Don't have any solutions for ya but, I agree 100%. I bought one too and the stupid thing bounces all over the place. I took it off and now it just occupies space in my safe. :roll:atr said:
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Aloha ATR:
I think the bounce is caused by the "rubber" feet that Harris uses. To test this, I put a couple of furniture "sliders" under each bipod feet and this allowed the rifle to recoil more normally, front to back. This setup also allowed me to keep on target and faster follow up shots.
I tried to make something more permanent but when disassembling the bipod, I found out that there is a small internal spring in each leg tensioned by the cross roll pin. Just getting it back to original form was a "pain in the butt".
I am sure Versa Pods and others with metal feet or metal sliders will not "bounce" as the Harris will, although I have not found a better bipod than a Harris.
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This is a pic of an alternative bipod that I tried and it does not "bounce" which I attribute to the slider feet on the bipod.
A person who also recognized this occurrance and did something about it and made replacement "metal" feet is Bruce Piatt who markets his bipod feet through Brownells. He calls it the BI-SLIDE BIPOD FEET at http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/st...20864&title=BI-SLIDE+BIPOD+FEET&s=46173#46173 .
I think if you put anything under your bipod that can slide on your supporting surface, you will see that the bounce becomes less evident and should help with getting rid of vertical stringing.
Give it a try, I hope this helps. I tried all day to respond to this thread yesterday, but the weather here certainly affected by Internet connection.
Aloha,
Tom O.,
I think the bounce is caused by the "rubber" feet that Harris uses. To test this, I put a couple of furniture "sliders" under each bipod feet and this allowed the rifle to recoil more normally, front to back. This setup also allowed me to keep on target and faster follow up shots.
I tried to make something more permanent but when disassembling the bipod, I found out that there is a small internal spring in each leg tensioned by the cross roll pin. Just getting it back to original form was a "pain in the butt".
I am sure Versa Pods and others with metal feet or metal sliders will not "bounce" as the Harris will, although I have not found a better bipod than a Harris.
This is a pic of an alternative bipod that I tried and it does not "bounce" which I attribute to the slider feet on the bipod.
A person who also recognized this occurrance and did something about it and made replacement "metal" feet is Bruce Piatt who markets his bipod feet through Brownells. He calls it the BI-SLIDE BIPOD FEET at http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/st...20864&title=BI-SLIDE+BIPOD+FEET&s=46173#46173 .
I think if you put anything under your bipod that can slide on your supporting surface, you will see that the bounce becomes less evident and should help with getting rid of vertical stringing.
Give it a try, I hope this helps. I tried all day to respond to this thread yesterday, but the weather here certainly affected by Internet connection.
Aloha,
Tom O.,
Aloha Tom
Never heard of that or saw it before but i copied the pic and will take a bipod into one of the machinists at work . He loves working on anything related to guns so i try to keep him happy .
atr
Never heard of that or saw it before but i copied the pic and will take a bipod into one of the machinists at work . He loves working on anything related to guns so i try to keep him happy .
atr
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