PSA: Replica Atlas Bipods are garbage.

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I doubt this even needs to be said... but here goes.

Roughly 3-4 months ago I decided I'd give one of those 100$ replica Atlas bipods from a well known vendor a try. I knew it wasn't going to be a perfect replica, but the engineer in me figured I'd fix whatever was wrong with it. I love tinkering...

When I first received it, I hadn't even installed it yet and one of the feet fell off. It was off to a rough start... Fast forward to today, no amount of work I did ever fully resolved anything. The legs were loose as a goose, the QD mount would unlock constantly and fall off the rifle, literally every screw on the damn thing no matter how much Loctite I would put; would loosen, the half ball mount is pure garbage, the "washer trick" was useless. Literally nothing on the damn thing worked as it should.

Only reason I'm posting this is to remind people not to waist their time and money... In the end this heap of garbage wasn't worth 20$. It's next and last adventure out will be as target practice. First and last time I purchase ching chong meow replica garbage, and will be going back to my trusted Harris for the time being. Lessons learnt.
 
I have one that I sometime use on my SR-22 and Savage Rascal for my kid. Also I did use them on my AR's .... They are so-so or OK to use on low calibre rifles but that's about it.

And they cost around $30 - $40 on those Chinese on-line shopping sites.

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Aprilia Man said:
I have one that I sometime use on my SR-22 and Savage Rascal for my kid. Also I did use them on my AR's .... They are so-so or OK to use on low calibre rifles but that's about it.

And they cost around $30 - $40 on those Chinese on-line shopping sites.

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Yea I can see these things working alright on smaller calibers. My 195gr 308 was giving it hell. I had noticed the much cheaper priced ones after I purchased it.... only adds insult to injury lol.
 
You paid 100 smackeroos for a China copy? My condolences! Anyway they are great for my 10/22 and mkii stuff. Their more expensive Chinese models also work ok if you get lucky.
 
TNA has cut their teeth on selling complete airsoft made junk from China to us, as "unlabelled". A lot of people don't question what they're getting, but it's just crap hocked on aliexpress or dhgate, with an insane markup because "TNA are the little guys".

These guys are a complete racket. They have a "TNA Difference" page on their website, what a complete frigging joke. I spent $30 the only time I bought from them, and got a brass catcher and a couple of stickers, which later I could buy on Amazon from hongkong for like $8.

They can get bent for all I care and I will never, EVER, spend a dime with these guys again. They make us feel bad for not buying from them, even though their main business was selling us JUNK to people that didn't know better.
 
Mine is holding up fine so far. Only used it on ARs and also diy the known fixes. Solid for range use. I'll post again when it falls apart lol so if you don't see another post after this, it's still working fine.
 
Conscript said:
TNA has cut their teeth on selling complete airsoft made junk from China to us, as "unlabelled". A lot of people don't question what they're getting, but it's just crap hocked on aliexpress or dhgate, with an insane markup because "TNA are the little guys".

These guys are a complete racket. They have a "TNA Difference" page on their website, what a complete frigging joke. I spent $30 the only time I bought from them, and got a brass catcher and a couple of stickers, which later I could buy on Amazon from hongkong for like $8.

They can get bent for all I care and I will never, EVER, spend a dime with these guys again. They make us feel bad for not buying from them, even though their main business was selling us JUNK to people that didn't know better.
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Careful, I know a few guys who've been pinked for disclosing that sort of info.

If I recall, one of the vendor's staff was even caught shilling for them. TNA got a one month ban and then they were back.

I think even Casey from B&T Industries (Atlas) came on here to complain about the knock offs, but he was basically told to piss off because he wasn't a sponsoring vendor.
 
Yup thread will get locked, people get the ban deja vu, some places I’ll never buy from.

A certain vendor item even had all the Atlas stamping at one time and when questioned just replied too bad that B&T didn’t hold any Canadian patents on the bipod only a American so all was good, no moral compass at all.
 
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I bought one of the cheap Chinese ones off ebay and its been fine for me. Sure it could be better but it gets by just fine on my RPR.

The only problem I had was the little plunger nut to angle the legs came unthreaded, so I added some blue Loctite. After that it has given me no grief.

I think I paid about $30 for it, but that's a whole ton cheaper than the real altlas which is quite frankly offensively priced.
 
QD mount on mine was garbage. It would also not lock tilt/cant correctly.

I also share the same sentiment on TNA. It's completely dishonest to mark their chinese crap as "TNA Branded".

Some of their chinese stuff they actually sell at a discount from aliexpress, dhgate, etc. They buy it in bulk and get a good price, and when you buy it from them you get it in a couple of days rather than 2 weeks+. So i'll give them that.

but yeah, so many people fooled by the "TNA gas blocks" or "TNA charging handles" or "TNA handguards" when they're just chinese crap.
 
Daughter has had nothing but grief with hers on a .308. Every PR practice/match we have been to the mount loosens from the forearm of the rifle. Not good during a match. We had to quick use multitool pliers to tighten it this weekend when it came loose. My old school Harris bipod has no issues on my rifle.
 
theDuck said:
Daughter has had nothing but grief with hers on a .308. Every PR practice/match we have been to the mount loosens from the forearm of the rifle. Not good during a match. We had to quick use multitool pliers to tighten it this weekend when it came loose. My old school Harris bipod has no issues on my rifle.
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That's exactly why I got rid of it... if you're sitting on a bench meh fine you can possible live with it (I couldn't anymore). At matches, you have enough stress... having your bipod fall off, or get loose and the rifles starts swinging from one side to another doesn't help lol.
 
Just like anything else, you get what you pay for. I love how people will spend hundreds to thousands on a rifle and optic, but will cheap out on the very piece that makes up the literal foundation of the rifle. A precision rifle with a junky as$ bipod, how priceless.

I'm disappointed, and sadly not surprised, in the amount of people here that advocate knock-offs. Rather than support the people that support our sport and continue to provide us with innovative products, we would rather be cheap pricks and buy junk that doesn't even half-as$ work. What a joke the shooting community is in Canada.

I'm also disappointed and not surprised in CGN and it's leadership. Time and time again, CGN let's some of their sponsors run all over the general members. I guess why let ethics and morals get in the way of making $$$?
 
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TurboTapin said:
That's exactly why I got rid of it... if you're sitting on a bench meh fine you can possible live with it (I couldn't anymore). At matches, you have enough stress... having your bipod fall off, or get loose and the rifles starts swinging from one side to another doesn't help lol.
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Yeah, it's hard enough when your equipment functions properly... Damn near impossible when equipment malfs.
 
Garbage chicom stuff is exactly that, garbage. The least expensive bipod for a precision rifle is a Harris. Granted once you've put a pod-loc, spikes and a pic/arca adapter on it, it's not that inexpensive anymore, haha.
 
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