If you are just looking for PRS type comps and don't mind spending the $ it's had to beat the flexibility of the CkyePod. I could also see a double/triple pull working okay for hunting. Often unless you hunt nothing but the flat desert (and even then) most prone bipods end up being too low to use in a lot of situations with grass, sage, shrubs etc. and you really want something you can almost shoot from a low sitting position. However, if you don't want to drop $700-$1000 on a bipod there are of course other options. At the end of the day most bipods will work, some do things better than others and there are always trade offs. More game has probably been killed with Harris bipods than any of the fancy bipods combined.
I've ran Harris, Elite Iron, CkyePod, various Atlas and Accu-Tac bipods. However to be fair, most of my bipod use is just at the range, I don't shoot much for comps. Mostly these days I've been running the Accu-Tac offerings, but they also have some drawbacks. I guess I'd sum them up as such.
Harris: It's budget, it works, there's all kinds of upgrades you can make to it, but it's not super flexible, however I hunted with one for decades and never had an issue with it, but haven't had one for many years. Plenty of guys shoot them really well.
Elite Iron: Really stable, works well, easy to use, but you can easily spend as much in adapters as you did for the bipod and break $1000 fast. It's also not really flexible from gun to gun, as often you may need to change adapters. They were all the rage a few years ago but you hear almost nothing about them anymore, mine almost never goes to the range with me.
CkeyPod: Only picked one up because it was Black Friday deals. It's crazy adjustable and I can see why PRS guys love it because it can adapt to so many positions. However, it's not the most stable, and guys do seem to have issues breaking some of the parts sometimes. If you wanted a tall bipod I could see the double/triple pull being nice for hunting, other bipods offer leg extensions but they are not really viable in the field to swap out unless you leave them on.
Atlas: I've ran whatever came before the V8, PSR, SuperCal, and 5H. For a smaller, light option the V8 is not bad, but the Cal and SuperCal are the only ones I still have. I'm not a big fan of panning bipods, but for PRS and probably some hunting situations it could be valuable. Before some of the more expensive options came along a lot of guys like the PSR with the longer leg option for PRS. I do love the SuperCal though.
Accu-Tac: I really like these, super solid, easy to adjust, lock up really tight, and they have a nice variety of well made feet, etc. options. Most range days this is what I'm shooting with usually a Cal as a backup. I wouldn't say I shoot any of them "bad" compared to the others but the Accu-tac for me seem to be more consistent in my groups compared to the others. However, I don't think they are as flexible as some other options for games. The leg extension travel on the Accu-tac's are less than say an Atlas of similar size, so you really have to make sure you get the right leg length for your use case. For example the SuperCal is 7.4" at 90 degrees, but adjusts from 5.8" to 11", the WB-5 goes from 5.5-10" with similar 90 deg height. In something smaller the SR-5 goes from 6.5-11" but the Cal in tall version goes from 6.3-12.5".
Also depending on the Accutac model there's a huge difference on overall height so in some models I need the "4" version of legs, and in others I needed the "5" to get the same position on the same gun. For example I'd have to run the WB-5 instead of the WB-4 because the rifle drops much lower into the "cradle" with no panning unit. However the FC-5 was too tall, because the panning unit adds a ton of height. I'd call that another downside really, the panning design they use adds probably at least 1" height to the bipod rifle attachment so the rifle is higher in the cradle than other designs. Usually I'd rather have a bipod be on the taller side because you can usually set the legs out at 45 deg to drop down more, but some shooting situations don't allow that. I'm also not a huge fan of their clamps, they have a really low stack height but they use a shorter 90 deg throw than most lever clamps so they don't have to worry about the lever getting into the legs, but I have to adjust it for just about every rifle I put it on. They did recently make an adapter so you can put a 17s style clamp on (RRS, Area 419, etc.) but on some bipods like the WB-4 or LP-50 where the rifle sits deep in the cradle of the legs, the adapters won't work with a picatinny setup because the clamp lever hits the bipod legs and won't open far enough to remove it. Might be okay on a Arca when you can just slide it off the front, but not on a picatiny rail. I'm not a fan of Arca for anything but gamer guns unless it's one of the types that interlocks.
I will say while not a bipod, I really like the Arisaka Defense Rail Slider clamp. It basically allows you to press a button and then slide the bipod along your picatiny rail, but still has an adjustment to tighten it up solid. Makes it fast to get on/off guns and once you do it only needs about a half turn of the knob to tighten up. I do wish they had a lever instead of the knob to tighten it up, because with the quick adjust button, you never have to give it more than about a turn from rifle to rifle from sliding to tight.
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