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A bipod is harder to control. This is especially true off the bench. Any torque introduced by the shooter or the rifle under recoil will cause the rifle to move off alignment. Another example would be extending a leg and holding it when standing or kneeling. Practice is important with bipods. (Even if you are firing an automatic weapon. )

Because there are two legs, you have to apply equal pressure on both. When firing off the ground, "trenching" a bipod is suggested in the field when shooting rifles. Getting both legs into the ground and applying a little forward pressure helps tremendously. You want to restrict the movement of the legs while under recoil.

When firing off a bench, the easiest and cheapest way to achieve this is with a bag of sand. Benches are hard and the rifle will hop under recoil. To minimize this, you need to apply forward pressure onto the bipod to get the legs pressing into the sandbag. This reduces the "jump".

You might also wish to avoid any tall bipods. The higher off the dirt you get with a bipod makes it considerably less stable and almost impossible to control for accurate fire.