Bipod choice

[PeterN]

I have decided to get a bipod for my Parker Hale 1200TX and M82 lookalike rifles. I would only get one bipod and swap them between the two rifles. However, I know very little about bipods. I see they vary in price from £20 odd to hundreds. I have looked at the Parker Hale ones at £200 ish, that is more than I paid for the rifle. I have looked at the Versa pod that seem to be Parker Hale copies. I will only be using them for informal range target shooting. I have a bipod on my Remington 700. I am not sure what make it is but says Made in China on it. Has anyone any advise as to what would be suitable?
Regards
Peter.

[Pippin89]

Cheap ones are never worth it in my opinion. But there is also a law of diminishing returns so I wouldn't go spending loads unless you're in very high level competition. You can get a Harris bipod for sub £100 which is very good value and probably the sweet spot for that style of bipod.

[redcat]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125793786761

Redcat

[MrD]

I echo the other replies, a Harris or good clone. As Pippin said, avoid the cheap ones. I bought cheap one off Fleabay to save fitting my FTR one for cleaning. It flops around like a boned fish and would be no use to shoot off.

Donald

[spikedueller]

I use a Harris on my Blaser and it's ideal for informal club shooting. I did buy a "wholly expensive batman" Atlas and the piticanny rail for a CZ LRP .22" for target shooting, it's a great piece of kit but after use I wouldn't say it's cost / value in comparison to the Harris would make me rush out and buy another one but putting a cheap bipod on an expensive precision setup would rather defeat the object but I suspect I'd be hard pushed to see if it shoots any better than if I used a Harris.

[Pete]

If you want a "tacticool" type bipod, then before you part with a shedload of money, have a look at the Atlas clones advertised on ebay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266407647981 ... R5q1hvLwZA

I used one of these on a Blaser LRS 308 a few years ago, and it was fine. They were allegedly made under licence from Atlas, and intended for the paintball cult.....

Pete

[PeterN]

Thanks for the replies. I think I will give Norman Clark a call and see what they suggest as they are Parker Hale experts.
Regards
Peter.