Bipods can hurt accuracy if poor form is used or if the stock on the rifle has a lot of flex and allows the stock to contact the barrel.

Yes.

A bipod properly used will allow you to manage recoil better. With the front and rear of the rifle bagged you will get all of the reoil. With proper form, straight behind the rifle, and preloading the bipod the shooter is less affected by recoil.

I was asked to shoot several firemen's rifles when they came out pre-elk hunt. They did lots of shooting from a large front bag and were getting recoil flinches and telling me they were getting beat up. When I got behind their rifle I attached my Harris to the front, double checked barrel channel clearance and checked their zeros. I turned in tighter shots and had no complaints of recoil from a 300 WSM, a 300 Win Mag, and a 7 Rem Mag.

SB...you can't go wrong with a Harris probably the best bipod on the market when you factor in the cost of the higher end ones.

i just use my pack to shoot off of, i've pretty much done away with all my bipods for hunting

Fireman, is "preloading" putting forward or rearward pressure on the bipod? I would think if it
is helping to reduce recoil it must be rearward...???

Thanks.