Gents,

Newb request for advice....can you school me on loading a bipod? Forward pressure? Backwards pressure? Using the shoulder to push or using the support hand?

Thanks for your time..

If your in soft dirt/ground, dig bipod feet into soil and push rifle forward. Idea is for set up of body to natuarlly apply the forward bipod pressure. Dont use muscle to do so.

Here's Lowlight from snipershide explaining "loading of bipods" on concrete:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjG1JZxiui0

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Andrew

"Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
- John Mason

Harris bipods are generally pretty difficult to load.

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Thanks for all the replies and links, guys....it really helped alot and I think I got it....

I did have another question that I'll ask here rather than opening up another thread:

Those instructional videos that were linked has the rifle and shooter lined up straight to the target, and I can understand the reasoning for that. But since I must have a goofy body type, doing so doesn't equate to an NPA. Which has priority?

Thanks again...

I was really sore after last weeks match. I was shooting Saturday and Sunday...Positioning definately has alot to do with how comfortable your are and if your are not comfortable, you will miss shots...Practice makes perfect...You can be like Randall and set up in your front yard and dry fire....though I cannot imagine in this anti-gun state Randall has never gotten a visit from the PoPo

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I don't do any of those things.

Harris is no harder to load than most bipods. No bipod loads well on cement or when shooting down angle off a roof. One trick for these conditions is to take mat and sew a strap several places across the front of it. That way you can put bipod behind and load it up even on bad ground.

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Draining squares and banging steel

Thanks for the help and info, guys...

I guess I'll have to take up sewing along with my reloading hobby

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God shoots a Remington 700, drives a Chevy Truck and carries a Glock 19.
I don't do any of those things.

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God shoots a Remington 700, drives a Chevy Truck and carries a Glock 19.
I don't do any of those things.

No video.
I was too busy jumping up and down in the trunk (to aid traction) to deal with a camera.

I can still show you some rubber left on my sidewalk from those burnouts.
We must have been doing it for half an hour before the cops showed up.

They just had this awesome grin and told us that the neighbors called due to the noise and that we should shut it down for the day.

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God shoots a Remington 700, drives a Chevy Truck and carries a Glock 19.
I don't do any of those things.