Patent ID: 7676979

Claim:
A rifle stock with a bipod support, comprising: a rifle stock having a front forearm, said front forearm having a bottom; a leg support cutout in said bottom of front forearm, said leg support cutout large enough to receive a bipod support in a folded position for storage of the bipod support; and two leg grooves to receive legs of the bipod support when in a folded position for storage of the bipod support further including a bipod support to support said front forearm, comprising: a leg support having a top, bottom, a front face, a rear face and two sides; two legs, each of said legs including a support end and a surface end, said support end including a pin hole; two pins; said leg support including two leg slots, each of said leg slots for receiving said support end of one of said two legs, each of said leg slots having an opening at said bottom of said leg support as an entrance to each of said leg slots by said support end of said legs, said leg support including two pin holes on said front face and two pin holes on said rear face, said pin holes of said front face aligned with said pin holes of said rear face such that there are two pairs of pin holes to receive said two pins, one of said pair of said pin holes aligned over one of said leg slots and the other of said pair of said pin holes aligned over the other of said leg slots, said leg support ends attached to said leg support by placing each of said support ends in one of said leg slots and inserting one of said pins into said pin holes of said leg support and said support end, each of said leg slots wide enough to allow rotation of said support end of legs about said pins; a spring between each of said leg slots and each of said support ends of said legs to bias each leg in an outward position from said leg support; a ball mounted to said front forearm in the area of said leg support cutout, said ball having a diameter, said ball being spherical in shape with two sphere portions of said diameter removed to form two flat entrance sides on said ball, said entrance sides parallel to each other; and a ball mount receiver to receive said ball, said ball mount receiver including an entrance slot and a ball retention area, said entrance slot leading to said ball retention area, said entrance slot having two parallel slot sides that form said entrance slot, said entrance slot being be smaller between said two slot sides than that of said diameter of said ball, such that said ball can only enter and exit said entrance slot when said entrance sides are parallel with said two slot sides, said ball retention area being large enough to receive said diameter of said ball from said entrance slot and allowing said leg support to rotate about said ball when said ball is in said ball retention area.