Tier One tactical bipod

[foxerklw]

Bear with me! I bought the 180mm carbon version with pan and tilt after reading lots of reviews and watching the YouTube videos available.

As a thermal user I liked the pan feature most of all, not having to lift the rifle and reposition if I'd got the alignment wrong or the target had moved whilst transitioning from spotter to weapon scope, and running the risk of taking a shot whilst the Harris sping loaded legs were under tension!

Anyway my problem is this :- whilst watching one of the tier ones videos craig mentioned you could deploy the legs without having to depress the latch. Once deployed they'd lock in position, then you'd need to press the button on each leg to fold them away, fair enough, that's exactly how I'd like it!

The bipod I purchased has one leg that deploys without having to press the release switch, and the other that requires the switch to be pressed before it will deploy. I took it back to the retailer who had another in stock, and that particular bipod needed the button pressing on each leg.

So my questions are :-

Should the legs deploy without having to press the button

And if so, is there an adjustment I can make to enable the other leg to do so

TIA

Foxer

 

[jcampbellsmith]

Foxer

I suggest you try contacting Contact Us
however you may not get much sense out of them. I certainly gave up on them after trying to get screws out of them to fit my rail to my action.

Regards

JCS

 

[Gm81]

I took mine back as the legs deploy if you fire the rifle off the sticks. So they changed the legs. Also the pic rail locking lever didn't lock. So they swapped that. Lucky friends had been repair for free so I mentioned this and didn't get charged. But I felt they were going too. The design had changed slightly. So must have been a problem. I don't think they are as good as people think.
I have just tried mine and it will let you pull the legs out.
If yours doesn't let the legs out one notch at a time when fired off sticks we could swap

 

[foxerklw]

Foxer

I suggest you try contacting Contact Us
however you may not get much sense out of them. I certainly gave up on them after trying to get screws out of them to fit my rail to my action.

Regards

JCS

I took mine back as the legs deploy if you fire the rifle off the sticks. So they changed the legs. Also the pic rail locking lever didn't lock. So they swapped that. Lucky friends had been repair for free so I mentioned this and didn't get charged. But I felt they were going too. The design had changed slightly. So must have been a problem. I don't think they are as good as people think.
I have just tried mine and it will let you pull the legs out.
If yours doesn't let the legs out one notch at a time when fired off sticks we could swap

JCS I actually spoke with Craig this morning whilst at the retailers. He said their designed to be deployed whilst pressing the release catch, but I said that contradicts what was said in the overview video. He went on to say they can be force, but not on my watch at that kind of money.!

Gm81 I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, my issue is with folding the legs down, not the spring loaded height adjustment notches, sorry if I've got this wrong and your just pointing out another potential issue

Thanks fellas

 

[stevenedwards]

Just checked mine. Both legs deploy without pushing the buttons and fold by depressing the buttons. The issue I have is that the tensioning screw and its nasty little knob do not maintain the tension set, canting the rifle to level it undoes the screw and all tension is lost. My excellent RFD is trying to get a better lever and is going to experiment with either O rings or washers for me. The fact he is offering to do this leads me to think, possibly wrongly, that there isn't much support. Mine is a couple of months old.

 

[foxerklw]

Just checked mine. Both legs deploy without pushing the buttons and fold by depressing the buttons. The issue I have is that the tensioning screw and its nasty little knob do not maintain the tension set, canting the rifle to level it undoes the screw and all tension is lost. My excellent RFD is trying to get a better lever and is going to experiment with either O rings or washers for me. The fact he is offering to do this leads me to think, possibly wrongly, that there isn't much support. Mine is a couple of months old.

Doesn't sound great does it! Both yours deploy, only one of mine does, and the other set the retailer still has neither do lol. It also contradicts what's stated by tier one themselves, it may well be refund Saturday tomorrow.!

 

[Gm81]

JCS I actually spoke with Craig this morning whilst at the retailers. He said their designed to be deployed whilst pressing the release catch, but I said that contradicts what was said in the overview video. He went on to say they can be force, but not on my watch at that kind of money.!

Gm81 I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, my issue is with folding the legs down, not the spring loaded height adjustment notches, sorry if I've got this wrong and your just pointing out another potential issue

Thanks fellas

You're correct I misunderstood you about the legs. But mine don't need to be released to fold down, only to fold away.
If that helps.

 

[Jamesy13]

I was tempted by these but went with an Atlas instead. If you decide the go for a refund I would highly recommend an Atlas. I now hate using the old Harris on my .22 hornet and tempted to put a pic rail on it so it too can use the Atlas.

 

[fizzbangwhallop]

The legs on mine fold down without needing to press the button as they were designed to….. if you compare the detents in the bracket the legs folded up one is shallower than the legs down, locked position detent… allowing it to ride out when folding the legs down.
I turned the legs round on mine so I could use my thumb rather than a finger to control the latch and height… gives me a stronger hold to take the weight of the rifle…. Iirc, there’s a spring washer in the pivot which let me stiffen the joint.

For a locking lever…. SD member freid got me one from Berger Tools Ltd, ref GN302.1-30-M5-SW and very nice it is too with a short lever. Fitted so it faces me and can be tightened with my thumb.

Adjustable Hand Levers, Clamping Levers & Tension Levers

Adjustable Hand Levers, Clamping Levers & Tension Levers provide greater torque & control for workholding uses. Quick & easy to use. UK supplier, next day delivery.

www.berger-tools.co.uk

More choices of lever than you could ever possibly need!

So, all in all, I prefer this to my Harris‘ and the originally decent Atlas clones

 

[stevenedwards]

The legs on mine fold down without needing to press the button as they were designed to….. if you compare the detents in the bracket the legs folded up one is shallower than the legs down, locked position detent… allowing it to ride out when folding the legs down.
I turned the legs round on mine so I could use my thumb rather than a finger to control the latch and height… gives me a stronger hold to take the weight of the rifle…. Iirc, there’s a spring washer in the pivot which let me stiffen the joint.

For a locking lever…. SD member freid got me one from Berger Tools Ltd, ref GN302.1-30-M5-SW and very nice it is too with a short lever. Fitted so it faces me and can be tightened with my thumb.

Adjustable Hand Levers, Clamping Levers & Tension Levers

Adjustable Hand Levers, Clamping Levers & Tension Levers provide greater torque & control for workholding uses. Quick & easy to use. UK supplier, next day delivery.

www.berger-tools.co.uk

More choices of lever than you could ever possibly need!

So, all in all, I prefer this to my Harris‘ and the originally decent Atlas clones

I am going to tax my mechanical incompetence and try to do the same, having the tensioner face me would be a useful improvement. thanks for the tips.