The mount is attached to a gimble style head that can to pivot in several directions. The M-Lok method is equally as slow to attach or remove as well. The two screws on the rail mount system can be tighten with either an Allen wrench or a flat head screw driver and are not intended to be attached or removed often. Neither the M-Lok mount nor the rail mount system are quickly attached or detached. This is a good idea as the sling swivel stud is still the most popular method of mounting a bipod, as least on bolt guns. A third option, a quick detachable sling stud mount, will be available in the next few months. We elected to try out the rail mounted version, though an M-Lok mount would be nice on any of the modern AR platforms and chassis bolt guns that have a M-Lok forend. There are several different mounting heads available on these bipods including a direct M-Lok mount, which should come as no surprise from Magpul, and a mount that attaches to a Picatinny rail. The bipod comes in a nice box with some simple instructions and other basic information. It is nice that a bipod is light weight, under a pound in this case, but that is not a higher priority than strength and durability. But polymers are also not as durable and strong as steel, so there was the need to incorporate some of the hard stuff in the design. This use of polymers is one of the things that allowed them to keep the overall weight low. So it should come as no surprise that the construction of their bipod also includes the use of polymers, combined with both steel and aluminum. Magpul built its company on designing and manufacturing polymer magazines, stocks and other accessories. The model we elected to review was their Picatinny rail mounted version in Flat Dark Earth (FDE, or more commonly known as “tan”). We thought we would take some time and review one of these new bipods and see how it compares to the old reliable Harris and try to make our own determination on its suitability for sniper use. Magpul has similarly been expanding its offering of available products and they just recently came out with their own bipod with their own unique twist and design. Some bipods are well over $300 USD, and the argument can be made that some of those bipods are even worth that kind of money. Available options cover a wide assortment of complexity, durability, flexibility and of course, price. But it seems that every year now there are more and more bipod options available for snipers and marksmen. Two decades ago, the only real bipod option on the market was the unit from Harris and that bipod is still considered the market leader.
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