because there were other solutions that worked better for me. The Harris ticked, from memory, two of the list, including the "it's a bipod" box. I'd have ended up hating it within days, which does not strike me as a "sensible" use of £90.

 

So "without a bipod" is what I did for more decades than I care to mention, until the Atlas popped up during an idle web search last year or the year before. It ticked every box I had on my list, and a few others. Like my rifle, for which I also waited and made do for decades, it does all I could want of it, under any circumstances, and - again like the gun - adds superb engineering, tolerances, materials and finish with it. It's a joy to use and I'll still be using it, and loving it, in 20 years (if I last that long), when I'll long since have forgotten how much it cost (or inflation will make it look like peanuts anyway) and when anything else I've seen will have rusted, perished, twisted and twanged their merry ways to the scrap heap. That's what I mean by "best." And that's why I'm very happy that I waited, and saved my pennies, until the Atlas came along, merrily ticking boxes in its wake.

 

Buy the Harris, and you'll know exactly what you'll get, and get exactly what you paid for. In buying the Atlas, I've done exactly they same, and what I've got, I'm glad to say, is absolutely not second best.