When this happened a couple of days ago he called Beretta and spoke to a CS rep... The rep told him that "A7s were not made to shoot off a bipod". When my friend asked if that warning was in the owners manual the rep said "No, but we don't tell you not to run over the stock with a car and you wouldn't do that either would you?".
If a CS rep had said that to me, he'd be in for a string of very bad luck.
I guess I learned something new here - never knew a bipod could cause that much stress on a stock.
OTOH, it's a $30 piece of injection molded plastic.
