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So I have been practicing some dry fire drills on my new 308 RPR in my basement. When shooting prone I find that I really can't get much of a load into my bipod due to it sliding on the carpet. The rubber feet do not provide good friction on any surface I've tried. Is this normal? I've noticed some people use spiked feet on their bipod to really dig in. According to some people, the amount of bipod loading needed is roughly equal to the weight of the gun. So for my 10 pound gun, I should apply about 10 pounds of forward pressure. I don't think I'm able to achieve that with my bipod.

The bipod I'm using is this one from CanadaAmmo.com:

https://www.canadaammo.com/product/detail/tip-top-series-9-tactical-ez-level-pan-rifle-bipod-with-quicklock-system/

Before you tell me it's a junky no name brand - it is actually quite solid. Reviews on Amazon.com indicate very high rating and some say it is better than Harris. Anyway, I'm no sniper, and funds were drying up for this thing after buying the gun, optic, ammo, and accessories. I'll have to make it work for the foreseeable future.

What can be done? I was thinking of modifying the rubber feet somehow.
 
To solve your issue, you can buy the slip over chair leg rubber nubs, some should be small enough for the bipod feet and will give you some more surface area to grab with, you could try roughing up your surface as well, may help and in dirt/grass it is going to be very different.

On another note, I don't really believe in preloading the bipod very much.... I think the key to consistency is letting the weight of the rifle do the work with good body alignment. I see the idea behind preloading and used to do it myself, but I put very slight forward pressure on now, if any because it is difficult to have consistent pressure on the rifle shot to shot, while its own weight and your body positioning I correct will in itself mitigate a consistent recoil.. others will disagree, but muscling a rifle to do what you want will not produce accurate results on paper.
 
If the feet are sliding on carpet that's a clear sign that you're overdoing it. I'm horrible at explaining this stuff but the idea of loading a bipod was never to actually push forward when shooting. The idea is to take up any slack in the system as you sink down into your shooting position. If you do some research you'll find much better explanations than the one I just gave.
 
Shabazz said:
If the feet are sliding on carpet that's a clear sign that you're overdoing it. I'm horrible at explaining this stuff but the idea of loading a bipod was never to actually push forward when shooting. The idea is to take up any slack in the system as you sink down into your shooting position. If you do some research you'll find much better explanations than the one I just gave.
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I found that getting behind the rifle, then using my feet to dig in and crawl towards the rifle enough to keep it held in shoulder pocket without holding anything, or bipod slipping on carpet (prone mat on range is carpeted). This way it's much more repeatable as you rely on your feet to push you forward. But I also align my rifle with target, then stand up behind rifle, aligned with inner foot of shooting side, go prone then take up slack by digging my feet and crawling forward.
 
Body position is key as has already been mentioned by a few. The following should help you sort out your prone position with a bipod.


 
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