Howdy, guys and gals! I'm Kyle Broderick. Welcome to the Social
Regressive the rifle you see on the bench here is the CMMG mark 3 DTR2 -
it's a heavy ar-10 style rifle with a 24 inch stainless barrel that in this case
happens to be chambered for 6.5 Creedmoor i've been testing this with my
own hand loads and coming up with groups that are down around 1/2 MOA and i've
also been doing some tests with some friends we went out with four other
friends and we shot at moving targets actually on the range from 300 to 600
yards we did some closer stuff with another rifle where we could work
offhand but considering how heavy this is we waited till we were back at 300
yards and we just plain shot prone the rifle did wonderfully I really enjoyed
using it and one of the difficulties that I had when I was first outfitting
the the rifle to do some of the testing is what kind of bipod I would put on it
because as I realized when it arrived ok yes it is an M lock handguard
but it's also M lock on the bottom and a direct attach M lock bipod is not so
much a thing out there you can get adapters Picatinny adapters for some of
the bipods that I already have or maybe a quick detach stud sort of adapter but
you're adding extra height under your bipod so you're getting your bipod more
off axis and you're kind of creating this weird balancing act where the rifle
kind of feels like it's balancing on a ball it doesn't feel particularly stable
and of course you're adding extra weight out on the end as you add some of those
adapters and the bipods themselves tend to have quite a big chunk of metal on
the on the top anyway and I didn't really want all that weight out on the
end of this particular right now I just happen to notice this this is a very new
product this is the Leafers utg recon flex bipod and once I saw how it worked
I knew I had to give it a try I've had some utg stuff in the past some has been
hit some has been a miss mostly a hit overall and this has turned out to be
just a really sweet bipod you can see that it comes in two
different chunks you put these on either side of your handguard and it comes in
two different flavors so you have the EM lock right here and you also have key
mod and then you have two different heights as well you have a five point
seven to eight inch and you have an eight to eleven point eight inch model
which you see right here I recommend if you have an ar-15 and you want to be
able to run your taller mags or if you have an ar-10 like this or one of the
new tactical style rifles like the savage evolution get the tall one the
short ones they're probably not even going to really clear the magazine and
the the grip back here your might you might really encounter some interference
where it's bonking into the ground you may not be able to hit targets that
are at a you know at a decent height and if you do work in the field you're also
gonna have difficulties with grass I recommend this tall one right here
this on Amazon costs about fifty five dollars so that's a real steel there are
some other bipods that have this form factor that attach to the sides of a
handrail like this I've seen these in the past I think on Barretts and some
other big rifles and I know that there are some from Vil tour and I think it's
rnd or something and those look very nice as well but this comes in at about
a third the price of the others it's about a hundred seventeen hundred
seventy-five for the other guys and on Amazon this is going for fifty five like
I said I'm gonna put a link down in the description follow that one because
there is a seller out on Amazon that I originally ordered this for and a month
after I had ordered it it turns out that it just gotten lost in the mail or they
had lost my invoice or something and they just cancelled the order and that
was a real pain in the neck so I recommend that you just use the the link
that I have down below that'll get you a more a better price if you decide to
purchase one of these and this is one of these instances where I have really
enjoyed using the bipod but it is a little bit of a strange duck and you're
going to want to listen to this to see if it is the kind of bipod that will
work for you it has some very peculiar things about it
some facets that make it difficult to use in certain situations and perfect to
use in others so you'll want to see how it matches up with the kind of usage
that you actually do before we start looking at the actual controls on this I
just wanted to thank the patrons of the destructive arts out on patreon and
thanks a bunch of guys you actually bought this so we'll take a good look at
it and we'll see if it'll be money well spent for you guys aside from the rubber
feet the screws and the pins everything on this bipod seems to be aluminum this
comes in at thirteen point seven ounces overall for the tall model and then the
short one weighs ten point eight ounces so it's overall very light since we're
missing a whole bunch of the parts that would usually come on a bipod the
mounting blocks on each side these are aluminum right here and they are not
only kind of hollowed out here on the front side but on the back side as well
to save weight the two screws these allen screws right here that attach
everything to the rail on the backside of these there are some small nuts that
rotate up into place to actually lock this in and that's what makes me say
that this bipod is not a quick-detach device the nuts on the back side do not
appear to be staked or anything or otherwise retained so if you remove this
in the field you run a pretty significant chance of actually losing
the nuts back there this is something that you you attach you leave it alone
okay so this block right here you can see it has these slots cut into it and
that's how we can actually change the angle that these legs are sitting at
when you're firing so if you pull down on this little guy right here
you can swivel up to the next kind of locking spot and you can so if you are
firing into some kind of sloped surface in front of you like say a
rooftop or something like that you can get a more flush connection with that
surface and this is going to be for stowing as you lock it all the way
forward you can lock it all the way back and you can lock it in this
three-quarter rear position if you're dealing with a sloped surface that's
facing away from you like again a rooftop a rock something
like that and if you need to adjust each of these legs independently you can do
that of course since each one of these is an independent unit coming down from
here this button right here is going to allow you to extend the legs that's all
you have to do is push this or actually do just lift up the bipod pull out the
leg and that's going to run through a series of notches here on the backside
and it locks into place with this little button right here in order to stow just
press and then the weight of the rifle will come down and attach everything
back up again if you want a midway point you can pull this out and then twist the
the thumb nut right here and then you can get a very precise point for getting
level on uneven terrain now this is a little bit of a strange thing actually
an in testing when it comes to working with the the leg extension here it works
pretty well you know it's it's somewhat easy to pull these legs out but the
trick is if you're working with a heavy rifle like the one that we're dealing
with today this the rifle overall waist I think eleven point three pounds it's a
it's a big heavy rifle without a scope on it but in order to get these legs
down into position you kind of have to use both hands and wrangle things around
pretty well one thing that I might like to see on a later model I I know that
it's kind of late on this one and it does work really well for a lot of
things but one of the things that I've liked about one of the older UTG model
is the one that I have on my ar-15 is that it has spring tension that actually
pushes this leg down into the ground and it makes it a little bit easier to get
to an exact point on the the bipod and lock it down I can just lift up the
rifle and I don't need a second hand to actually you know push or pull the leg
down into position one of the elements of this bipod that
I've really enjoyed are the feet the feet feature a kind of squishy rubber
and these do an excellent job of connecting with concrete with grass down
into the dirt they just seemed to catch on everything which is exactly what I
want I've used some models of bipod before that have some harder rubber and
they just kind of drag over concrete and they don't really connect I want to be
able to load up this bipod when I'm going prone and this one actually
does quite a good job the leg extension controls can be easily flipped around to
face whichever direction you want since this spring that's under this button is
pretty tense I went ahead and left it where I can easily access it with my my
thumb so it's actually facing toward the rear but if you want to be able to more
easily access this instead and leave this under a pinky or something then you
can actually just take the leg off flip it around to the other side put the
other one over here whichever way you want this to be set up take a look at
the stance of the rifle and how solid it appears this appearance is not deceiving
the whole thing feels very stable for a few reasons the two legs open up at a
maximum angle here of 50 degrees and everything is nestled down between these
two points right here it is not sitting up on top of something that's going to
rotate it's sitting down inside this bipod now that you've seen the parts and
the specs what is the actual experience like with the utg recon flex
in a word stable i've never encountered a tactical or field style bipod that
moved as little as this one does and just felt as solid as it does since you
have this very wide stance and you have the whole rifle kind of cradled down
into this instead of sitting up on top of the bipod it all just locks in really
nicely once you get the butt back into your shoulder just right you get your
rear bag in place it's like firing a cannon especially with a big gun like
this one it just doesn't want to move around it resists movement it stays very
very stable and that can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what kind of
work you're gonna be doing you might want this one best or you might want to
avoid it all together if you're going to be firing very precisely at long-range
targets or very small stuff this is the bipod for you
is going to lock down very tightly once you start getting into movement however
especially at closer distances or you're going to be bouncing from target to
target in a dynamic sort of situation the lack of flexibility on here may be a
bit of a hindrance when you move this gun as you're tracking a target or if
you are quickly going from one target to the next again there is no motion so
what you're doing is you're just dragging the legs on the ground from one
spot to the next there's very little movement that you can actually get out
of this so you kind of have to pick a spot or get very small movements and try
to hit like that so at 300 yards in that moving target
challenge this didn't work out all that well once we step back to 600 it was
just fine because there were very small movements to be made but then as you get
closer as things get a little bit quicker and a little bit more
side-to-side it didn't work out quite so well however like I say I've never
encountered anything that sat as solidly as this when it comes to those static
shots some of the other things that you might think about before you purchase
this since most by pods are going to sit on the underside they're going to be
taking up a lot of space down here that kind of aligns with your magazine your
grip and your your furniture back here with this when you actually stow these
legs they stow to the sides of the barrel so it's not actually going to fit
in most cases unless you have a very thick case like one of the big thick
pelicans or you have a drag bag which is what I've been using those are really
the only cases that can handle the width of this so one more thing to think about
there and what since you can't actually quick detach these and you really don't
want to take these things off in the field you're kind of stuck with you know
once you've attached it it's kind of a permanent attachment and if you want to
take things off you're gonna have to go back to your truck someplace where you
can be kind of safe you're not gonna lose parts or back to your bench to take
this off if you decide that you want to put this on a rifle where you need to be
able to strip it off really quickly for maybe off hand firing then yeah this
probably isn't going to be the one for you however keep in mind with that
lightweight you can stow this thing and continue to fire pretty well depending
on the weight of your rifle and it's not going to get as nasty out kind of
pitching the weight toward the muzzle end as you would see with certain other
bipods that have to have all kinds of steel parts or extra adapters and things
like that this is going to keep your weight down quite a bit out of that
muzzle end overall consider the actual kind of firing that you'll be doing
with your individual rifle if it involves dynamic quick transitions
between shots then this is probably not the bipod for you if however you need to
be able to get as steady as possible on any kind of ground including various
pitch surfaces I think this may be the bipod for you thanks for watching if you
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