jordan1948
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I've always wondered about this. If you have a bipod on you rifle do you use it or use a rest/sandbag when you go to the range? And why or why not?
I've come across a couple of tidbits of info that helped me out and tightened by groups from a bipod considerably. First, you want your bipod mounted with the legs pointing toward the muzzle when folded. I'm just mentioning it because I've seen lots of guys with their bipods on backwards and cursing the rifle and ammo because they can't shoot a decent group. When using a bipod, you want to load it up. What I mean by this is that you want to be putting a tad bit of forward pressure on the bipod when you shoot. When I first started using a bipod, I was having a heck of a time and it turned out that while shooting a group, I had a tendency to pull the rifle in to me (releasing tension on the legs) rather than pusing myself into the rifle (keeping the bipod loaded up). I'm just talking about a little bit. Not much pushing is needed, but the difference between pushing and pulling made a lot of difference in the groups that I was getting.