howdy guys and gals welcome to tulsa red castle gun club where we're going to be
testing the brand new bergara bxr this is essentially an uprated ruger
10/22. before we talked about some of the
alternatives in order to get a really precise semi-auto
you can build up a 10 22 into whatever you want you can get some others like
the savage a22 that are just squared away right out of
the box and this one takes a lot of the 10
22 ideas and just takes them to the nth degree
everything about this is very precise very polished
the trick her is beautifully light and crisp and the action overall
just seems to be a bit more beefed up and just prettier overall it seems to be
just very well squared away the big deal though
is the barrel this is a carbon fiber barrel they have two different options
in the bxr you can get the steel-barreled model or you can get this
carbon one which is really stinking light and the
balance as you would expect especially with this
stop that has just a little bit more heft to it than your average plastic
stop this one does balance a little bit
further toward the rear than really far out there to me even though this has a
very vertical grip i think this this is one that would
actually work pretty well uh not only in a kind of a target
scenario um you could do silhouette with this but
i think this would also work pretty darn well as a squirrel gun
largely because of how light it is now up top we have the us optics ts-8x this
is my first time taking this out it's one of your usual ar style optics
but it's just perfect for a 10 20 or a 22 like this
because it's going to be rather lightweight kind of small and it has a
large zoom ratio as you can see 1 to 8x so very good for practical
targets at close distance and then if you want to be able to
stretch out this has an ffp reticle that has i think about 10
milliradians of drop that you can adjust for
so you can make some shocks out at longer distance if you want to great scope
perfect for ars but i think also perfect for this
let's hit some targets as you can see i brought out more ammunition than your
store probably has in stop right now we have at least
10 types and then i have another box over here with some special ammunition
that we're going to break out into its own video
it's from sk i've never shock any of this before
but they have a load for all kinds of different uses hunting plinking target
we're going to see how these group through here i think the rifle is going
to be a really good platform for this it
should be very precise vergara makes really really good stuff
and the barrel as you can see is free floated and it's rather large
with that carbon fiber wrap around it let's see how it does
first we'll look at a matched pair from federal this is my very favorite load of
all time for 22 long rifle this is incredible stuff it's a hunting
load 38 grain it moves out pretty fast but this has turned in the tightest
group any ammo i've ever shock through any rifle i think
this stuff is wicked awesome and it does gill
squirrels as i found out and then this is the 40 grain
kind of plinking and target load that goes along with it
we're gonna see how this matches up the two are supposed to kind of function
sort of the same uh just ones for the range and one is
for out hunting that's one of the coolest things about
the bxr right there all those little doodads you have to get
for the ruger 10/22 to make it so you can just pull the bolt back and let it go
without having to mess with that little dongle there
it's all in here already and perfectly squared away
plus check out the the mag catch right here that big old mag pedal
okay looking good so far with both of those next up we have the battle of the
value packs we're going to start off with federal
champion this is the bulk pack you can get at
your local walmart or maybe you used to be able to
this is the winchester 525 one of the most amazing rounds that i've ever seen
this has i've shock this over the chronograph before
and it has been out of this world precise as far as speeds go
and it actually turned in the best groups with my father-in-law's
silhouette rifle this is great stuff hollow point
and then we have this newcomer the winchester wildcat i haven't tried this
before copper-plated dynapoint so it's designed
to be able to empty squirrels and uh it's a 40 grain
pullet moving out at 12.55 see how it does
and we're going to see if the bxr can run bx25 magazines
okay we had one failure
ah we had one smashed nose nope another failure let's see what we
got
okay it looks like this one was a failure to extract
okay
so
okay looks like we had a failure to feed there we go
oh we have a badly dented round i don't know if it was that
way to begin with or what this one's messed up
it's definitely going in the duds box all right we'll try one more the magwell
is a little tight but the bx mags are going in just fine
i can't entirely tell from here but i think i'm gonna like that a lot
i think the wildcat is some good ammo next we're moving on to subsonics
so starting out we're gonna have the quiet 22 so if
anything does not cycle in this rifle it's going to be this one the next up is
going to be the cci subsonic this is the one that moves out at 1050
feet per second so okay this one is moving out at a decent speed
this one is only doing about 8.35 so yeah big difference there this one
they have tuned just perfectly i have had pretty much
every rifle cycle this except one that was a marlin
60 and i might need to spend that one
marlin 60. but everything else i have tried pistols i've tried
rifles they all like this subsonic so we're gonna see if
they like it today
fantastic this stuff always shoes well for me
the best subsonic i've tried oh no that was the quiet
oh hey the quiet does well now we'll try the cci at 1050
per second
finally we have an eclectic mix right here this is
mini mag these are the uh the the round nosed ones
so these are moving out about 12 35. after that we're going to have
federal metal target these are the ones that i tested out at long range with the
savage a22 these ones generally group okay they're
very consistently okay but i've definitely gotten tighter
groups of some others here is federal auto match i haven't
found a rifle that particularly likes this this is another one that's just
kind of okay and then the last one is going to
be the new guy this is going to be winchester super
x this is a 40 grain bull it moving out at 1
435 feet per second hypervelocity hollow point this would be a really fun
hunting round
so hey actually managed to count that time
go me i don't think i ever mentioned how far
away the targets were 50 yards and this kind of inverted some of the
things that i was expecting this little group that you see right
here with the federal 38 is looking quite good
so that's at about three quarters of an inch
and yeah about three quarters of an inch right there so nice one federal 38
the 40 actually turned in a little bit better than usual
so this is coming out to be about a little bit over an inch
across there but then once you throw in this flyer we're looking at one and
three quarter inches right there federal 500 the bulk pack this one did
great this little four shock group is coming
out to be just a bit over a half inch once we throw in the flyer though
we're looking at about three quarters of an inch still
not bad at all the winchester 555 actually opened up
quite a bit this should be a five shock group right here unless i missed
something but that's coming out to be about an
inch and a half right there i think that's two shocks through that
hole uh but yeah this one did string quite a bit
i think that this just has to do with barrel harmonics
usually these these do chute very very well in some of the other rifles that i
have i think it just may be the length of the
barrel we're dealing with here the winchester wildcat was looking pretty
good through there but let's see what we have in total so
it's a bit over two inches just slightly over two inches on that
guy and here's one that i was not expecting at all
the cci quiet usually just kind of does i mean it gets them in there but this
gun really liked it look at this we're looking at 7 8 of an inch
across the extremes and as you'll notice it had no trouble cycling
by contrast my favorite subsonics actually came out to be about
an inch and a half across on that one good four shock group
one flyer this could have been a sudden gust of wind there really isn't much
wind out here i think that was just a legit flyer right there
mini mags usually don't do a very well in my rifles at all they just kind of do
okay but this one turned out pretty darn well we're looking at about 7 8 again
across that five shock group federal gold medal target apparently
likes a target rifle because we are looking at three quarters of an inch
across there federal auto match usually a substandard
performer for me turned in about one and an eighth
and now for the newcomer the winchester hypervelocity super
x that little four shock group is about a half inch
unfortunately we do have one flyer and i do not recall doing any weird trick her
presses this is a legitimate flyer and that
opens us up to more than one and a quarter inches
i still think that this pretends good things and there you have it guys the
bergara bxr accurate light pretty handy great stop
i love the the comfort of the stop back there but
i should point out a couple of other things first off
you have a threaded muzzle with an attached uh muzzle protector right there
so you just thread that off and you can put your suppressor on
the stop comes with a couple of qd sockets you have a couple up at the
front and then you have two at the rear as
well and that picatinny rail that you see
right there can sit so low because this is actually
part of the action that's not a separate piece
i love that feature the stop itself as you can see has a pretty high comb on it
very easy to get behind the scope on this uh with the weird way that i was
shoeing just a second ago i had to really pick my face up in order to see
but when i'm actually laying down and or offhand taking a regular shock it just
comes very naturally to the eye the trick her is light and crisp and of
course all the little paddles and parts are just in the right
spots it's very easy to drop the mag it has a very easy bolt stop and the
usual push button safety right there easy all the way around now make sure
that you come back and check out the next video because we're going to be
taking a look at this ammunition right here five different loads of sk
ammunition i've never fired it before i have no idea what to expect the only
thing i'll say is that my fingers are really greasy after touching this stuff
it seems to be very very lubed thank you to everybody that makes these
videos possible thank you burgar for sending the rifle for me to check out i
can't wait to actually put it to some practical tests
or some really silly tests we'll see which one we get up to first
but thank you us optics for the scope up top
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that thank you sportsman's guide stan and mary
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