How to shoot a rifle with bi pod?

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bigbore1

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I recently bought a Remington 700, and threw a harris bi pod on it. I'm very used to shooting hi power rifles, but with a 1907 sling wrapped around my left arm.
What do I do with my left arm while using the bi pod? Any suggestions or links to other sites will be much appreciated.
 
Tuck your left hand under the butt stock right at the buttplate, stuffed into your right armpit with the butt. It serves the same purpose as the rear sandbag does for a benchrest shooter.

Grab the sling or carry strap in your left hand and pull a little before you tuck yout left hand in. This will steady the rifle, too, like sling pressure does when shooting prone without the bipod.

One can get incredibly steady with a Harris bipod.
 
Fully agree with first responent.

However, read ( or reread ) any books such as Boddingtons 'Shots at Big Game' or even Ultimate Sniper. If you have acquired/ mastered skill with a sling - don't lose it!

Not sure if you are going to target shoot or hunt ( both? ). The Harris will not 'fit' every occasion. It is very useful to maintain skill with various positions - look on a bipod as icing on the cake.

I have Harris bipods available on all stalking rifles - dependant upon terrain, perhaps use them for 60% of shots in the field. In the UK, after the telescopic sight, they are probably the single most important piece of hardware in terms of improving humane kills in the field.

Once sighted-in, I rarely use them on the range - because they are largely a known or given quantity. It's my flabby, wobbly body that needs practise as a gun mount!
 
Bipod sorta gives rifleman a fifth position. Sitting, kneeling, prone, offhand and bipod. Practice with all and serve yourself well when needed. Bench for testing. Position shooting for real.

Unless, of course, you are into bench rest competition.

Sam
 
thanks. I don't intend to compete or hunt with this rifle, just plink.
I never owned a scoped rifle before and this was a deal I couldn't pass on. I'm used to shooting my M1A in the local hi power league, but I have no idea how to shoot this scoped/bipod rifle. I guess it's just what you get used to. At 200 yds, I am much better off with my M1A; I guess I'll just have to practice:-)
 
How about a Monopod?

A lot of the country I snipe varments in has grass and weeds too high for prone or even sitting shots, so a bipod is not an option, kinda awkward on the rifle when packing it any distance too.

I have had more luck with a monopod that I utilize as a walking staff til I'm redy to shoot, then it serves as a rifle rest, not as steady as a bipod, but a lot more stable than having to shoot offhand without any support at all. Using one of these is about the only time I've attempted shooting from kneeling position... helps, and keeps me above the weeds and low brush.

I've also heard of shooting with crosssticks like the buckskinners
reenacting the old buffalo hunters, but haven't tried them myself.

Steadier is better.;)
 
Bipods are a wonderful accessory, but I cussed mine for a couple of months when I first added it to a previously sub MOA hunting rilfe and suddenly could get only three inch groups! Once I undrstood the problem, the rifle went back to shooting normally for me.

The problem was that I was resing across sandbags on a bench at the range. I folded up the bipod to use the more solid bags and shot. The problem was my resting across the bipod while in the folded position. If you rest atop a bipod out on legs a bit, it can put enough preasue on your stock to contact a freefloating barrel to the bedding if there isn't much free space. This can mess up accuracy as the "usual" vibrations are distorted.

Solution - either use the bipod when resting or don't use it at all - go freehand and avoid accidentally contacting the folded bipos on something that might casue it to bind up the stock/barrel relationship. (I don't think this would be a problem with most guns, just ones with a stock that can move fractionally and a freefloated barrel that has little free space like my custom rirle does!)
 
bigbore1,

I use a sandsock under the heel of the stock to give me a solid three-point rest (rather than sand in the sock, get some polymer beads from Wal-Mart; they are lighter and don't absorb moisture). Then put your left hand under the stock and grip the sand sock. By squeezing or releasing the sock you can fine tune your elevation. If you do it right, you'll be so steady that you can get on target, move your head away from the scope for a few seconds, come back on the scope and find that you are still dead on target.
 
the pod is good.. but remember a bipod is considered a hard contact point.. so if you are planning on resting it on hard ground be sure to put something soft in there. like a jacket or towel or something... that will allow for a good recoil pattern instead of unpredictable jumping that hard to hard contact will cause.
 
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