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Accu Tac sled feet thoughts

Sgtsideways

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Anybody using the above sled feet? Curious as to what you think of them and their performance. I noticed that they don't pivot and seem to rest on a single point area and not on the entire pad. I assume that this is to minimize friction with the contacting surface, and direct recoil to the shoulder.

Anything better out there that can be attached to Accu Tac bipods?
 
X2 sled feet on Super Cal bipod. Great for smooth surfaces like wood bench top, concrete, and grass. Follows the FTR esque straight back movement on recoil. I find works best on heavier rigs. (14lbs + rigs and great on 20lbs + rigs)
 
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Necrothread but just to add onto this because I could never find much info about it, I was pretty skeptical but I recently tried the sled feet on an accutac and as others mentioned on hard/flat surfaces, wood, concrete, even rubber mats on benches I really find the sled feed easier to shoot off of than the standard rubber feet. Especially on grippy surfaces like rubber bench tops the sled feet really seem to move more predictably under recoil. Prone I feel like it makes less difference, probably because it's easier to do better recoil management but on a bench the sled feet really seem to work nice. There was not a huge difference in my groups, but overall across a few rifles it's enough to notice back to back. You can really see it on a bench while trying to spot shots that the sled feet seem to have way less scope view disturbance and the path of that disturbance is more consistent.

The only thing I've noticed is if you are shooting at a good incline and you start to rock onto the "toes" of the sled feet it gets noticeably more unstable, same is true if you have anything off camber, which makes sense. It would be interesting to try the ski feet they have that always stay flat no matter what the tilt of the bipod is. I did not like the sled feet in soft materials like soft dirt/sand. Mostly because they seem to "dig in" every shot quite a bit and require significant elevation changes, where spike feet seem to sink less once you get them planted from shot to shot.
 
One nice thing about ski feet on a bench is that it’s easy to move from target to target.

That said, I’m not totally sold on ski feet. On a bench I still bounce between an X-shaped sand bag, bipods with rubber feet and with ski feet.

For a while I tried spike feet on a carpeted bench and, meh (might be me, though).

All-in-all, It sorta seems like I might shoot a hair better with rubber feet and my LRA fclass bipod over everything (except my AI bipod on my AT). But unlike the AI bipod, the LRA takes time to transition from target to target.