Thought I'd share:
I made this bipod (photo attached) when I was about 16 years old, when some of us were woodchuck hunting with our deer rifles in Central Maine.
My dad was a plumber and showed me how to anneal copper tubing and to use various tools, including an acetylene torch to sweat pipes. The resulting bipod is about 8 1/2" high and can be carried in a rear pocket, jammed into the ground and serves as a stable platform for prone shooting. The top has felt, wrapped with electrician's tape. It proved to be about indestructible.
Back then, I was shooting a Savage 110, 30-06, with a free-floated, epoxy bedded Bishop stock blank that I finished to look and feel like a Weatherby MK5. Shot under 3/4 MOA with 125 gr. Sierra handloads, using a Weaver 2.5X fixed-power scope. The year I kept records, I averaged 230 yard kills with the rifle.
John
I made this bipod (photo attached) when I was about 16 years old, when some of us were woodchuck hunting with our deer rifles in Central Maine.
My dad was a plumber and showed me how to anneal copper tubing and to use various tools, including an acetylene torch to sweat pipes. The resulting bipod is about 8 1/2" high and can be carried in a rear pocket, jammed into the ground and serves as a stable platform for prone shooting. The top has felt, wrapped with electrician's tape. It proved to be about indestructible.
Back then, I was shooting a Savage 110, 30-06, with a free-floated, epoxy bedded Bishop stock blank that I finished to look and feel like a Weatherby MK5. Shot under 3/4 MOA with 125 gr. Sierra handloads, using a Weaver 2.5X fixed-power scope. The year I kept records, I averaged 230 yard kills with the rifle.
John