[Titans Workshop of Horrors] The Quadpod Setup

[TITAN308]

New thread title format for my whacky adventures.

In case you have not picked up on it yet; I am a tinker fanatic, day dreamer, engineer, designer. Add the word "horrible" in front of most of these descriptions if you were to ask some people.

So Im sitting around staring at my parts bin - just kind of letting my brain wander like when I was a kid - sketching, holding mismatched parts up to other mismatched parts. You get the idea.

I am tinkering with how a bipod is built. Take it apart. Put it back together. Manipulate some pieces to see how far they WILL manipulate. Etc. Etc.

Then I think to myself, "What does every good creator do that ultimately screws up or is like a choirs of angels in the sky?"

If something uses a particular item - ADD more of said item!

Its so OBVIOUS! I mean take a pepperoni pizza for example. An extra pepperoni pizza you say?!?!

GENIUS.

And thus I present the QUADPOD setup.



Granted Im missing another standard bipod to actually make the QUADPOD setup - the idea is staring us all in the face!

Now the only serious question of this entire post...

Would having double the contact points on a surface offer any functional advantages (no matter how small) or would it be completely and utterly redundant?

/sits down with a corn pipe that blows bubbles and strokes his beard


Mmmm yes, indeed. Hmmm.

 

[XM855]

You really only need three points of contact (two legs on the bipod and the shooter) for a stable shooting platform. If you use good shooting technique the other two legs are redundant at the very least. Physically two of the legs wouldn't even touch the ground if you have an elevation change while shooting.

 

[TITAN308]

What if you made it so the rear set of legs were under some tension and would auto adjust (think "car shocks") due to elevation.

Two legs static, two legs dynamic. What if we made all four legs dynamic?

I'm real good at asking bizarre questions. Hope you are prepared. lol

 

[armoredman]

Hmm, a car shock setup might be interesting for long range shooting...but I have zero experience in that.

 

[henschman]

The "car shocks" wouldn't add much if any stability, because they would never actually support any of the weight of the rifle (which is the point of a bipod).

Also, a quadrapod would add so much weight and bulk that it wouldn't have much appeal for any practical field use.

 

[WTBguns10kOK]

Figure out some way to get an angled backward-facing bipod with shocks to reduce recoil on bigger calibers and that'd be sweet.