KJI Precision's humble beginnings began in 2013 with the design of a rifle rest by two SWAT officers, Garret Hellinger, and Matt Banes, as well as master product developer. Given their LE experience, the two officers were looking for a way to minimize human factors, especially stress-induced, detrimental to precise shot placement. They also wanted to ensure their shooting rest solution was lightweight and mobile, yet rock-solid with fluid horizontal and vertical tracking.

Shortly after the Reaper Rest was developed, Gabe Snyder joined Matt and Garret as a partner and began managing product design and development. Gabe’s efforts enhanced design, development, and patentable innovation efforts tremendously and, in 2015, KJI unveiled the Reaper Grip.

With the immediate rise of KJI’s popularity among special-operations law enforcement officers and military personnel, scores of hunters and competitive shooters also took notice. The Reaper Grip took hunting and shooting by storm and positioned KJI on the industry’s leading edge.

The KJI Reaper Grip provides a stable mount for rifles to be shot from a tripod and in KJI’s case the mounting system consists of padded clamps that wrap around the rifle stock.

The grip is curved, hand shape like, that is not only applying sideway vice-like pressure, but also pulls from the top-down the rifle to secure it even more and mitigate recoil shift. Due to the construction of the jaws, one of them being floating, the Reaper Grip grabs tapered stocks very securely.

The smooth 360 pan and tilt range of 109° have a separate drag control – this means that you are in full control of separation for horizontal and vertical movement allowing for rapid multiple target engagement at the same distance.

The Reaper Grip tripod head has a locking arm that can be locked in the desired position for added stability. The Reaper Grip can be used on tripods with 3/8" and 1/4-20" threads (threaded bolts included)

Both the Picatinny and Arca Swiss variants also feature horizontal swiveling of the mount by 11° in both directions, making it easier to mount the rifle.

The Reaper Rail head can be mounted on medium and heavy-duty tripods with 3/8-16" threaded studs and has the same adjustment options as the Reaper Grip tripod head.

This allows for tilts in the range of 108° (21° up and 87° down), as well as the 360° pan option for horizontal target tracking. Of course, the accessories of the Reaper Grips like the Rig Accessory Plate also fit, and there is also a version as a direct mount kit available.

The Reaper Rail tripod head allows mounting on weapons with Picatinny or Arca-Swiss rail, which is an advantage especially for tactical weapons. If the rail is integrated, no further adapters need to be used and the weapon can be clamped 100% tight. As a disadvantage, you can actually specify here that just classic hunting rifles or sporting rifles do NOT have these interfaces, and these are also difficult to retrofit.