oh hey I want to take just a couple minutes and talk about the evolution of
the bipod on sniper rifles in particularly I want to talk about the
line of bipods from B&T industry all right so we all started off with the
basic old Harris ultralight bipod they still come on a lot of modern guns I'm
not bashing the Harris bipods at all not at all but when we would have them on
our guns right we would always have to they'd have to be mounted facing in that
direction and you'd have to fold the legs forward which then stuck out you
know along the sides of your barrel so if you were going through the woods that
was going to get hung up on something if you were parachuting with it again it's
something sticking forward of the stock you really want that thing tight up
against the stock so we would want the legs of fullback you know like our
machine gun ones do however if you folded if you mounted the the Harris
backwards okay so it was like that what ended up happening when you leaned into
that the back of that stock when you went to go load that rifle what happened
is that that stock would fold on you and your barrel would drop in the ground you
get dirt in the end of your muzzle and you lose all your cool points so it
can only be mounted in one direction fast forward a little bit and it's got
name Casey belts can't saw that there were it's a good bipod but he saw that
there were things that could be improved on it so what he what he built was this
this is one of the original versions of the Atlas bipod the legs would be pulled
and they come down to the side alright so his bipod still had tilt just like
the newer versions of the Harrises had but one feature that Casey added was a
pan his bipod you could actually pan the gun left and right which for me when I'm
trying to track moving targets that alone made this
thing a winner for me so one other feature his has is remember I just
mentioned my problem with the Harris was the legs could only be forward if you
mounted them backwards the gun would fall down his could fold in either
direction it didn't matter it slots cut so you could fold it back like a like
the bipod on a saw or a 240 and it wouldn't waste any extra space wouldn't
get hung up on brush well Casey took it a step farther now instead of having
different height bipods the short Harris is the medium Harris the tall Harris
he decided well if I need if this one was too tall if I put it out of 45 right
there if I had it out of 45 now it's lower than it would have been
these legs are a little bit lower now if you needed it longer you could pull down
on this collar and you could micro adjust the ends of these legs the same
thing if it was lower down this this bipod gets quite tall a solid built if
the pan and tilt was too loose for you had a knob on the bottom so you could
tighten it up versions would throw levers versions without throw levers
depending on what you the user needed so that's the first generation now he added
several newer ones this particular one you notice he got away from pulling the
legs down to extend them like he did on that version and he went to a push
button now it still has you can lock it at the 45 all right but you have to push
the button collars a little easier to grab still works the same way micro
adjustable now you notice these have got points on them instead of the rubber
shoes now it still takes the rubber shoes okay but he's got if you look
right here see the little hole all you do is take the tip of a bullet stick it
in that hole and these feet pull right off so you can remove that rubber shoe
and you can put on either the point or he's got these flats sand shoes also then
they've got teeth still digging a like a wood tabletop
they're good in the snow gives you a little wider footprint for your rifle
nice improvement I can't available in different colors depending on what the contract
was and again it still had pan and tilt both a big step up
now you notice these legs do rope rotate now there were users that were
complaining about that now Casey doesn't take these things as complaints he takes
them as constructive criticism the shooters were saying they didn't want
them to rotate because with the feet the the bipod was actually walking forward
on the ground when people were loading hard against it so what he did was he
started making a version that does not rotate the legs do not rotate left and
right so everything else works exactly the same still push but and you can
still drop it to the 45 available in different heights pan and tilt
great-great bipod all the parts are interchangeable everything now
again more not so much constructive criticism but people reaching out saying
Casey that's awesome can you make it a little bit bigger so I can put it on our
50 Cal sniper rifles on our 338 Lapua things like that so he started with just
a larger heavier version but what he found was it raised the gun too high
that you're the lower the center of gravity is on the weapon system the
better you're going to be for recoil management in the quicker you're going
to be able to get that next shot off so what he came up with is the 5H now
you'll notice this is a different completely different design rather than
if you look where the apex would have been rather than that barrel and being
way up here by him cutting a loop down bottom now he's lowered the gun closer
to the ground but look how much wider that footprint in this is much heavier
you can still do 45 degrees in every direction you can still do 90 degrees in
every direction and this this thing really does extend to a very very
wide footprint for those 50 Cal rifles you could use this on a saw now it still
has pan and tilt pan tilt this way now if you wanted to shorten it down a
little bit all you'd have to do is tighten this knob
it actually has clicks in it go left to right three clicks one way three clicks
the other way and then take this throw lever throw it back and you can adjust
how much friction you have in there now there were some people that were saying
Casey can you make us a version that does not have any pan or does not have
any tilt what he did it every one of these 5Hs comes with this tool you
screw it in the front and you tighten it down and it completely takes out the
tilt capability tighten it down a little bit more and it takes the pan out so
great great feature I can't say enough about this product it's what I'm running
on my personal 338 now great-great bipod system from initial idea all the way up
through the latest generation alright if you have any questions or comments about
any of the generations of the Atlas bipod all the way up to the 5H just let
me know put your questions and comments below