Patent ID: 7861452

Claim:
A method of extending heights of each respective leg of bipod legs that support firearms, comprising the steps of: providing a firearm with a vertical fore grip underneath the firearm, the fore grip having bipod stand having two main legs which are positioned at a triangle orientation beneath the vertical fore grip underneath of the firearm; pulling an inner leg portion from at least one of the two legs so that a bottom of the inner leg extends outward beneath an outer bottom portion of the main leg; locking the inner leg to a selected height extended position relative to the outer bottom portion of the main leg; depressing a spring biased latch so that inner leg can ratchet downward to a selected step edge row from a plurality of rows of step edges; extending the bipod leg stand out from underneath the vertical fore grip; and activating a switch which when activated causes the bipod leg stand to move from a retracted position with the legs substantially within the vertical fore grip, to release to an expansion position where most of the legs protrude out beneath the vertical fore grip.