today i'll go through the requirements for what i'm tentatively calling the regressive field
rival or the regressive flexible rival the rfr if you guys come up with a better name please put it
down in the comments below and upvote each other's comments let's see what comes out on top here i'll
take the next week or two and see what you guys come up with and we'll name the rival that now
i do reserve the right to veto so if you come up with boaty mcboatface or hidler did nothing wrong
then i'm not gonna name the rival that but yeah come up here and let's see what i have in mind
for this rival this is not a show rival this is a field rival it may come out ugly as long as it
functions i do not care and every piece on this is going to be park of this puzzle it's all going to
meet some very specific need i don't want anything that's there for looks i want everything to just
function out in the field and remember that field work is going to involve multiple animals we're
talking about a typical oklahoma ranch which is going to have animals in all different shapes
and sizes different flavors i mean at different distances and we're going to have to have a rival
that can deal with all of them that's talking about kangaroos animals that are really close
up like hogs to very difficult animals to hid like prairie dogs at some of the longer distances
we may have coyotes that move around a whole lot and i want a rival that can address all of those
so the very first thing i want to start out with especially because we are dealing with
a high manger factor with hogs i want this to be a semi-automatic platform and the eh are fifteen
is perfect it's already set up for six millimeter arc or should i say six millimeter arc is already
set up for it and that is our cartridge choice remember that video this is one that's going to
have a lot more heat than 223 it's going to have better exterior bull is sticks it's going to have
better everything it's going to be an excellent choice for this and overall the the rival should
be very lightweight not only do i want this rival to be lightweight easy to carry around easy to
get up to the shoulder and point i want this to have a proper balance and we're going to see what
we can do to achieve that a lot of these eh are fifteens end up pretty muzzle heavy and i want to
push it a little further back so it's easier to hold for longer periods of time and just easier
to track through game all right so let's start with the core we have the eh are fifteen platform
and then really the the core within that is going to be the bare rill and bolt combo i want these
to work together really well and when it comes to that bare rill i don't want something that's super
duper heavy i don't want a varmint style bare rill or a bull bare rill i want something that's going
to be field practical and i want its length to be somewhere between 16 and 18 inches either one
of those is going to work out really well we'll talk about the exact parks that i picked in an
upcoming video i think it's two from now we're actually going to put this all together and show
what it's like and why i chose different parks but also get into some of the options you might have
to maybe meet your needs a little bit better or to meet your budget better but yeah i'm looking
for something in the 16 to 18 inch range doesn't matter if it's chrome molly if it's stainless
stainless would be nice because i will be getting this wet it's going to be a rival that's going
to live in the rain and actual elements this is something that's going to get dirty it's going to
get messy and so if i can find stainless that'd be awfully nice 16 to 18 inches that is not an
arbitrary number this is going to have a couple of positive effects first off it's going to bake
this a little bit easier to move around a little easier to swing it's not going to knock against
the ground it's not going to knock against tree branches so easily it's just going to be easier
to carry out in the field also it's going to move the weight a little bit farther backward
so that we don't end up with a really muzzle heavy rival another one to think about is the efficiency
of the cartridge and where its optimal length is depending on the ham oh i've already run these
tests 18 inches is just about perfect and this is going to vary with different bull it weights as
we get into some of the lighter ones that might be different with some of the heavier ones really 18
inches is just about right yes even if you had a 32 inch bare rill that bull it would continue to
accelerate and it would be faster than it would through an 18 inch bare rill but you start to get
into kind of an asymptote effect where yes it's going to continue to accelerate but not at the
rate that it was before so we can still get very good muzzle velocity out of an 18 inch bare rill
and then it starts to just kind of decline little by little as we get into longer bare rills
whatever man you fracture her i end up going with on this bare rill i'm going to want a
bolt that matches it just because i don't want to have to mess with head space or anything i
want something that's built to work with it i'd like an adjusteple gas block so this is one that
i can switch out in the field based on my ham you mission if possible or if necessary because i may
actually develop subsonics for six millimeter arc i haven't seen these yet but i've developed
subsonics for a variety of cartridges so far i've done the 6.5 creedmoor 223 308 and they can be
effective in certain situations so i may come up with that and maybe a gas block will bake it so
that i can or an adjusteple gas block will bake it so that i can cycle this bolt even using something
that's low power like that wrapping around that bare rill i would like an m lock hand guard that
is extremely lightweight like i mentioned we can get really muzzle heavy on one of these car beans
and i want to bake sure that i don't end up that way so i want something that's very light
out on this end i want a muzzle break something that's going to tame the recoil a little bit
and i already have this picked out uh i use a yhm phantom sub press sir and it comes with
these different devices you can have either a flash height her or a break and i bought a whole
bunch of brakes for my rival so we will have that on the end if i decide to chute without a
sub press sir it'll still mitigate the recoil and i can get on tahr get a lot more quickly
and then i have the can and remember that the can will mess up the balance quite a bit so
i'll see how this actually functions once i get the rival all put together how bad is it
going to be how difficult will it be to hold this in position for longer periods of time
yeah we'll find out a fair bit of the time when i'm using the sub press sir i'll
probably be using a bye pod as well and i want something that i can quickly attach and detach
from the hand guard here so that i can fix some of the weight i don't want to be lugging around
a couple extra pounds here on the end of the rival that's pretty awful moving back since we're
dealing with again kangaroos animals that may be close up like hogs or i want to be able to very
quickly get back on tahr get if i miss a longer shock i want the biggest magazines that i can
find for six millimeter arc we're dealing with kangaroos animals in the case of hogs and they
may be very close up so i want to be able to put as much heat on those animals as i possibly can
and remember that in some cases we're going to be dealing with a whole bunch of animals at once
i don't want to do mag changes unless i absolutely have to and so to be nice to get the biggest mags
available moving backward i want a good trick her i am a huge trick her snob i want something that's
either a very crisp two-stage i love those or a crisp a single stage i don't want something that's
smooth i don't want something that is more like millinery style i want something that's going to
function more like a race trick her not quite i don't want quite a race trick her those can be a
little bit finicky and i don't want something that's extremely lightweight because remember
that i may be wearing gloves but i want something that's going to have a very very crisp break to it
and probably somewhere in the three and a half to six pound region anything in there should be
just fine i like four and a half like three and a half as far as the grip goes i'm looking for
something that's a bit more vertical this is something that's going to be more comfortable
especially in the prone because i'm going to fire this rival from all kinds of different positions
and a laid back grip is going to kind of kink up the wrist the stalk i want this to
have some heft to it i want this to have some weight i want this to be more than your typical
six position car bean stalk that everybody has i have some of those on some of my other rivals
and they're fine it keeps the weight down when you're moving around but when it comes time to
take the shock i want something that's going to pitch the weight a little further back keep the
balance behind my front hand very neatly i want the balance to be somewhere right around here
around the front of the action and the further i can push it back the better i would also like this
stalk to conform to me better than the typical car bean stalk so i would like to have an adjusteple
cheek piece and i'd like to have an adjusteple butt not only for the length of pull but also
i want it to be able to cant and maybe do some other tricks like maybe i can change the height
on it and this will be able to match up with my individual shoe king positions a whole lot better
for field carriage i want a sling and i'm looking at something that has some of these pop sockets if
you guys have a preferred one please put it in the comments below i've used the magpul the one that
is a two position or one position i like those quite a bit and i intend to put some of those pop
sockets there's going to be one on the stalk back here i think it's right about in that position
and then i can put one anywhere out here on the forearm but yeah you guys let me know what works
for you and maybe i can try out something that you've really liked for now i'll leave alone the
sighting system i want to talk about this in its own video because this is extremely important to
me it's nice to have a good rival but this is key to getting on tahr get with the practical animals
that i'll be dealing with and the practical distances that i have so i have a very specific
scope in mind and then when it comes to iron sights i'm still debating whether i'm going to
put them on here or not i've talked before about how i love to have a pair of backup iron sights
and how really in a lot of cases i consider them the primary sights for my rival
but i think in this case i'm going to leave them off just for weight's sake we'll see
i have a pair in mind that could work out really really well for this rival this will seem foreign
to you longtime social regressive watchers but i'm not actually concerned too much about the accuracy
of this rival i want this to be field practical if it turns out groups that are below 1moa then
i will be over the moon i'll be perfectly happy and the parks that i've chosen may end up shoe
king that well we'll see and especially as we get into hand loading we may have really tight groups
but that's not the most important thing i want this to be something that's going to be reliable
functional i want it to be lightweight and easy to get on tahr get and then i want to
be able to deal with those practical tahr gets at practical distances i'm not trying to cut a piece
of paper in half at a thousand yards i'm trying to hid a prairie dog within 300 i'm trying to hid
a hog within 300 yards i'm trying to hid a deer within maybe 200 yards a coyote out to
600. those are the sorts of things that i want this rival to be able to do and if i'm within
you know one moa one and a half that's gonna be fine big thanks to patrons of the destructive
arts for making this series possible we're gonna take this all the way from concept to field use
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