Hyskore DLX Precision Rifle Rest Review

Hyskore DLX Shooters rest (pic from Cabelas website)

   <— I do NOT recommend buying this, buy at your own risk.

I was at my local store looking to buy a rifle clamping device so that i could sight in my Mosin-Nagant, AK, and any other long gun i own when I came across this DLX Shooters rest. I was tossing it around between the Lead Sled Solo and this one when I noticed the DLX was on sale for $89.99. The price at that point made it worth my while to at least try and see what it could do.

Let me take a paragraph at this point and explain who I am and what I’m looking for. I am an average Joe consumer. I use public ranges, and am subject to their rules and regulations. I am looking for a decent shooting bench/clamp (whatever you want to call them) to strap my fire-arms into for sighting rectification

DLX Platform with AR15

purposes. I am on an average consumer budget and am looking for the most effective tool for my cash. For this, I’ve looked at quite a few options available at my local stores.

Continuing on…

The Hyskore® DLX Precision Rifle Shooting Rest is promoted as not needing the additional weight others need in order to function properly. This is a true statement. What they don’t tell you, until you read the poorly put together instructions, is that they recommend screwing/bolting it to the shooting surface.

This is all well and good unless you’re like me, the casual shooter with no property large enough to accommodate a rifle range. In such cases they recommend building a bulky wooden platform that the system is bolted to, which then gets clamped to the public ranges shooting surface. After all, you can’t go to the range and screw a decent sized piece of equipment to their bench!

DLX on recommended shooting platform for public ranges (Image from Hyskore 30088 Instruction Manual)

Remember, the image to the right was taken straight from the poorly written instruction manual. The thing that I don’t like about it is that you’re already carrying a pretty bulky 13lb piece of equipment around to the range, who in their right mind would want to carry an extra 2’x4′ bulky wood construct at roughly 15 pounds?

A quick word on the poorly orchestrated instruction manual. While they do have great step-by-step instructions and a bill of materials on building this wooden platform, their instructions on putting together the actual piece of equipment are pretty dismal at best. It took a little while to figure out where the instructions were on a disc only viewable on computer via a .PDF file. They don’t tell you where they are on the disc at all, it’s just a generic disc with what seemed like all of their product documentation on it. The “Instructions” consisted of a picture next to about 15 nonsense lines on how to put the thing together. The comedic factor comes to play when they refer to an

DLX Platform with AR15

elusive “Figure 2” which is FIVE pages later in the document sandwiched between irrelevant info. Actually the first line of instruction references the “Figure 2”. Oh well, eventually I figured out how to put it together.

Okay, let’s break it down to my pros and cons. Remember this is based on my experience and determined by what I need as a casual shooter.

PROS:

• As far as I can see, if you had your own property, it should be pretty stable for standard rifles/shotguns once you have it mounted. There’s a little play, but not much.
• It has fine adjustment knobs that seem to work pretty well.

CONS:

• Can NOT be used with rifles with magazines. E.g. AK’s AR’s Trust me I’ve tried both an AK-47 and an AR-15 with small magazines. The magazine sits on the beam and causes further inconsistency.
• The contraption is not very easy to haul around by itself, let alone with a wooden platform.
• You need to build a wooden platform and carry that sucker with you when you want to shoot at a public range.
• You need to take off the pneumatic “Shock Absorber” and put springs on for use with lower caliber rifles, which is an accessory kit you have to purchase. It does not come with the rig.
• The instructions are TERRIBLY put together.
• The multiple additional videos to watch seem like recycled material.

-NoobCritic