My Stoney Point Variations

[kel]

Got the idea from the post by Unloaded located here:

http://www.predatormastersforums.com/for...911#Post2174911

Stoney point bipods were a great idea, but just poorly executed imo. Too much rubber involved which makes heavier guns not very stable and wanting to flop over to the side.

I went to Lowes and bought some really light wood out of the trim section and made myself a bipod and tripod in the length I needed for kneeling during night hunting. I normally hunt alone so anything to help makes it easier. The size is bigger than the Stoney Point but really is just about right to give a good handhold while shooting. And the weight is pretty close to the Stoney Points. The downside is the legs aren't adjustable but one of these days when I'm bored, and the stoney point breaks and donates it's adjustable legs to me I'll be able to incorporate that.

I didn't know that the Stoney Point adapter comes with the attachment hardware for the sling swivel so I ended up with a few extras. Cost of the adapter and hardware is around $20 plus I figure I have about $7 in each bipod. I had made the tripod when I was experimenting with shooting sticks and normally didn't carry it hunting but with the attachment it makes an absolutely rock steady base and may become my normal companion. My favorite part is if you need a bipod/tripod it takes 1 second to put it on or off. I started to manufacture the Stoney Point adapter but the little plunger balls that are used are expensive and it's just as cheap to buy the adapter if you can find it which may become harder as I think they've been discontinued. I got mine from Amazon and took advantage of the free shipping.

Guns, Stoney Point and wood bipod/tripod

 

[IAHunter84]

Very cool, kel. I have also messed around trying to make some sticks with various parts but never came up with anything i liked or sturdy enough. I have stuck with a couple dowels attached with a bungee. How did you make the top piece where the legs go in? How are the legs attached? Everything i tried i ended up with that top being wobbly.

 

[kel]

The legs are made with I guess you would call them square dowels? Off the shelf from Lowes. I believe they were color coded green on the ends. The next size down was a bit too flexible for my liking. Basically the top is made from 2 triangles with a strip of wood down the sides and on top equal to the size of the dowels so the fit is nice and sturdy. I just used a metal pin at the top of the dowels, with the hole drilled into each side of the triangles to keep them in place and allow the legs to pivot closed when not being used. When you open the legs they touch the outside piece that is between your triangles and stay put.

It's surprising how much sturdier the Stoney Point system is when you get rid of that flexible rubber that the bipod is made of. I still use that bipod but only on light guns. The wood I used was also by the dowels and it is almost like balsa but thicker. Very light. Like I said, I didn't weight the different finished pieces but the wood ones feel real close to the original Stoney Points.

To mount the adapter you just need to drill a hole thru the top of the bipod and run a 1/4" (don't remember the pitch offhand) bolt up thru bipod and I glued it in tight.

Like I was saying. I made these bipods to shoot from the kneeling position before Unloaded posted about using the adapter to attach Trigger Sticks. I have a mono pod Trigger Stick that just didn't want to cooperate with having a base attached to it so I took these and modified them to attach to the Stoney Point adapter. The drilled and tapped hole on the bottom of my Trigger Sticks was a 1/2" fine thread in case anybody was wondering.