I tested numerous bipods and found that there's really no "perfect" all arounder that fits both hunting and bench rest. I'd start with the low hanging fruit - BR, and say that hands down, the FC-G2 does the job. The legs are just too short for me from anywhere but a bench, so I have to swap in my SR5-G2 legs every now and then (especially when shooting off a mat at paper in uneven terrain).
In the PCP hunting category, I found that it gets pretty interesting (and tricky) finding a bipod that works well with bullpup and standard rifle form factors. Weight also enters the picture, and where this gets complicated is for situations such as mine - when I hunt in the woods / mountains, I may setup for a long range shot with my bipod on a tree stump, a big rock, fallen tree, or down hill - meaning that I need a great deal of length and stability.
With having that said, the Accu-Tacs are
heavy, No question about that, they feel like a brick compared to an Atlas. The he tradeoff with the lighter Atlas bipods (using my BT47 PSR as the example), the legs flex/bend quite a but when fully extended. I do not like my bipod legs to flex, not saying they'll snap - but they can get a little scary. For this reason, the PSR is dedicated to my lighter PCP bullpup hunting rigs. All of my other hunting rifles get the SR5-G2, which is much less of a pain to operate than the Atlas.
So for me, it boils down to these three as my standard equipment, none of which overlap with the other for my specific use cases:
PS - if you're in the market and have to choose between long or short, go long. You can buy extensions if you need them for some, but when you realize that your bipod is too short - you will regret going the shorter route!
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