Bi-pods for Tactical & Field use By Richard Utting
Alternative feet are available for the Versa-pods and the Atlas, making them more suitable for various surfaces.
The Harris and Versa-pod come as standard ready to clip on to QD studs. The Harris takes a few seconds to undo and clip on or off. The Versa-pod has an excellent system here, using a spike that the bipod can be slipped on and off instantly. This QD stud to spike adapter comes with the bipod and costs no extra.
The MIL SAK and the Atlas have roughly inch-spaced leg notches that are very easy to clip into without any faffing about with thumbscrews.
There are little grub screws on the MIL SAK that enable you to take out any play in the leg sliders and also the sprung clamp that catches into the leg height notches. This is a very neat touch.
One of my favourite features offered is the Atlas leg extensions: you can make the bipod longer in a few seconds simply by slotting-in leg extensions. They fit in like the height adjuster on NHS crutches – press a little
detente ball in with a bullet tip or pen, and snap in the extensions – genius.
At £40 you are practically saving yourself the need for another longer bipod.
If you buy another adapter (about £26), you can use the same bipod on multiple rifles. Due to the quick-release
nature of this system, removal for storage and use from vehicles etc. are a cinch.
This is a classy feature and a big selling point of the Versa-pods. Obviously, different mounts are available for all the bipods here, Accuracy International, various rail mounts et al.
The Atlas now offers a very similar quick-release system too but it bumps the price up significantly. The Atlas’s default fitment is the Picatinny rail. To use a QD stud, the stud to Picatinny rail adapter must be purchased for £20. (This is being offered for free to UK Varmint forum members by Tac-Fire/rifle-cases.
co.uk, the UK suppliers of Atlas kit and UK Varmint supporters). Again, buy several of these and the bipod ships from rifle to rifle easily.
I’m not entirely blown away by the new quick release clamp on the Atlas. I found it a little fussy to operate quickly and there are a couple of tiny springs in it that I rate to last about three uses before I drop them out - and the thing is hellish expensive. All in all, I was grumpy about
the thing compared to the Versa-pod system. 46
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