AirForce Bi-Pod Too Loose???
The AirForce Bi-Pod has one flaw…it woobles and is too loose where the legs connect to the mount. That results in a “loose” hold when trying to do a little bench rest work.
Here’s an inexpensive and easy way to correct that:
That’s right, you ignorant goobers….one or two O-rings around the knob of the bi-pod. A 3/4″ OD O-ring is what worked for me. I didn’t have a thick one, so I put two thinner ones on to see if it would work.
It works just fine. I recommend a single thick O-ring, again 3/4″ OD, take the bi-pod off the mount, slide the O-ring down around the head (it will be very tight), put the mount back on.
For information purposes, the bi-pod seems to collapse and fold one way easier than the other. Determine this before you put the bolt back in, and place the “easy” fold direction where your ‘pod legs are when folded. I put some silicone lube on the O-ring to extend the friction life.
Thank you…..thank you very much…….Hoot has left the building!
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AF??? I was told it was. I picked it up from a TAG member. I don’t really care. It’s a great bi-pod, nice and compact. It just wiggled too much. I tried to fit the O-rings up in the mount at first, but no way it would fit.
A close fit is essential to a good outcome. That sucker needed to snug up the loose goods, and get the job done. A lesser man would have failed.
(Why, yes…I have lost a few pounds! Thank you. Now, all my ribs show.)
Anyway…I was reading “Gentlemen Hog Farmers Quarterly” that Pablouk sent me from the UK, and it had an article on castrating boars with a rubber ring that fits snugly around their junk, cutting off the blood supply to their nuts. After a while, they just drop off. The nuts, that is…well, I guess the ring would too, come to think of it. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I was thinking about how much fun it would be to “Ring A Boar”, well hell…ring Pab for that matter…when it occured to me that if I put an O-ring close to the body of the mount, and let the legs hang out, as with the boar, I could achieve the desired effect…
Genius. Pure and simple. Now, everyone send me money.
Thank you.
Hoot 😯
looks similar to a versa-pod…
pretty good idea…
Has AF changed their bipod? Mine looked nothing like that.
Hoot, have you gained weight since I last saw you?
Thanks for the tip; mine is loose also.
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No way in heck that i am going to put one much less 2 orings around my
knob……