The Grippod is probably the most elegant, intuitive, and graceful solution to a problem that I never have.
I swear they must be useful for something, but I can't seem to keep mine on rifles for more than a couple of days before I get fed up with them and take them back off.
They're a crappy VFG, regardless of the technique you use, even when "choking the chicken" the boxy mounting interface places your hand too far below the center of gravity.
As a bipod, again, they're sub-standard. They're long and unweildy in almost every situation. Transitions between multiple targets are harder with it than they would be without.
Yet, I can't bring myself to get rid of them, because they seem like such a simple and well executed concept... just not useful... In all fairness, mine were "gratis," so to speak, so I was never out any money on them, other than the usual, obviously.
If I have the option - I'm going to shoot from the prone. However, I find the least POI shift and the most speed and flexibility shooting from a monopoded thirty rounder.
If pulling security or in a hide or a support by fire position, I have a Harris BRM-S 6-9" in a LaRue mount in my assault pack.
They do, however, make for good kickstands in the DFAC, as others have mentioned. Have you ever
seen a DFAC floor?
ETA: come to think of it - I do think the longest time I may have ever had one mounted continuously without removal was while transient through Man-Ass en route to theater...
~Augee