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atlas bipod...which one?
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<blockquote data-quote="rooster721" data-source="post: 1090143" data-attributes="member: 40654"><p>I've run into it in the moutains in-particular.. one specific instance was on an elk hunt where I was offered a shot on a bull up on a bench above me, angle was a hard-uphill angle and to line up the rifle (with the 3" extensions on) I had to fully extend the legs AND have them up in a rock-outcrop so I could rest the back-end on a portion of my pack for a proper rest... shot was 700 yards. If I didn't have extensions, I'da been pulling jackets or other stuff outta the pack to try prop up the rifle to make things line up. So that was one-scenario.</p><p></p><p>In another, the place I set up on our pasture for targets in the winter-time requires an inch & a half or so more height than my short V-8 allows (fully extended) because of the shooting-spot. I shoot across an old lake-bed over a wide valley there, and the place we shoot from is on the fall-away side of a hill top... the bipods (there) end up slightly downhill from where (the shooter) lays behind the rifle-- extensions or taller legs are a must there as well. We'd otherwise be shimming up the shorter ones with blocks or gloves or something-else that would allow more elevation off the ground to line up to many of the targets across that valley. </p><p></p><p>On flat-ground or off benches and such, hell-- even at times in hilly/mountainous terrain the extra length isn't necessary, but sometimes it is. Better to have the ability to extend them if you have-to than try get by on a shaky platform and make a poor shot. Like we all know, set-up is everything on those long shots.. to me, the taller version helps address more of what the terrain can throw at a guy than any other bipod does. That's why I set mine up as mentioned in my earlier post* Allows for greatest flexibility & eliminates variables in doing so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rooster721, post: 1090143, member: 40654"] I've run into it in the moutains in-particular.. one specific instance was on an elk hunt where I was offered a shot on a bull up on a bench above me, angle was a hard-uphill angle and to line up the rifle (with the 3" extensions on) I had to fully extend the legs AND have them up in a rock-outcrop so I could rest the back-end on a portion of my pack for a proper rest... shot was 700 yards. If I didn't have extensions, I'da been pulling jackets or other stuff outta the pack to try prop up the rifle to make things line up. So that was one-scenario. In another, the place I set up on our pasture for targets in the winter-time requires an inch & a half or so more height than my short V-8 allows (fully extended) because of the shooting-spot. I shoot across an old lake-bed over a wide valley there, and the place we shoot from is on the fall-away side of a hill top... the bipods (there) end up slightly downhill from where (the shooter) lays behind the rifle-- extensions or taller legs are a must there as well. We'd otherwise be shimming up the shorter ones with blocks or gloves or something-else that would allow more elevation off the ground to line up to many of the targets across that valley. On flat-ground or off benches and such, hell-- even at times in hilly/mountainous terrain the extra length isn't necessary, but sometimes it is. Better to have the ability to extend them if you have-to than try get by on a shaky platform and make a poor shot. Like we all know, set-up is everything on those long shots.. to me, the taller version helps address more of what the terrain can throw at a guy than any other bipod does. That's why I set mine up as mentioned in my earlier post* Allows for greatest flexibility & eliminates variables in doing so. [/QUOTE]
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