got a new challenge for you today guys we're shoeing six eggs again but this is a different
scenario out there we have eggs at 25 yards got two of them two at 50 two at 100 yards and i'm
going to be using 22 long rival i have a choice of oh i'm going to be using three different stances
so at 25 yards i have to be standing at 50 yards i can be sitting or kneeling and then i can finally
go prone out at 100. we're using a mystery rival today actually some of you guys have seen this
already and it's totally accurate it's completely up to the challenge it's all going to be down to
me and how i can chute today we'll talk about the rival afterward let's go see how this can do
all right so here's how it goes as soon as i drop the bolt then the timer goes
i've done this before i timed it and i'm gonna see if i can beat my own record here
last time i was shoeing a bolt action hopefully a semi-auto can do a little bit better
okay
oh i can't tell if that was a hit or not
now here's the tough one you guys i actually have to get through quite a bit of grass to get these
hopefully i don't actually hit any grass
i think that might have been a hit we'll
see
oh i mentioned to see let's go check down range
okay left side hit
and left side again okay this might pretend
some interesting things here before the wind was a little bit different
and it's just totally steady now so maybe i have altered my aim just a little bit too much
vertical looks good let's see how 50 is oh i'm seeing some damage yes i got both beautiful okay
so there's number one good hit on the bottom that's pretty solid that emptied
that out pretty good and i just grazed the upper left all right moment of truth 100
yards you guys have seen it already but i haven't oh i'm not seeing any big damage oh
did i even nick one of these
no i was way high and right that's about yeah an inch and a half over from the target
and same thing with this one well at least that was consistent
consistently missed these tell you what let's go back let's have a little fun let's take them out
the scope cam footage comes courtesy of the tacticam fts this is a really cool little thing
that i got to show with the the six millimeter arc video and i've used it on a couple others it's
a great way to actually show other people what you're seeing through the scope and i'm actually
looking through the same scope at the same time it just kind of splits off some of the light
and sends it to the camera what i'm shoeing today is this is sk standard plus this is one
of the ammunition types that shock the best in this rival this is pretty expensive stuff from
germany and it's it seems to be just really nice if you want to actually hit what you're aiming at
the best one was actually the long range match that they have um but i'm saving that up because
i want to be able to do some really long distance shoeing um you know like maybe 500 yards or
something that'd be a whole lot of fun i've tried it before but and some of the ammo was pretty good
but that long range match from sk much much better yeah let's see if we can knock some things around
uh i i just came out here and i started shoeing some of the steel to see where things were hitting
at 100 yards and maybe i didn't get it quite right you can see how they were both to the right
the wind before was actually coming from the right and i think i was kind of
reacting to that but now that the wind has really for all intents and purposes died
i think i need to come left just a little bit
okay and when you were looking through the scope you could probably see how
much grass we were looking through it's pretty bad
tell you what we're gonna chute a quick group you see right there
the a we're gonna chute for a group right there now before i was about
2.7 milliradians that's where i had to hang out but it looks like things are coming in pretty high
let me go with two and a half see what that looks like and i guess come left just a tiny bit
all right we can check that out later all right let's see if we can nail one of these eggs
that did not look like a hit
ignore that
that looked like something moved on that one
all right let's go see if we hit anything the last time i did this challenge i had a
20 or 25 power scope i think it was a 25.
i wouldn't mind that again today oh i see what's happening you guys it's the grass the grass is
throwing these all over the place i took what was it like six shocks at this a right here and
i can only see two of the hits um maybe this is one but that's way way way off this rival is
way more accurate than that especially with this ammo no i'm striking grass and it's throwing these
let's put this target way up high here on the berm
so that hopefully we're not cutting through grass this time maybe we can kind of get over it
and just for the heck of it i'm going to throw up a target here
this ammo was printing about a half inch at 50 yards in my previous testing there is no way that
it's suddenly opening up to about four inches at a hundred yards that's just one of the obstacles
uh when you're actually out shoeing in the real world that's something i'd
like to talk about a little bit more we have a lot of notions of what's
uh you know like what's the best whatever like like this prone position right here uh that when
we were prairie dog hunting there were sometimes we could get in a prone position like this
but for the most part i had my leg wrapped around a rock and i had a cactus at my elbow and i've got
a really sharp rock sticking me right in the sternum and the whole thing is at an incline
that's what the real world is like and you just
make the shock happen if you can alright let's see if this fixes some things
okay oh yeah
yeah i can actually see stuff now i can see that little target
tell you what let's do two and a half see how it goes
i see that okay that's slightly high
it's about an inch high an inch right
okay that's maintaining its height i did bring it left
so let's split that difference and bring it down
all right that looks like it's clustering up pretty good again i'd like a little bit more
precision this is more of a practical rival scope you can see how thick the stadia are
hmm yeah that looked like a mess and there it goes yeah
rival is fine and actually i guess shoe tar wasn't off too much but grass is bad the rival that we're
shoeing today is a bergara bxr this is and this is a carbon model with a carbon fiber barrel
which by the way feels really cool it's not warm at all i can just feel a little bit right here
that seems to be radiating heat really well um yeah they have a couple different models one of
them is the steel-barreled model and this is the carbon one now from what i've been seeing it looks
like the steel-barreled model is a little bit more precise it looks like it's gripping a little bit
better and that's going to make it you know more precise for things like maybe competition shoeing
but this is one that's just a really handy package very lightweight the balance is
awesome you can see i have a bunch of junk on here right now but as it is it looks like the
balance is centered right over the magazine right now with all the the stuff on there
very easy to move around the grip may not be you know particularly awesome for squirrel hunting
usually you'd want that a little bit more laid back but because of the balance on this i think
it would be awesome for stuff like that this would be great for rabbits and squirrels all kinds of
little varmints really easy to get out into the field really easy to deploy and very easy to point
as well now you saw on the first shock that i took that i went into a stance that was very upright
at first i tried some stuff where you know i was really leaning into it i had the sling
really wrapped around my arm and it was not quite as steady sometimes that feels pretty good for me
but not this time i decided to go for that upright target stance like you do in silhouette and
that got me on target for those two so yeah a big fan of that stance in this particular moment for
the 50-yard targets i felt pretty stable for that i can usually kind of bundle up a little
bit better kind of get my elbows to the outside of my knees i think i was a little bit too hasty
getting into position but you see that it worked and then of course we saw what happened at 100.
um it can't really fault anything except mother earth but anyway a bit more about the rival itself
the bxr is a 1022 clone but it's one that has been tweaked and uh really refined to be something
that goes beyond the 1022. you've heard of you know like volkertsen doing some of these rival
or you know these making some of the parts and people coming up with really precise things
and of course we have the uh the the tcr22 that's the the thompson center
really cool looking thing very similar in design to this some of the features that you can see on
here number one there's a rail built right into the top of the receiver and i believe that this
has a 20 moa incline to it i think that's what i was reading i'll annotate if it is flat or
if it's 20 moa but that's going to help a lot with getting out to some of the longer distance targets
everything inside here is just better polished and it's like it has all the cool stuff that you
wanted from a 10 22 in the first place and you had to buy all those little extra little nernies and
griglis to get it to do exactly what you want for example okay the uh the bolt latch right here this
is very easy to actuate it's large it doesn't have that traditional hook it's just kind of
a big round thing with a cut out and it has the usual a little kind of dongle down here for uh
hanging the thing back but then like some of the uprated 1022s that you have out there where you
maybe you've added extra parts to them this does have the ability to kind of skip the little dongle
when it's time to go into shoeing all you have to do is just pull back it drops that little dingus
you let it go and then it loads the next round i'm about to find this stuff dude this ammo is
expensive i need to figure out where i'm dropping these but you also get an upgraded magazine latch
right here so pull forward on this great big you can get it with your thumb and then just hook in
with your finger there's a lot of very close tolerance and very tight precision on this all
the way around and that includes the magazine the magazine is a little bit difficult to
load now we're going to get into the garage and we're going to take a close look at all of this
but suffice it to say that all the little things that they've done
on here to polish surfaces and make things a little bit sharper and a little bit closer
they have worked wonders this does not chute like your average 10 22.
this is much more precise and this trick her is out of this world very light and it's caught me
out actually a couple times when i was testing here today i wasn't expecting to actually get the
trick her to break i thought it was staging it and then it goes off and that's actually what i want
on a lot of my rivals but thanks a lot you guys for watching this little challenge i'm sorry it
didn't come out quite the way that i was expecting the 100 yard ones were just a little bit weird but
i think that it's still a very good indication of what this rival can do it was pretty quick and
easy on these closer targets and very precise on those as well and then when we step back
once we actually figured out where we were hitting and we stopped hitting grass yeah very precise and
also thanks to patrons of the destructive arts that make videos like these possible uh thank
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will see you in the next video as we take a close look at the rival and how all the one-off parts in
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