Howdy, guys and gals! I'm Kyle Broderick. Welcome to the Social
Regressive! Over the course of a few videos were going to take a close look
at the CMMG Banshee pistol. This is not a rifle, not an SBR, you don't have to
fill out special paperwork for this. This has a pistol brace on the back: this is
not a stock, and this does have a five inch barrel up here. There are all kinds
of models within the Banshee lineup on CMMG. I recommend you go check it out.
They have a whole bunch of different chamberings: everything from 5.7x28, 45
acp, this one is 9 millimeter. This is what they call their level 300. This is
their kind of top tier so it has all kinds of extra goodies on it. It has
ambidextrous controls, it has a really nice charging latch, two-stage trigger
and then back here on the back - this is the RipBrace. and that's the focus of
today's video. The Rip Brace is totally unique on the market and it's a really
cool little thing. I think this is going to be a whole lot of fun to use in our
challenges, and those challenges are going to include some kind of multi-
target plinking scenarios where we're gonna try out iron sights and red dot
sights. The Bushnell TRS-25, Ultradyne sights on here, and we're just gonna have
a whole lot of fun. So make sure you subscribe, hit the notification bell, and
watch for some of these upcoming videos. Alright, so let's get down and take a
close look at the brace back here. CMMG has released a RipStock and a RipBrace.
Both of them are designed to be extremely lightweight and to do a pretty
neat little trick right here. This is called the RipBrace because of this. All
I have to do is just pull. I don't have to press any buttons or do anything like
that, and this will extend back to the full position that I need. And then to
collapse it all you have to do is just press the button like you normally would
on an M4 stock or whatever and then it will collapse. And if you also want to
deploy it a little bit more quietly or hit one of these other kind of
intermediary spots you can press the button right here. Let's take a close
look at the parts and features on the RipBrace. As you can see,
this is very compact. They actually come in two different sizes, both the Rip Brace
and the Rip Stock. This is the micro-slash-CQB version if you want that
extra inch of length of pull, take a look at the Standard version. One of the
really cool things about the both the CQB and the Standard is that you
actually do get the buffer tube. you get the buffer, and you get this spring. It's
all one complete package and it's all going to work together really well. This
has a heavier shorter buffer in here because you are dealing with that
shorter tube. And it's also going to be very different from the SB Tactical - and
we're gonna take a look at that here in a second. Overall this is very
lightweight; it's all a very lightweight polymer, it's comfy right across the top.
This has a nice smooth comb all the way across the top, fits the cheek very well,
and since it is mostly polymer with just a few small metal parts running through
here and then some rubber at the back, this weighs quite a bit less than the
outgoing Gear Head Works Tailhook 2, or Mod 2 that they used to have on the
Banshee. This is just very light weight overall, and we're gonna take a look at
that that Tailhook to kind of make some other comparisons as well. Now for some
of the RipBrace's party tricks. You saw when I pulled the stock that it extended
itself without having to press any buttons and that is because the holes
that they have drilled right here at the bottom of the buffer tube are actually
angled they're not completely straight let me get a little bit more light in
here so you can see better those are actually cut at an angle so the little
detent that lives back in here that's
spring-loaded much like how you can close a door without having to turn the
doorknob it'll just kind of bounce over those until you get back to your
furthest back position of course since they are angled that way much like a
door you can't kind of slam it forward the other way this is going to handle
you're just fine and nothing is going to move.
if you want to collapse it press the button and there you go and now here's
the other real party trick you see that little hole right there that is drilled
and tapped and you can put this little bolt in there to set your individual
point of length of pull so if you want to be able to instantly get to the exact
right length of pull for you, all you have to do is set this little bolt in
there and then the stock will not pass that point. so if especially if you have
this standard which is going to be a little bit longer if you want to be able
to hit that exact point when you very quickly deploy this weapon just pull it
back and it's going to hit that spot. this is a brace not a stock so
you can see the aperture where your arm goes all you do is undo this velcro
right here loosen this up a little bit and then stick your arm in that aperture
and tighten it down and this velcro has quite a bit of spring to it it has some
elastic or something in it so it will attach pretty firmly to the arm. I'm
going to go ahead and do this and there it is in position this feels quite tight
the gun is not going to move around much under recoil it's going to stay very
well attached to the arm most of us however will use this like rifle furniture.
we intend to shoulder it. and the rubber back here is going to feel pretty good
and even more important than that is the shape this shape right here how it cuts
in this works much better fitting into the pocket between the bicep and the
pec it's just gonna fit really neatly in here and it's just gonna be a much more
comfortable stock shape than the outgoing Tailhook. and I'll show you
what that looks like the Tailhook Mod 2 - as you can see has more of an oval shape
to it so it's a bit less comfortable when using like a rifle stock but
then when it comes to being a pistol brace this one's pretty cool because if
you do only have the use of one hand it's pretty easy to press the button
swing this arm down and then your arm just kind of fits down in here
and the weight of the gun itself kind of pulls it up to fit and this is one that
I've tested out doing some one-handed firing just to see how it would work
out in the field and I really liked it quite like the feel of this and it is
quite accurate if you're doing you know kind of point firing you can't
actually see down the sights without bending your arm really strangely but if
you're kind of firing from the hip it works really well if you're wondering
why the RipBrace costs more than the SB tactical A3 even though it seems like
the hardware really should be the same, just remember that this comes with a
whole bunch more goodies. first off this is going to include the buffer tube
which has those extra tricks it has the buffer the spring and then it also does
come with a castle nut and the ambidextrous attachment right here so
you get the upgraded features and you actually get all the other parts that
you need in order to make this a full brace that you can attach to your ar-15
make sure you subscribe to the social regressive so you don't miss any of the
upcoming videos we're going to be putting this through a whole series of
challenges we're gonna be doing at longer range we're going to be firing
at close range mixed distance and I think this is going to be up to the
challenge on all of it. and kind of pairing up with this we have those Ultradyne
sights at the front and rear we're going to do a full video on these and
we're going to be testing these on the Scout AR as well so you don't
want to miss out on that yes these sights are pretty expensive but these
are very unique and I think they're gonna do a really cool job out in all
the scenarios that were going to be testing out they should be great at long
range and short range as well now another product we'll be taking a look
at is this the Mantis X you guys may have seen this already it's just a
little thumb drive size product little plastic thing that you can attach to a
pistol a rifle and it's going to tell you what sort of silliness you got up to
before you pull the trigger, as you were pulling the trigger, and then afterward
it's going to show if you know maybe you had some questions about whether your
pistol is inaccurate and there's something wrong with it
or if you're the one that's doing some bad things before that pistol is fired
there is gonna take the the question out and
it's gonna put an answer in there as well and it's gonna be kind of
infuriating I've been doing some dry firing here in the house and I
can see where I certainly have some bad habits that need to be fixed up it
didn't start out too bad but I'm definitely improving the more that I use
this so we'll be able to take some of that data and I'll be able to show you
guys how poorly I pull the trigger when we go out and fire this and hopefully
it'll improve as we go along thanks a bunch to patrons of the destructive arts
for making videos like this possible also thank you CMMG for sending
this over for us to play with we're gonna we're gonna put it through its
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