boingk wrote:Hi mate, I don't think you'd have trouble mounting a fairly standard bipod to the stock. The action mounts with twin aluminium bedding pillars that are contoured to positively seat the action into the stock. The forestock is hollow honeycomb synthetic but rigid enough given the weight of the rifle.
The compact stock isn't as rigid as the American unfortunately - its a smaller, lighter design and it shows. Still usable but I would probably hold off putting a bipod on it unless its quite small/light/basic.
If you're serious about the American check out Cleavers - they offer it in standard black stock, blued action variant for $1245 including a Vortex Crossfire 3~9x40.
- boingk
This might be the way to go. I do like the look of the American "go wild", but I'm up for a scope and rings on top of the purchase price, and to keep within my budget, I'd probably end up putting that exact scope, or the Diamondback in 3-9x40 on it anyway. So I might go for the package, with the bipod, and put the leftover money into a nice gun bag and some ammo.
Cheers,
Dave.