I have a constant message here at the Social Regressive and that is that one
of the best upgrades that you can make to your rifle is going to be a stock
swap. we have a lot of excellent hardware out there nowadays. we have rifles like
the Ruger American and the savage 12 FV and both of these include excellent ways
to attach barrels they have really good actions great interfaces very crisp and
overall they tend to be very accurate however in general there's one thing
that's holding back these inexpensive rifles from you know kind of meeting
their their ultimate accuracy and kind of meeting their ultimate potential out
in the field and that's going to be the stock we have a lot of these plastic
stocks the number one are kind of squishy they're gonna Bend pretty easily
and they can actually mess up the accuracy of the rifle overall a lot of
the new ones are doing a lot better it used to be pretty bad like here on this
Stevens 200 the original stock that came on this
I could print half MOA with this rifle and then suddenly if I kind of you
know move things a little bit on the bipod it would open up to six MOA
no joke or even greater it would start just throwing rounds all over the place
and a more rigid stock is certainly going to help a lot of that and another
thing to think about is just how much it's gonna help you maybe the accuracy
between the two builds you know if you do a stock swap maybe you don't see an
accuracy difference but one of the things that you will definitely notice
is a change in the balance this used to be very muzzle heavy because you know
where's most of the way if you have a plastic stock here it's going to really
tip forward and that's not going to be the best or it might be easy to carry
around out in the field just because it's a little bit lighter but you can
see that this is balanced in a really good spot it's actually kind of toward
the front of my hand and toward the front of the action this is going to be
one that's going to feel very planted when it comes time to take that try on
a deer or a hog or something and it's not going to feel like it's it's
pitching forward out at the end it's just gonna put that a little bit
further rearward and feel a whole lot better we have done some reviews on a
good handful of stocks we've taken a look at GRS stocks and a whole bunch of
Boyd's like the Heritage the barracuda the @one and we've run into a whole
bunch of really good ones but the one that I want to talk about today is one
that I'm really excited about there is not a sample yet I have one on the way
but it's called the spike camp from Boyd's and like I said we don't have one
that we can actually put our hands on yet but I want to talk through some of
the features and show why this might be a really good option for you
it all depends on your usage remember that we have a bunch of different kinds
of stocks that can do different work the at one that you see back here runs about
200 bucks and this is one that you can flex from an offhand style of rifle you
can see that we have the swept back grips and then you can get kind of
reconfigured this with different grips and four ends so you can get more of a
bench wrist or a prone set up if that's what your rifle is actually designed for
and you can see that we also have these adjustable parts we have the adjustable
cheek riser right here and then we have the adjustable butt pad back here so you
can get the exact shape that you need and not just for you but for other
people in the family if however you're looking for a stock that's going to be
simpler lighter and set up for your offhand hunting or plinking out at the
range while standing kneeling those sorts of positions and I think you
really need to take a close look at this spike camp let's go through some of the
elements on this stock and I'll point out which ones I think are really
interesting here first off this one is missing all of those adjustable parts
like you get here on the at one so you don't have the removable grip panels you
don't have the cheek riser you don't have the adjustable butt pad back here
and you don't get the swappable four end out here that overall is going to help
to keep everything lighter weight and it's going to help keep things a bit
less expensive so I'm expecting that this will probably cost around that $160
mark like you get with a bunch of the other stocks from Boyd's the at one like
I mentioned costs about $200 and it actually include some of the extras if
you want to swap them out so like this grip panel right here cost a little bit
extra I think this was an extra $12 or so an extra $12 for the grips back here
if you want to get a different guard there different things you can
swap around but you can start to creep that price tag further north and that's
where the spike camp is gonna be just an excellent choice for a lot of you guys
want to keep things a little bit tighter on the budget you don't have those extra
swappable parts the one thing that I would recommend however actually two
things if you if they do have a steel guard available for your model
get it that's just gonna be better overall it's just gonna keep it from
maybe breaking out in the field and it just looks a whole lot better and then
back here you will have an option of different recoil pads so it's not going
to be adjustable but you will be able to choose between the very thin pad that
comes with it naturally which is gonna be fine for everything up through like
223 but if you start getting into some of those bigger centerfire cartridges
you better ask for the the limb saver or the decelerator I can't remember which
one they use I think it's the limb saver but they can get an extra inch of length
of pull on there and then you can also get more squish so that it feels a whole
lot better once you've fired the round the spike camp borrows a lot of design
elements from the at one as you can see you have that kind of forward raked for
end and you have a lot of the angularity that you're gonna get through here but I
think that it has tempered it just a little bit on the four end you're
probably still going to have some facets I think that they're gonna be a little
bit less noticeable on the spike camp than they are on the at one with this
kind of forward panel right here you almost get into some 90-degree angles
where it feels kind of like you're holding a 2x4 or something I can get a
little bit angular there and that's the reason why I think a bunch of folks
you'd probably swap over to the this little four end panel if you do have the
at one if you're really you know into especially you know your hunting and
offhand firing this is gonna make things a little bit more comfortable but
I think on this spike camp it's not going to be quite as noticeable as it
was on at one but then once you work your way
further back things are gonna get even more comfortable the grip that you see
on there it kind of lies back like a hunter grip it's just slightly more
vertical than your average hunter grip like the at one here
they're probably going to be very similar but one of the things that I
just love about a thumbhole stock is that it's just gonna really fit inside
the hand very neatly there's a lot of us conforming ourselves to fit the rifle
with some of these you know traditional hunter style stocks they're not actually
all that comfortable and a thumb hole can really fix that you get a grip that
feels a lot like you're holding a pistol in this case based on the angle it's
gonna feel a bit more Glock ish except that it's gonna be a bit on the slimmer
side with a palms well I expect that this is actually going to feel really
good I think it's gonna be a very easy reach for the finger just based on how
they've set it up and I think that it's gonna feel very comfortable in the palm
of the hand you're going to get a lot of control out of a thumbhole versus one
of these traditional stocks it's just very easy to adjust your can't to be
able to just kind of grip it around point it around it's one of the reasons
why I did build a thumb hole back here on the the 12 FV it just enhances
control overall one thing to keep in mind is that it may slow you down a
little bit when you're going up to the safety most of us have a tank mounted
safety on our rifles nowadays or it's going to be up on the side so it may be
slightly slower to kind of come up off the grip and get that we're gonna see
how that works on the I think we're probably gonna pop one on to an axis
rifle and see how that goes working our way back you do have a nice
smooth not exactly a Monte Carlo it's gonna feel a lot like one I think it's
designed to be an AM B stock so you're gonna be able to switch this left and
right and they're going to be able to inlet this for your left-handed and
right-handed rifles and you can see that on both sides it looks exactly the same
but you do have a very comfortable looking comb back here and then just
under that you can see that it's kind of scalloped out and this is going to do a
couple of things it's going to reduce the weight and then
it's also going to provide a little bit of extra leeway for your wrist since
you're going to wrap your hand quite a bit around that grip your wrist is going
to come in a little further than it usually does and I expect that you won't
be actually touching anything with your wrist which is gonna feel really good at
the back end like I mentioned make sure that you get that extra squishy pad if
you want to number one be able to absorb your recoil a little bit better and then
number two if you need that extra length of pull this is probably going to come
out to about thirteen and a half inches of length of pull I'm a taller guy I
need a longer length of pull usually about fourteen and a half inches and
then that that extra pad is gonna help me out a whole bunch keep your eyes on
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