Cyke-pod by MDT

No price yet, went on the american MDT site to check. When I looked the cyke up before the acquisition it was around 450 usd.
 
I’ve been running a 6-9” Harris style bipod and it’s not bad, especially for prone shooting but when you get into the PRS style action shooting there’s been a number of times I’ve wished for spikey feet or especially extra height. The last few matches have had a lot of uphill shots and the 9” just isn’t enough elevation so then I lose time trying to throw bags underneath the bipod or something.

I was looking at the Atlas which I think is probably a great bipod but just talking to guys who use them they sometimes complain that it’s hard to adjust while you’re on the rifle which is back to stealing seconds off a short time window.
 
You're right TRDYamahauler that the Harris definitely has it's limitations when you get away from standard prone shooting, and that is why the Ckye Pods were developed in the first place. Ckye Thomas is from Montana and competes in a lot of field matches down there and all over the West Coast. In field matches you'll run into a lot more high angle, high prone, tall grass or just awkward terrain than you would on a "square range" match and the Ckye Pod just helps give you a more competitive advantage.

If you're coming out to the Pemberton match next month, there will probably be at least one or two there to try out!
 
Kane519 said:
I just have a hard time justifying the cost over a Harris. Maybe if I tried one I could, but right now it just seems like a lot of money for little gain.
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Quite honestly, this bipod isn't for people who can't see the advantage of it. As mentioned below, it excels in field type matches with lots of natural terrain which may make it hard or impossible to tackle the stage with a "standard" (say Harris or Atlas) bipod. The Snipers Hide Cup in Washington state was an excellent example of where a lot of stages couldn't be shot with a Harris or Atlas - I bet I shot 40+% of the stages with a tripod as my Atlas couldn't get me in a position where I could see and engage the targets.

This bipod has a better build quality than an Atlas or a Harris, easier and rapid adjustments (minus cant tension - but that is not something that needs to be changed once dialed in anyways IMO), more adjustments and stability, and a neat feature such as a built in barricade stop.

Definitely the law of diminishing returns applies here. The big advantage is field matches. If none of the design features seem like they would help your shooting much, and you've never felt held back by the Harris, then I would stick with the Harris.

The Harris is 75% of the bipod the Ckye-Pod is, but at ~20% of the price. I absolutely love my Ckye-Pod, but for most people here I would dare say that the extra expense of the Ckye-Pod would not warrant the extra cost. That's up to you as a consumer to decide.
 
Da Jimmer said:
Does anyone find there to be a lot of play in the Ckye-pod?
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I've heard this complaint a lot lately.

Mine is from the second batch to ever be produced, before production was taken over by MDT. While the term "a lot" is subjective, I don't think my ckye-pod has a lot of play. My Ckye-pod has less play or slop in it then the Atlas bipods I own.

I'm not sure if I perhaps got lucky, if the newer MDT produced bipods have more play in them, or if our definitions of "a lot" are pretty different. But you are not alone in that, and I'm curious as to what the newer ones feel like.
 
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